David Von Ancken, Seraphim Falls

David Von Ancken actually got the two actors on his wish list for his feature directorial debut, Seraphim Falls: Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson. Von Ancken discusses the pressures of filming entirely outdoors, the route necessary to working with A-list stars and what happened when his original leading man abruptly split. The native New Yorker had first scored in 2001 with the short film Bullet in the Brain adapted from a Tobias Wolff short story. That won him the attention of Oz creator Tom Fontana which led to directing assignments on TV (Cold Case, The Shield). Meanwhile, he wrote - with Abby Everett Jaques - this gritty revenge western, which was filmed on location in New Mexico and at a waterfall outside Portland, Oregon.

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