After the shoot, Gabriel had 17 MiniDV cassettes and about 17 hours of footage to shape into a 90-minute film. The post-production period stretched across the following 15 months.
Alongside other work, he edited the film, mastered sound, built foley, handled color correction, and wrote the soundtrack. The process became a crash course in every hidden layer of finishing a film.
On a small production, the creative roles collapse into one another. Screenwriter, producer, director, editor, sound engineer, foley artist, and composer all became part of the same job: make the film work with what existed.