You're listening to In The Studio from the BBC World Service,

closely following the various stages of a creative project

on its way to a global audience.

For over 25 years, I've made programs for the BBC about film,

speaking to directors, actors and screenwriters, and also reviewing films.

But I never thought that one day I would be following my own experience of being in a film.

What you are going to do is possible shock yourself

because you're going to see a side to yourself

and you don't know where it's came from.

That's really interesting.

We've all got it, everybody has a breaking point.

And I certainly never thought I'd wind up on the red carpet in Venice during the film festival,

not as a journalist, but as an actor in a very small part,

in a movie set in the Highlands of Scotland,

and directed by one of the instigators of the surreal and often discomfortingly comic cinema movement, known as the Greek Weird Wave.

In so many ways, the whole thing felt like a battle.

Independent art house filmmaking in a remote location with a largely non-professional cast.

An unconventional costume drama with a tight budget

shot on vanishingly rare 16mm film rather than digital

during some of the worst weather ever to hit the west coast of Scotland.

Ten people have been rescued from their cars by helicopter after landslides blocked roads in Argyle and Butte.

Weather warnings for heavy and disruptive rain cover much of Scotland.

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