Conquistadors: The Stories: David Wallace (Director)
Worst moments:
Explaining to the crew that the soft surface they had slept on, in a cave in the Sierra Madre was in fact a centuries old layer of goat droppings.
Apologising to the local fire crew for not needing them to simulate rain for a "special" shot, after they had struggled to get their fire tender onto the top of a 11,000ft pass in Mexico. The reason they were not needed being, of course, that it was already raining. In fact it was coming down like stair rods and had already trashed the sound kit and reduced our £40,000 widescreen digital camera to the level of a home movie camera.
Half an hour later I was apologising again as the rain had bogged them down on the mountain and they had to wait three hours for the pass-top village's only tractor to drag them out.
Wishing the crew a good nights sleep as we tucked into our sleeping bags at 17,000ft in sub-zero temperatures on the side of a glacial valley in the Andes. But that wasn't the reason to feel bad, no - that was because all round a full-blown Inca festival with 40 brass bands played through the night and the fireworks team from hell rocked our tents with mortar rounds every quarter of an hour. The only positive side to this was that when my alarm woke me at 3 am to prepare for the trek to the glacier, there was no need to rouse the others - no one else had slept.