January 2008 Archives
As per the post above, part of the reason we are going to France is to meet potential funders for our film. (The other reason is to see the best short films in the world and see how it's done, of course)
It struck me that I should probably set up a PayPal account in the unlikely case that any well meaning readers might want to pop a couple of dollars / euros / pounds / yen / bananas into the kitty and get their first Executive Producer credit on a short film.
This might sound cheeky, but, I assure this is not a request for money. People have tried giving me the stuff in the past and it's been turned away. However, I wouldn't turn it away for this. So if the urge grabs you, click on the link in the sidebar.
The next step will be that your name goes on a list and we'll give you an Executive Producer credit on the film.
In the meantime I'm going to get in touch with my clairvoyant, look up the long gone Norris McWhirter and find out what the world record is for the most execs credited on a movie and aim to beat it.
So much stuff makes sense when you're drunk. I doubt this post will make it past lunchtime tomorrow when I wake up and read it back. Until then...
It struck me that I should probably set up a PayPal account in the unlikely case that any well meaning readers might want to pop a couple of dollars / euros / pounds / yen / bananas into the kitty and get their first Executive Producer credit on a short film.
This might sound cheeky, but, I assure this is not a request for money. People have tried giving me the stuff in the past and it's been turned away. However, I wouldn't turn it away for this. So if the urge grabs you, click on the link in the sidebar.
The next step will be that your name goes on a list and we'll give you an Executive Producer credit on the film.
In the meantime I'm going to get in touch with my clairvoyant, look up the long gone Norris McWhirter and find out what the world record is for the most execs credited on a movie and aim to beat it.
So much stuff makes sense when you're drunk. I doubt this post will make it past lunchtime tomorrow when I wake up and read it back. Until then...
We are off to France with our script in search of funds and distribution. On Sunday we go to Clermont-Ferrand for the short film festival.
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We are following in the footsteps of our friends and mentors here.
At the time I started working in the film industry David Mackenzie and Gillian Berrie were embarking on a short film that Gillian had written - Somersault. David and I subsequently ended up working in the same edit facility and that's how we got to know each other. Anyway, they went to Clermont-Ferrand with Somersault and it did very well. The film won a certificate for Masterful Editing if I remember correctly. We have big shoes to fill.
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We are following in the footsteps of our friends and mentors here.
At the time I started working in the film industry David Mackenzie and Gillian Berrie were embarking on a short film that Gillian had written - Somersault. David and I subsequently ended up working in the same edit facility and that's how we got to know each other. Anyway, they went to Clermont-Ferrand with Somersault and it did very well. The film won a certificate for Masterful Editing if I remember correctly. We have big shoes to fill.
I Love Luci is a script for a short film. It's based on an encounter I had with two very amiable drug addicts I met while having a cigarette outside my office.I don't know their names, but lets call them Tommy and Marjory. They had a dog with them - lets call him Luci.
This series of events led me to write a short script that I hope to make into a film very soon. This blog is about that journey, warts and all. I aim to be as candid as possible about the things that happen to me as I go through the process, not in a retrospective way either, but as I live and breathe it. This means that anything you spot as a short-minded act of idiocy on my part is more than welcome as a comment - even if your first reaction is that I shouldn't be writing about this, send it in.
As you join me the script, I Love Luci, has been well received by everyone who's read it, apart from a competition I entered it into - they rejected it, my one big kick in the teeth so far.
Resigned to the thought that this is still a good story and one worth telling I'm ploughing on regardless.
I'm now on my 7th draft of the script (something you're not meant to tell people by the way). I have a wonderful fledgling producer, a fantastic production company, tentative interest from a major funder and the terrifying prospect that this might just all work.
I'm waiting for the ground to open up.
