So, I'm still busy promoting A Thousand Words: Bloodline. Just a little update about that. I went to Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville KY and spent a day there rubbing elbows with some celebs from some of the great horror movies I grew up on. Got to hang out with Gunnar Hansen for a bit and Marilyn Burns who gave me some tips on filmmaking. I'm planning on going to Cinema Wasteland in October to continue my tour of promotion for the movie. I'm actually planning to spend a weekend there to try to get the word out as much as I can.

While I'm still doing all this promotion and stuff for the movie I'm also working on another project now. My partner Jerod Brennen conceived an idea for a feature where we take 12 short films and put them together as a feature once they have all been shot. The 12 films will be directed by 12 different directors. The concept is a mix between Quantum Leap and Nightmare on Elm St. so it sounds like a lot of fun.

I'll be directing Dream 3 which is a slasher segment so it's right up my ally. I'll be in pre-production for two months before we begin shooting in November, so I'm gonna be tied up with this now. It's funny because I've gone years with making more movies than we have this year (since we've not shot anything this year at all) and never have I been this busy. I thought I would enter ATW: Bloodline into a couple (40+) festivals and then move on. This festival thing has sort of taken over.

I'm also really busy running Columbus' chapter of IndieClub. I took over in March and it's been getting more and more involved ever since. We finally heard back that the deal we worked out with WOSU and Columbus IndieClub has gone through and the local station will be playing several local short films, something that has never happened before. Ultimately I'm hoping this leads to an awareness of the local film culture here and that there is a need for people to support us.

With all this movie stuff taking over more and more I've fallen out of doing any graphic or extra video or website work. I'm hoping I'll get something to work on soon as I need the money if I'm gonna be able to pay for printing up posters and DVDs to take with me on these trips. What I'm really having a hard time with is getting the rest of the cast and crew to help out with promoting the movie. Most people have this mentality that once the production part is over then they don't need to really push for support. This is a mindset I'm trying to change as well through sharing my experiences.

A lot of positive things have happened to me while I've been going to these places. I got to speak on a couple panels at The Indie Gathering in Cleveland last month and met some really cool people who gave me a lot of worth while advice, plus I made some good networking connections. The award we won is helping us to get some attention too which is really good, but still it doesn't seem to get folks interested in helping to promote the movie in the festival and convention circuits.

This feature of ours is gonna rock. The idea is almost unique, I say unique because there is an international film that involved Wes Craven that had something like 22 directors and 24 writers. It's been voted highly a lot on IMDB and that bodes well for us since it's something some people are a little scared of. The hardest thing is getting through all the egos at the table. Most of the directors are cool and very accommodating and very pumped about this. If it works it will get a lot of attention and could even make some money back. A couple of people are still making the road traveled a bit difficult because of fears and ego like I said, but hopefully we will get them to jump on board all the way or they will leave.

Right now all I can worry about is my segment which begins pre-production on Monday. Wish me luck!