Take Me Home Photo Call!
In our film Take Me Home, our lead character Thom creates a photobook of his work. He is a struggling, yet talented still photographer. We are partnering with Talenthouse.com to find the 15 images we need for the photobook, which will appear at the top of the film. So if you or a friend of yours are a still photographer and you would like the opportunity to have your image(s) in a feature film, go to Talenthouse.com and enter your photo for consideration. Here is the link to our page, Take Me Home, at Talenthouse.com.For more information on the film, please

Deliverables Are Done!
Today was D-Day aka Deliverables Day for us on Not Since You. After four years of ridiculously hard work, we were able to drop off deliverables of the film and corresponding paperwork to our foreign sales agent. What a phenomenal feeling! A huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I definitely feel a little lighter today. Deliverables are much more than just handing over the film and chain of title etc. It marks the completion of so many hours of thinking and laboring over every detail of the film's existence. And as of today, we can feel confident that we have done everything poss

Testifying on Indie Film
I want to testify. I work really hard to make really good indie films. And I struggle with my colleagues who make really good indie films to get them to see the light of day. I wish it were easy to build audiences but it isn't. And that's okay. I'll keep on working at it. Why is it so hard to build audiences? Well it's really hard to compete with the resources that the studios have. They can funnel money toward advertising and marketing. I can try my might with my limited resources. I can tweet and update facebook and myspace pages and promote the film as much as possible. But do I have a chance?I hope. And my c

Distribution U and the 10 Principles of Hybrid Distro
I attended Distribution U last weekend and learned a great deal about self-distribution. Peter Broderick and Scott Kirsner put on the seminar and they did a wonderful job presenting ideas for how indie filmmakers can take control of the sales of their films. The philosophies they presented work well for films with budgets under $1 million. If your film is close to $1 million and above, it's recommended that you go the more traditional route of distribution. However, I think the following ideas can be used on any kind of film, both big and small.During the semi

AFM & SNL
Things are going well at AFM for Not Since You. We had a great screening in which most of the buyers stayed through the entire film -- often buyers only stay 10 mins or so in AFM screenings since they are running around. So we feel good about that. At the same time, I am coordinating some SNL interviews this week so once again, busy, busy, busy. I attended Distribution U over the weekend too and have some great notes that I plan to share later this week, once the SNL gig is over. So stay tuned!