Bev (her name in the film and in real life) came down from Minneapolis for the scene. Her granddaughter (middle) and daughter (right) joined her as extras. A three generation adventure! I wanted to share a couple of short, sort of recent film related adventures. The Sedona Festival director called to invite us to their [...]
A bunch of people WE DON'T KNOW filing in to see our film in Sedona. We just premiered at the Sedona International Film Festival. We didn't win the 'Audience Choice Award'..but we were RUNNER-UP! "A fraction of a percent" (festival director quote) behind the Dutch film, Adios Amigos but ahead of The Insult, an Oscar [...]
Another film-associated trip to Minnesota. Minneapolis this time. Bad sound can bump a viewer out of a film much more easily than bad picture and why we just spent 3 days in Minneapolis working with an audio engineer. Another thing we've never before done! In the last post I told you about sending off the [...]
An ocean break during a mountain bike ride. A collarbone break after a mountain bike ride. (not pictured: 3 broken ribs and a broken finger). Isn't there some saying about how most accidents happen within 50 feet of the house? Riding up to the house at the end of a mountain bike ride, [...]
The film is down to 1 hour 48 minutes. That's 12 minutes (a lot of frames (17,280) shorter than last time we talked) and we still have all the scenes except the one casualty from last month. In 3 to 4 weeks we should be able to lock the picture ('picture lock' in film speak).* [...]
Our rough cut is now a smoother rough cut but it's still about 2 hours long so we're trying to figure out how to shave off 20 or 30 minutes which is not a lot if you are talking about driving from NY to LA but is a lot if you're talking about a film. [...]
We were using the frankentrike Kathy's 84 year old dad Howard had built a few years ago from a 1976 Yamaha 500 and a Chevy rear end as a key prop for the scene. It was one mean machine. We'd used it in a couple other scenes (where it didn't have to be driven come [...]
Kathy here. Every once in a while I'll come across a film festival that feels like a good fit and I'll submit one of my short films. Now and then one will be selected and I'm always surprised! This spring I came across a festival soliciting funny films made by women. I mentally scrolled through [...]
Kathy, Harry and Vince at Harry's house back in February after 120 pages and 10 hours of going through the screenplay page by page. Amazing editor, Harry Keramidas, (Back To The Future), had a great piece of advice for us the other day, "Taking a few weeks away will also give you a better perspective [...]
