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BTS - The Road To Park City: Frayed Ends
When the call came in for Slamdance, we were initially caught off guard. I had submitted a very rough cut in September and assumed we’d be passed over. I planned to lock picture in December, affording a few months to mix the film and wrap any loose ends before the spring festival slate. [...]
BTS - The Road to Park City
With Slamdance only a month away, I thought it may be worth detailing the process of prepping THE NEW YEAR PARADE for its Park City premiere. Fortunately for us, the IFP Narrative Rough Cut Lab had prepped us on dealing with distributors, sales agents, and planning our festival strategy. But even with [...]
Zero to Sixty in a thirty-second phone call
On the Sunday evening before Thanksgiving my cell phone started buzzing. I didn’t recognize the area code, which always gives pause. I tried to remember – is that New York? LA? Utah? Jersey? I answered and was thrilled to hear, “Hey Tom, this is the Slamdance film festival….” My girlfriend gave me the “inhale, exhale” [...]
new week, tighter cut
This is a pretty exciting part of the process: finally sculpting the excess from the film to shape the final cut. I lifted nearly 15 minutes this week, bringing the run time to 82. It plays incredibly!!
The feedback we’ve accumulated through the IFP Lab and the test screenings we’ve held [...]
New Year Parade test screening
When I first approached local producers with The New Year Parade four years ago they started laughing. It seemed like a suicide project with our limited funds and epic needs: six lead roles, a supporting cast of eighty musicians, and a final scene at the Mummer’s parade, which consists of 15,000 members in costume [...]
