TIME IS FLYING BY
Because things are so far behind on our film schedule it's looking unlikely we'll make the Cannes submit entry date in March. The new plan is to aim for Toronto.
According to about.com:-
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) ranks among the most prestigious international film festivals in the world. For ten days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals and media watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new talent.
Sounds good - even if North America is less exotic than the South of France!
I am waiting to view an animation created by my lovely editor John. It will be fun to see it and if it works then they'll get done for all the main stars of the film. For now though, we're on hiatus again...Dealing with holidays, house moves and other stuff called "life"...I can't wait to get back at it and finish it though, I have to say.
Because things are so far behind on our film schedule it's looking unlikely we'll make the Cannes submit entry date in March. The new plan is to aim for Toronto.
According to about.com:-
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) ranks among the most prestigious international film festivals in the world. For ten days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals and media watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new talent.
Sounds good - even if North America is less exotic than the South of France!
I am waiting to view an animation created by my lovely editor John. It will be fun to see it and if it works then they'll get done for all the main stars of the film. For now though, we're on hiatus again...Dealing with holidays, house moves and other stuff called "life"...I can't wait to get back at it and finish it though, I have to say.
We are nine days into the edit of the SYBD film. It's been like walking through quicksand if I am being honest. I am not sure if it's easier or harder than I imagined but it's been right-challenging none the less. Though, in saying that, I am not complaining. Quite honestly, it's been, in many ways, the most rewarding days of the year. After two years of bits and pieces of filming - it's finally making that transition from "random footage" to something resembling a film. A real live film. In October of 2006 - I hatched this crazy idea to drive across America and meet these people and now it's becoming something else.
It's been a ridiculously long time since I updated this blog. There was little happening for months and now it's all hands on deck. I've literally spent more than a week (straight) going through all tapes again - and logging the footage and boxing it up to go over to my lovely editor John's place. I think I am up to 23 or so tapes thus far...
It's been super fun re-doing the road trip vicariously through the footage. All the great sights I saw, the wonderful people I met, it makes me want to hop a plane and do it all again. It really does.
It feels incredibly exciting now. The end is in sight (at least to have a "rough cut" of the film by the end of the year (all being well)...Thanks to Stefan's handy notes. Bless him for being my unbiased eyes on the project. 
Well on a whim last night I suggested my friend Kenneth shoot me on the Clyde. Much of the movie I can picture but how my role comes into - I still have trouble seeing. I don't fancy being "on camera" much, and would prefer not to be in the film at all, but this is really 
It was a perfect night to walk along and talk about the site and the project and the future. In many ways last night was the exact vision I'd imagined for the opening of the movie. Me, this Californian girl walking along the Clyde in Glasgow. Telling a little bit about how I ended up here.
Last night, over dessert, Kenneth asked how long I've been filming...and I said, "October 2006 was when I began the film" but really if you add up the actual filming time of the film, it's less than three month's worth. It's just that in true documentary form - it's been spread out over more than a year-and-a-half. 