Every Saturday morning in London, young Christopher gathered his amateur actor friends.
He chose University College London because it had a film society with cameras.
His entire budget for the full-length feature was only six thousand dollars.
His friends all had day jobs, so they could shoot only on weekends.
Each week they shot about fifteen minutes of footage, and no more.
Christopher paid for it all with his salary from making corporate videos.
They rehearsed every scene for hours to save the expensive sixteen millimeter film.
Finishing the black-and-white thriller Following took a whole year.
Christopher said, "I wrote the story around what we already had."
The little film won prizes at festivals, and Hollywood noticed.
On a long drive, his brother Jonathan had told him about a strange story idea.
Next, Christopher would turn that idea into a film that runs backwards.
🎙 Getting the mic ready…