Howard J. Ford: Caves, Cannibals and Cannes

Howard J Ford has stared down a four-ton boulder held up by a single pebble, sat on funeral pots containing the dead while eating lunch, been lifted off his feet by hundreds of people in Burkina Faso, and walked out of a Mississippi murder house that nobody could bring themselves to buy. All in the name of independent filmmaking.

Howard J Ford is a British filmmaker, director, and cinematographer whose films include The Dead, Never Let Go, The Ledge, River of Blood, Dark Game, Escape, and Bonekeeper — out now on Prime Video & Apple TV. His new action thriller Zipwire is heading to Cannes, and if his track record is anything to go by, it won't be long before it lands on your streaming service of choice.

• Why filming Bonekeeper in real caves in Wales and Herefordshire meant learning to light absolute darkness
• The Burkina Faso incident: filming in a village with no electricity, sitting on pots containing dead relatives, and being swept off his feet by hundreds of people at the end of the shoot
• The haunted house in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where both Howard and his producer felt something was seriously wrong
• The screenplay Howard wrote, which Morgan Freeman once wanted to star in
• Why boredom is the starting point for everything — and how every film begins as a blank void before thousands of images and a story slowly emerge from nothing
• The cannibal on a bicycle who stayed to watch the shoot — and why he was laughing

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