To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll.

It was a tough film [Selling Isobel] to make anyway, because we had limited resources.

We thought by setting the film [Selling Isobel] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to a wider range of young women who would see this cautionary tale and say, Hang on, I've got to think twice about what I get myself into.

We took a fair bit of liberty with the story, but the basic premise of the film [Selling Isobel ] - a girl is kidnapped on the streets of a city and held captive for three days and two nights while various men show up and exploit her - is the exact truth.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie [Selling Isobel] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.