Pleased to report that in its first film festival appearence at the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival in Melbourne, Florida, Beneath the Blue won the MIFF’s “Independent Spirit Award” plus two other individual awards — Best Cinematography (Lila Javan) and Filmmaker of Distinction (Michael D. Sellers).
It was quite a whirlwind of a week-end and many thanks [...]
Archive for November, 2009
BTB Nabs Three Awards at Melbourne Film Festival
November 27, 2009First Screening!
November 7, 2009We’ve had our first screening and I have to say it was nerve-wracking for me, especially because the HD Master was fresh from the lab and we’d had no time to pre-screen it so I was living in fear of a technical glitch but thankfully nothing like that happened — it screened beautifully, lots of [...]
We Have a Movie!
November 4, 2009Well, I am pleased to report that today (yesterday, technically), at 5:14PM, we officially delivered the baby — Beneath the Blue came forth into the world as a complete (if not “completed”– more about that later) movie. I have not slept more than two hours in any of the last four days …….nor has [...]
Next Day – Nov 1 (actually Nov 2 12:44am)
November 2, 2009Disaster strikes.
I kid you not. I haven’t slept more than four hours a day in the last ten days. We worked our way through the whole weekend. Halloween? Not. College football? Not. USC got absolutely hammered by Oregon and I only heard about it the next day……Is there a World [...]
October 31 — 11:40PM
November 1, 2009Well, it’s Saturday night, Halloween — we’re still here at 11:40 and looks like another 2-3 hours before we can break, then we have to start up at 8am tomorrow and even then it looks like this will spill over onto Monday before we finish. Our actual deadline for delivering to AFM for the [...]
