Important Announcement–New URL

I started this blog quite a while ago, more or less on a whim — to try and ‘live blog’ my way through the making of a movie that was then called “Way of the Dolphin”.   In April of 2009 we changed the name of the movie to “Beneath the Blue” — so, it makes [...]

A Christmas Eve Message..

Last night our family began gathering, as we do every year,  at the home of my 83 year old mom in Niceville, Florida.  My four kids have arrived — Patrick and Michelle from California,  Pilar from Texas, and Kaitlyn from Florida. My wife and best friend Rena is here; my sister Valerie; my cousin Curt [...]

RANDOM (GUSHING) THOUGHTS ON AVATAR

When’s the last time you came out of a movie and just wanted to get in line and see it again right then?  When’s the last time you wanted to shout to the people in line waiting to get in –it’s INCREDIBLY AWESOME, PEOPLE?  That’s how strongly I felt when I walked out of the [...]

Paul Wesley’s Rising Stardom….

This isn’t too terribly serious of a post, but ….. check out the links below to articles about the BTB’s Paul Wesley being spoted as one of the stars attending last night’s Laker game. The fact is, Vampire Diaries is a huge hit and Paul’s role as one of the leads in that [...]

BTB Nabs Three Awards at Melbourne Film Festival

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 [...]

First Screening!

We’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!

Well, 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)

Disaster 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

Well, 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 [...]

Apologies and a Quick Summary

Thanks for all the comments and encouragement. There have also been a few expressions of concern because it’s Friday and I’ve only gotten the ‘live blog’ up through Monday. Folks, it’s turning out to be even more intense than filming and I’m just not getting it done (the blogging). So here is [...]