It’s Spring 2000, I’ve just graduated from film school. I’m sitting in front of my computer and I open a screenplay that I’d started working on just before graduation: Wholetrain. I didn’t really have time to work on it then, now I want to finish it and turn it into my first feature film. Reading the first scene, I pause and think to myself:  ‘What a stupid idea, a fictional feature film about writing graffiti on trains. How the hell do you plan to get trains that you can paint on and have them rolling through the city? How do you plan to get shooting permission? Who will back this up in these times of strict anti-graffiti laws and zero tolerance strategies? And – most importantly – how will you pull this off without a significant budget?’ Thus begins this first-person account by director Florian Gaag, on how his film Whole Train got financed, produced and brought to the screen.

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