About the Young Actress

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Trinity, an active 2 1/2 year old girl (DOB 17 Sept 2006). Currently in preschool.

Her love for drawing prompted us to write about her in this film.


Given the nature of our script, which required many on-location shooting and re-enactments by our central character, a 7- to 9-year old would have been an ideal actress for this film.

However, we were willing to give our dear daughter a try, despite her young age. We understood her moods and temperament well, and hence were able to schedule our filming to suit her. It usually worked when we gave her a task to do and we filmed her in action, without rehearsals and no fixed results in mind. Many times we ended up with long raw footages, which we had to carefully edit. However, there were several scenes in the final film which were first-version footages. Somehow, the first was also the best.

With our little girl, every scene was as real as it could get. Everything happened spontaneously. In particular, the final 'happiness' scene where she played with fountain water touched our hearts every time we viewed it. That was a first-version footage. Pure joy, pure freedom.

Given the short time frame, unpredictable weather and our various schedules (and moods!), we would say that everything went pretty well. It was daunting at times, especially when we had to shoot and re-shoot the same scenes, but the fruits were rewarding.

Most importantly, we all had fun!