Personal Production Note by FRANCIS KUZLER

Working on After the Apocalypse as Line Producer was a blast. It gave me the opportunity to incorporate both organizational and creative skills while being intimately involved in bringing a friend’s, Yasuaki Nakajima’s, vision to life. Of course, as an independent, low-budget, narrative feature, we encountered producing obstacles that you’d hope to never see on any production. More importantly, the most striking thing to me now is that this movie could never be made today. We shot the movie before September 11th, and we were given access to places that we would never be today. And by that, I’m not simply pointing to the government lock-down mentality that is encroaching on our freedoms law-by-law, or to the fact that all of our locations are gone, but to the change in sensibilities in New York and abroad. I truly think that this movie is one of those that came in just under the wire of an old age. It’s allegories, story and style (with so much credit going to Yas and DP Carolyn Macartney) truly convey a sense of a different world..