An introduction of sorts

This blog will follow the sometimes frustrating, sometimes rewarding and always interesting struggle to complete a feature film completely independently with no major financial support AND in one of the worst economic slumps in American history.

Our current situation is this:
1/3rd of the screenplay has been shot, transferred and edited together and a date has been set for shooting the rest of the film in the August of 2009. We are also several thousand dollars short of our budget. So with a little less than 5 months to go, the production is quickly spiraling into very stressful territory.

So why bother? As the writer and director and creator of this film, I can only compare it to having a child or a husband or wife. You stick it out through thick and thin. You wouldn't abandon a relative in sticky situations and these characters, this cast, this crew IS a family to me. There are ideas and emotions in this film that need to come out of me at some point and they need to be expressed in THIS way, on THIS film stock and with THESE collaborators. David Lynch, while making the notoriously difficult "Eraserhead", once said that he was so frustrated by the stop and start process (it took him 7 years to complete the film) that he at point contemplated sculpting models of the actors out of clay, building miniature sets and just stop motioning the rest of the action. Needless to say, at this point...I can relate to that. And I'm only 2 years deep!

As for this blog, you can expect something in between stressed out journal ramblings and an official home for the film with photos, video clips and a way to donate to the production via payal if you are so inclined.

Thanks for reading!