Believers

Good video hook-up with one of the UK producers on Friday. Pip Piper (Blue Hippo Media) is someone I count as a good friend. He's a tireless entrepreneur and relentless optimist. Pip has built his production house up from scratch, and is now recognised as one of the leading lights in film production in the Birmingham area.

It was Pip who optioned my novel back in 2002, and over the last seven years we've been through all the highs and lows together as the project has variously looked ready to go or else dead in the water. But together we've always believed that there's a certain mojo about The Insatiable Moon which will get us there in the end.

We're now working together on another project as well, about an American climber Gary Hemming who pulled off an amazing alpine rescue in France and became an overnight sensation, but ended up shooting himself.

Anyway, it was as always good to talk to Pip, who reaffirmed that we were going to be shooting Moon in November, whatever may happen between now and then. Those who carry the burden for a feature film need a few friends to keep the belief strong at the time when it flags.