I'm Finally Making My Own Movie - "PAPER PLATES"

[PoopaPapaPalps]

You still made a freaking movie! For all of my criticisms of modern films, you actually went out there and DID it! Poured your heart into creating a story. You've got guts, man I applaud you for it!

Echoing Psab keel , it's still an amazing accomplishment! More than most will ever do. I apologize I wasn't able to go. I was working that day but I was hoping to at least go and meet you in person.

Any more festivals coming up?

I really appreciate both of your support. This thing has been trouble from inception to now. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried if I had just majorly messed up my life by doing this.

At the moment, no. It's a tough game out there for independent features to get into festivals. Shorts have a far easier time when it comes to selection. Although, I have 94 more festivals to wait on getting rejection letters from for the remainder of this year, and into early next year. I can only hope.

 

[Psab keel]

Well, we're rooting for you!!!

 

[joberg]

Sorry you had to go through that ordeal...but one negative experience doesn't make a negative life! The "festival experience" has opened your eyes to what it's all about (you've hit the nail on the head with your various descriptions of characters and behaviors).
Only your real friends will have the guts to tell you the truth about your movie...not strangers that you'll, hopefully, never see again. That's the worst experience any movie director has to go through; reminds me of the numerous festivals we had attended in Europe when my father, and his team, were presenting their latest short. It's the same species; spewing empty non-committal niceties to a T.

It's true that, to make a movie, any movie, the way you did feels like giving birth; to say that it's visceral and personal is an understatement!
To find like-minded people who will back you up a 100% during that process is rare: "Hey guys, how are you feeling about giving me 10 hours of your time this week-end so we can shoot my film?" Not a lot of these people are around nowadays...and when you find them, please, keep them close: they're precious

This is a teaching moment and you're stronger and wiser for it. Now you know that part of the game and your "Baptême du Feu" was hard, but necessary. On to another script/project and armed with extra knowledge about the process.

Cannot wait for another one of your short

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

If anyone on the boards is in Des Moines, IA, my movie will be playing at Interrobang Film Festival at the downtown library screening room on June 28th at 11am. There's a time allotted to me afterwards for a talk-back session, so anyone want to be bummed/entertained by the awful production stories of this movie, come on by!

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

One of my lead supporting actors, a big-hearted and highly regarded individual around my neck of the woods, has passed suddenly ereyester. He kept the theater and performing arts scene alive and vibrant here for more than a decade when, by any measure, such a thing couldn't survive here.

I'm trying to organize a free showing of our movie, one of his last and most proud projects he was involved with, for his friends and family at our new local boutique cinema as a tribute to the man. If anyone can, please pitch in to the gofundme I've set up. Anything would really mean a lot to me.