On Fleek

15/10/19 15:18 Filed in: Post Production | Distribution

Pull the tab on a Sofia Mini Blanc de Blanc and *clunk* aluminum cans in celebration! We just signed with Indie Rights Movies to distribute our film. It’s been a long and crooked road to get here and it’s a little head spinning that soon anyone can buy our movie and watch it. That was always The Goal, but in the unending series of defeats that is moviemaking, you kinda forget that along the way.

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Achievement Unlocked

06/09/18 15:54 Filed in: Post Production | Promotion | Festival Stuff

Looks like we’re an official selection for the Orlando Film Festival 2018. We're a little late announcing because we actually found out last week while we were on vacation in the town of Klaksvik, in the northern Faroe Islands. We barely got the news with the scattershot Wifi in our AirBNB and had to rely on a 2G network that was as slow as two cans connected with string…

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The Emancipation Of Defeat

07/10/17 09:05 Filed in: Post Production | The Big Picture

We finished.

It’s hard to believe we’re here, spent and chugging air, awaiting the judges’ decision. This film was a relationship, with all the ups, downs, hopes, love, dashed dreams, and arguments that are inextricable. There were pinnacles that left us high as a kite and feeling unstoppable with optimism and nadirs that felt like the third ring of Hell.

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Ex Animo

22/04/17 13:28 Filed in: Post Production | The Big Picture

I started the Twitter feed for this movie the day Pedro and I shook hands over hamburgers and vowed to make a movie. I registered the account that evening and dutifully began memorializing the process of making “Clocking The T” with this tweet:

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So, why this blog?

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Tags: Faustian Bargains, twitter

Punching Above Your Weight

16/04/17 09:37 Filed in: Post Production | Pre Production

We finished shooting the movie-in-the-movie sequences yesterday after ramping up through months of stop & start misery and pigfuckery. To be honest, the shoot was so painful it nearly broke me. Had pre-production for principal photography two years ago been this bad there’s no doubt in my mind that we would have pulled the plug on “Clocking the T” there and then.

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Test Patterns

27/02/17 10:42 Filed in: Post Production

We just chugged through a week and a half of test screening the movie. Step one is, of course, getting people to watch it. In L.A., cold calling people to screen your self-financed micro-budget movie is pretty much asking them, "Is it okay if I show you my junk?" Mostly, they just run away.

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Two Drops From Dry

17/10/16 22:15 Filed in: Post Production | Financing | The Big Picture

In the inexorable rush of western civilization to dynamite itself, the United Kingdom voted out of EU membership today. The thing is, we actually financed “Clocking The T” from my international savings account in Britain.

*gulp*

How does a European political debacle have anything to do with a Los Angeles based micro-budget passion project? To make sense I need to back up a little.

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They Think We’re Making ‘Coven’

10/10/16 10:47 Filed in: Post Production

We went to a family reunion in South Dakota back in July and my sister-in-law and her husband asked how the movie was going. I said it was going well but that we’d had a lot of setbacks and we’re slogging through it. That’s when I noticed she was giving me That Look.

Glassy eyed.

Slight nod of the head.

A shadow of a smile.

Every facial tic and body posture that human beings have developed over two million years of genetic evolution to communicate, "You sad fuckin’ loser,” without actually saying it.

When I mentioned it to Erika she said, yeah, she’d gotten the same Look when asked about the movie from a co-worker the week before. I wondered aloud, “What’s up with that? ” And she leaned in and whispered, “They think we’re making 'Coven.'"

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