MDR shooting with firmm®
29. April 2008
Nina Cziczek / firmm
On Sunday, April 20th, the German Television MDR´s (mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) did some filming in our office. The leading character of this broadcasting is ‘Ilse’, a man dressed as an elderly woman. Together with Robert, her companion, she travels through Andalusia and also encounters firmm in Tarifa.
After a long period of strong wind with few trips, it was a nice diversion for all of us! Instead of the usual 2 to 3 person filming team, there was a crew of 12 that invaded our office that quiet Sunday morning and caused some commotion.
After the cameras were placed, Katharina gave detailed information to “Ilse” and her team about the foundation, about herself as president as well as our daily boat trips.
Afterwards the shooting team and all our volunteers went to our meeting room where Katharina gave us (the volunteers who acted as the ‘tourists’) an introduction about the Strait of Gibraltar and the animals which are living there.
This took time to get everything set up and us on our places.
The boat trip was planned for the following Tuesday afternoon with Katharina as guide, the volunteers and the whole shooting team. Unfortunately, the sea was quite rough at the beginning, so that some of us became quite wet. Anyway, this added to the good mood on board. After a short time we saw some Pilot Whales and a school of Bottlenose Dolphins which have been joining our boat for quite a long time.
As if the animals knew that there was a shooting team on board they made a grandiose show in front of the boat with a lot of terrific jumps, tailslapping and spyhopping. Roughly speaking: the dolphins did a very good job and certainly contributed to the film in a special way.
If you are interested in watching the TV documentation: It will be broadcasted on the May 10th on MDR, at 20:15. The title is ‘Das kommt mir spanisch vor’.