Liberty Global Short Film "A Report of Connected Events” From Post Panic

A Report Of Connected Events is a branded content film written and directed by Mischa Rozema and produced by PostPanic. Celebrating the power of storytelling, it was commissioned by Nuna9 on behalf of their client, Liberty Global. Filmed in Paris, the piece explores iconic moments in film and television history, blurring the lines between our reality and some of our favourite stories.

If you love storytelling anywhere as much as PostPanic does, A Report of Connected Events is sure to give you goosebumps.

Quotes from the Director

We decided we wanted to create an ode to story telling from the start. Storytelling is something I’m very passionate about so this immediately became a very personal project for me. I’m a firm believer in the power of stories. They define who you are as a person. They can teach, warn, change your view and let you experience your full emotional scale in ways reality rarely can. More over, we actually all end up being a story ourselves. Life would be very boring without them.

With all the creative freedom we were granted, I wanted to create a genuine cinematic and emotional experience. I looked to actively engage the viewer with contemporary visual stories, which are imbedded in our collective psyches. — Rozema

I’m a huge architecture geek so I always have a good collection of environments I look to use for future projects. These particular locations in Paris have been on my radar for a long time and finally I found a story that would fit them perfectly. The environments were written as lead characters, with the human characters often just being visitors. In this way, these were the perfect theatres for our stories to come to life.

I also chose Paris to disorientate the viewer. Most of the depicted films/tv series are anglo-american by origin, I looked to create a different vibe. We even added lots of reference to asian TV and cinema throughout the city to accomplish that. We are transported to a world in one city. An alternate reality. A place where stories can come to life. — Rozema

This is a film all about references, most of them being my personal favourites. However, they also had to be visually interesting, fitting the main narrative, and we needed a good variation in genres. In this way, it almost becomes a fun game. We’ve made some references really obvious and others quite hard to find. I think only few people will get them all!