When André told me we had 4465 views of the trailer for ”Ensam genom Iran – 184 mil av tillit” i felt stunned. Wow, that sounded like a lot! I checked my facebook page, and from there the trailer had been shared 172 times. I have no experience of filmmaking, so I asked André if this was good. He replied that it indeed was. The purpose with the trailer is mainly to raise funding from for instance Swedish Televison, so that we can produce the documentary. André mentioned a trailer that had 1000 views of the trailer, and that received funding. He also mentioned a great exception, a trailer with 97 000 views. So, 4465 was really good. I also checked with my sponsor, Bergans, and they replied that this was really good.
That was before we released the trailer with the english subtitels, named ”Alone through Iran – 1144 miles of trust”. It quickly raised to 8200 views, receiving more attention that the Swedish version that was then up to a bit more that 7000 views.
Now ”Must See Iran” published the English trailer on their facebooksite. When I checked it, 1765 people had shared it. It had 49 837 views at that moment.
Wow. I don´t know what to say. I am completely overwhelmed. I feel blessed, I dont understand, and yet – very happy. Could what I did really receive so much attention? Does it affect peoples hearts? ´
I know it does. Yet so overwhelming, so difficult to understand.
While all this is happening, I am cleaning our small garden of weed, preparing and being anxious for the next lecture, and the one after that at the same time. I am worrying about all the things I have to do, being a bit angry about them since it is wonderful weather right now and I would rather take time off, spending my time kayaking, running and relaxing and just doing fun things. Everyday life is taking its time, continuing as usual, besides all these wonderful things going on on the net.
Maybe I should just let go, let go of the grip I am trying to have on life, just follow the stream where it takes me and discover all the marvels of life, not planing, not thinking, just acting. One day I will. I am doing it partly. I want to do it fully. I am almost here.