The Moo Man blog

Steve’s favourite cow Ida is becoming more and more integral to the film. She’s becoming such a star that we might need to change the title to “Ida and the moo man”. Then again Steve the farmer would never be free of her agent demanding a bigger trailer and dressage room for Ida. One whif of success hey!

The Moo-Man website has had a refresh and hopefully we can now start updating it much more often and will add some great apps to show where the film is screening and a ‘demand it’ option. Stay tuned.

Finally, more than a year later than we planned, editing of The Moo-Man is really shaping up and we will soon be there with a finished film! It has taken much, much longer than we thought but it’s worth the extra work. Steve the farmer, his trials and his tribulations on his farm and with the animals is a wonderful, heartwarming adventure with more than a touch of grit. Hopefully we can start thinking about a cinema release date soon. 

We are putting some more preview scenes from the film online. Here is the first and it’s a bit of a fave: Ida does Eastbourne:

Ida is Steve the farmer’s favourite cow. Steve being Steve, when he wanted to start a milk round in Eastbourne, he decided to promote the new round in a novel way. This is what happened when Steve decided to give Ida the new job as the farm’s head of PR.

Taken from our upcoming feature film “The Moo Man”. All copyright belongs to Trufflepig Films, England.

Steve Hook featured on The Food Programme on Radio 4 this week with a special on Milk. A big push for everything Raw Milk, a great story. Listen on iplayer here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yhv32

Took time off from editing recently to stake some stills and while down the farm saw my first case of the Autumn phenomena of milk fever (they always get it on the Archers so I thought it was a myth). A couple of bottles of calcium on a drip and this girl was soon up and about but you wouldn’t have thought so at the time. When we first found her she looked near gone, though it didn’t stop the calf having a tug at her teats in the hope of breakfast. Until the 1930s it was often fatal, according to James Herriot, but nowadays if you catch it in time, the cow can make a spectacular recovery.

“Gordon Bennett, she’s only gone and had it on her own”, was Steve’s reaction to discovering a cow had given birth ‘solo’ down on the marsh, catching him out more than a little. All part of today’s editing of the Moo-Man.