All the pieces are slowly coming together. Some actors are cast, some locations are for sure a lock -- well, one, being my apartment which will be the apartment of my main character, Paul. Some locations are still up in the air. I'm waiting for replies, hopefully the answer will be a joyful, "Yes, you can shoot in our amazing facility for free, in fact, we'll even give you money to make your movie!"
I am excited to get into the meat of my second feature film. It's been years since I worked on a feature. How many? I started production on my first one, ENOLA, in January 2006. Screened it in February 2008. I will begin production on my second one in August 2011. That's mostly insane. What have I been doing? I've spent my time building short projects, mostly for the retro series we run at my theatre. My biggest theatre project can be seen here. A 13 minute short film about how the retro titles at my theatre are selected. It was definitely an exercise in very specific production and sound design; two areas in film that I love, but two areas I don't focus much on when thinking about my own (future) films.
The "story" of NICOTINE is something that was forming as I completed ENOLA. Instead of writing that, however, I began a screenplay called TESS, about three sisters that come together over the weekend to celebrate the birthday of their dead mother. As the very big in your face moral questions started to become louder and louder, and as I started writing the turning point in the story, I was stuck. It wasn't a matter of not knowing where the story could and would go, it was more about if I could actually film this sort of thing in the real world. I didn't want to write it and not be able to fully create it. That sort of thing would be unacceptable to me. I ended up putting that idea on the back burner and started on NICOTINE. What is the story? I will get into that later. But I can tell you that it will be fun and exciting.
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