After a two weeks of burning the candle at both ends, House of Donn is ready for sending out to film festivals.
Today, just in the nick of time, I submitted to Palm Springs and Rhode Island. Then in the next week or two it’ll be Raindance, Austin and any other ones that tickle my fancy.
There are two (possibly three) ever so slightly less than perfect lines of dialogue which I’ll get Ben to ADR next week before I send any more out, but as he was in London today, and I needed to get the two submissions in the post by tomorrow, I figured that they weren’t bad enough to really worry about (they just a little too bassy, and I doubt most people will notice).
I was really hoping to submit to Venice, but they want world premieres only and 35mm prints if selected. As there’s no way I can tell if Palm Springs or Rhode Island (which are over the two or so weeks before Venice in August) will select the film and I don’t really have enough spare cash for a 35mm print, I gave up on the idea.
Nonetheless, I’m over the moon with the finished product. I still keep watching it through slightly in awe of it, not quite being able get my head round the fact that it turned around in a little over four months from conception to completion.
Now I’ve got to update the web site and get all the press gumph sorted, but as there’s only two actors, and one is reasonably well known, that shouldn’t be too hard to work through…
All the hard work has taken a toll on my health a little. I now have a glorious chest and throat infection. Perhaps a few early nights wouldn’t go a miss in the next few days.
2 comments
Sammy says:
June 8, 2006 at 8:27 pm (UTC 1 )
Hey!
If you’re submitting your film to festivals you may want to check out iklipz. They’re a new website looking to share the work of independent filmmakers. Looks like they’ll be having monthly online fest with best of show awards. Thought I’d pass along the info if you’re interested.
Cheers!
Andy Coughlan's Screenwriting and Filmmaking Blog says:
June 8, 2006 at 11:01 pm (UTC 1 )
I now have perfect sound on House of Donn. Ben came round the other day and did a bit of ADR. I had an old radio mic which I’d spent 50 quid repairing so I could use it for SToA, but as it happened, remained unused. So I dug it out to use for this exer