I wanted to take a moment to just acknowledge a few people involved in Gone Fishing, sometimes in a slightly lateral way. Johnny Newman, a director friend of mine, encouraged me to make a short after he made his own short called Foster, which also played at Rhode Island! Johnny also encouraged me to enter [...]
Archive | August, 2008
IMDb Rating Finally In!
IMDB has finally updated our user rating and we have our score – as write this, it’s 8.6 which is derived from 75 votes – in the screengrab here you can see the breakdown of those votes, which is interesting. IMDB weight these scores, so you will see that we actually have a score of [...]
Starting the film sales process…
We are now in the process of attaching a distributor to Gone Fishing. I am under no illusions, we are not going to get rich of this film, and any money we do make will get ploughed back into more PR, and repaying a few ‘loans and debts’ that we have acquired (on the understanding [...]
The Posters Are Finally Sent Out!
Finally, the postal tubes for the posters arrived – at the same time as the newest member of Team Living Spirit. Catherine Balavage, pictured here, started today. Hoorah! After being asked why she thought it was a good idea to get cramped into a tiny, overheated, noisy office, her answer was simple… ‘I wanted to [...]
Interview on Spolier Alert Radio
On the closing night of the Rhode Island Film Festival, I did a radio interview with Toni Pennacchia of Merging Arts Productions, for a Rhode Island radio station. That interview has since been podcast by Toni on her site, Spolier Alert Radio. It features interviews with a bunch of other film makers and gives you [...]
IMDB test one done… ready for test two?
So the first IMDB test went well… ish. Yes, we did manage to impact on the MOVIEmeter, and we went up by 30% or so for two weeks in a row. I suspect about 100 – 200 people actually voted. So to make a really big impact, it’s going to take several times that many [...]
Next round of festivals annouced…
We have been submitting like crazy to a bunch of international film festivals, and hopefully, they will start to kick in around now and I will start to announce each as they are added to my schedule. We held back submitting until recently because we wanted to launch Gone Fishing around Oscars time, so that [...]
The first Meeting With An Agent… More Questions now…
I had a great meeting today with Sara Putt and Kate Watson of Sara Putt Associates at Shepperton Film Studios, agents who could be repping me. Of course this process is kind of like dating, you try each other on for size, see if it’s a comfortable fit and if it feels right. The meeting [...]
Can you rate Gone Fishing on IMDB… WE NEED YOUR VOTES!
We need to boost the presence of Gone Fishing on IMDB (the Internet Movie Database) – this is the first place professionals look when considering a film. I need to ask you two things. First off, can you please go to IMDB and just visit the Gone Fishing page. You can do that here… Second, [...]
The Road To The Oscars
The road to the Oscars is now truly underfoot. I put out a call to my list today, to get help on this journey, and I have been overwhelmed with incredible offers of support for the film and our attempt at the awards. And the offers have come from all over the globe too! I [...]
Gone Fishing at Rhode Island, the complete Webisodes…
For those of you who missed the whole Gone Fishing World Premiere at the Rhode Island Film Festival on the blog, here is the whole edited Video Blog, one Webisode after another. I wanted to document the journey for other film makers who had not yet attended a major international film festival – so it’s [...]
Emails about the Rhode Island Film Festival
Since returning from Rhode Island, I have received a huge number of emails on all manner of subjects. I thought I might share a few with you… There's nothing I can really put into words about how I feel about your project, we've all felt loss, and your film speaks to me, especially with my [...]
Gone Fishing… The Final Awards… Did we win BEST FILM?
WATCH THE VIDEO FIRST! So it’s all over. What an incredible journey. And we won! We are now officially in the race for the nominations for the Oscars 2009. Can you believe it? I certainly can’t. After the awards, I went back to my room and crashed out for 2 hours, I had burnt up [...]
The closing night screening at the RIIFF
Watch the video first… spoiler alert…! The schedule for the evening went very behind today, and so what should have been a seven o’clock kick off for the closing night gala screenings, became an eight o’clock kick off. The queue around the block was astonishing! Really, a thousand people queuing to see the movie for [...]
Something joyous and something wonderful…
There are two things of note today that are not in the video blog from yesterday. First off, at the panel and seminar sessions, actor Dan Butler gave his key note speech. Dan is most known for his role of Bulldog in the TV show ‘Frasier’, but he had his own movie at the festival [...]
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