Ask the Author: Martin Granger
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Martin Granger
Coughing. Coffin.
Martin Granger
An Ian M Bank's Culture ship. Observe and absorb.
Martin Granger
Martin Cruz Smith The Girl from Venice
Iain M Banks Excession
Robert Harris Conclave
Iain M Banks Excession
Robert Harris Conclave
Martin Granger
By the stories I have acquired in many years of documentary filmmaking
Martin Granger
Told to me by a Hollywood producer Write it fast and write it bad. Put it away for a while then see what you need to rewrite. (Otherwise you may never start)
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Meeting interesting people during the research
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Fortunately don't have that problem
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All my books are based upon mysterys in my own documentary filmmaking life
Martin Granger
Currently writing my third novel 'Drugs to Forget'. Inspired by a film I made in Zimbabwe some years ago. This time television documentary maker Nathalie Thompson is researching Ebola and Alzheimer's disease and their possible connection to her film on bio terrorism.
Martin Granger
Manila Prison is a dire place; stone floor, barred cages. My film crew had arrived there to record a pre-arranged interview with the notorious pirate Emilio Changco. He was incarcerated for stealing ships the size of skyscrapers in the South China Seas and would make great TV. Unfortunately he didn’t turn up. No he hadn’t changed his mind, he had been shot dead ‘trying to escape’ just before we got there.
The film had been commissioned by the BBC, a hard-hitting investigation of modern piracy in the Far East. Things had been going well, we had managed to film some Pirates shooting guns in the air and telling us how they used their small outrigger canoes to capture enormous vessels. But this was different. We were told that Changco had forty bullets in him. This was a surprise as he had a limp and had to use a cane, not one for a quick escape. The worry, of course, was that he was shot to stop him telling us his story. We already had suspicions about authorities in the area actually hiring these Pirates. Suspicions but no proof, so the programme was transmitted without that part of the story.
Years later, my filming days over, I decided to write the story as fiction. Manila Harbour is published by Red Door.
The film had been commissioned by the BBC, a hard-hitting investigation of modern piracy in the Far East. Things had been going well, we had managed to film some Pirates shooting guns in the air and telling us how they used their small outrigger canoes to capture enormous vessels. But this was different. We were told that Changco had forty bullets in him. This was a surprise as he had a limp and had to use a cane, not one for a quick escape. The worry, of course, was that he was shot to stop him telling us his story. We already had suspicions about authorities in the area actually hiring these Pirates. Suspicions but no proof, so the programme was transmitted without that part of the story.
Years later, my filming days over, I decided to write the story as fiction. Manila Harbour is published by Red Door.
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