While rejections from film festivals are always something of a kick in the guts, it’s gratifying to continue to get awesome feedback on the quality of the film. This, a handwritten note from Kyle McKinnon, Lead Programmer for the Alabama Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival: “This is a strong film with a very clever twist ending. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Be Careful’
More Great Feedback on our Short Film Be Careful…
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Alabama Film Festival, Be Careful, Film Festivals, short film, short film festivals, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Congrats Lisa Chappell – winner at Qantas TV Awards!
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, Lisa Chappell, Qantas Film & TV Awards on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is a belated shout-out to my leading lady, Lisa Chappell, who took away the prize for Best Supporting Actress at this year’s Qantas Film & TV Awards for her excellent work on the prime-time TV drama, The Cult. WELL DONE LISA! And keep an eye out next week for an exciting announcement about a [...]
Premiere Screening a Great Night Out
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, independent film, premiere, Qantas Film & Television Awards, short film, The Academy Cinema on July 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Nearly 100 crew, colleagues, friends, family, film students and industry-ites braved a miserable mid-winter night in Auckland to be the first in the world to see my short film up on the big screen. Four lucky members of the audience also scored bottles of 26000 vodka from McCashin’s Brewery, and Cable Bay Vineyards Chardonnay and [...]
Check out our page on IMDb.com
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, cast list, Craig Hall, crew list, IMDB.com, Lisa Chappell, Lynette Forday, Mike Edward, Narelle Ahrens, Nicola Smith on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s our entry, updated in the last few days – check it out!
It’s in the Can!
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged ADR, Be Careful, Be Careful What You Pray For, Brenton Cumberpatch, colorist, Film Festivals, Images & Sound, Lisa Chappell, Paul Kelly, Paul Lear, post-synch, Rhombus, short film, short film festivals on May 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sigh… the road to hell is paved with good intentions about keeping this blog up-to-date… c’est la vie. In news since December (date of my last post) 1. Eddie and I parted ways and the music was brilliantly done by Rhombus. They brought real creativity to the job and also an incredibly diligent, reliable and [...]
Another overdue update
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, Images & Sound, Lisa Chappell, postproduction, Red camera on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Guess it’s ‘cuz of the busy time of year, but I’ve been spectacularly remiss with these updates. In a nutshell: 1. Got the pick-up shot re-shot that I needed. It’s the opneing shot of a child (or is it…?) drawing a picture while the lead character speaks in V/O. Nic, the editor, felt it didn’t [...]
The footage is on Nic’s Avid!
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Avid, Be Careful, editing, Nicola Smith, Red camera on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! After MUCH delay, hassles, corrupted files, hours of synching, transferring between external hard drives and various Macs – it now appears that we do, at least, have the pictures and the audio onto Nic’s computer. Phew! Only took us two weeks… (OK, maybe not quite.) Sadly [...]
Editor on board?
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, editing, editor, Jinx Sister, Lisa Chappell, Whale Rider on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! We’ll know by Sunday when I’m meeting Julie Alp to discuss the project. She cut the digital feature, Jinx Sister, which starred Sara Wiseman who, in a twist of fate, was attached to “Be Careful…” for a while before being replaced by Lisa Chappell. (Due to [...]
Short film script
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, Creative New Zealand, film funding, screenwriting, short film, SIPF on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! The Be Careful… script can be found under the relevant page of my website, but here it is in a more accessible spot. Be interested in anyone’s feedback. Be Careful… shooting script link Clearly there needs to be some sort of post-mortem about how and why [...]
An answer to the previous blog’s heading:
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, Creative New Zealand, film funding, short film, SIPF on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! No. Bugger.
