Sadly, it’s been over a year since I last updated this blog. A lot has happened since then. Primarily, the musical got put on the virtual “back burner,” because I was hired to direct the short film, Foodie.
Foodie was one of the  biggest films I’ve ever worked on. It had an over $3,000 budget based on a successful Kickstarter campaign. It had the most actors I’ve ever worked with on a film and in one scene(involving 9 people at a table.) It had the most practical special effects I’ve ever had in one of my films. It had the most location shoots of any of my films. There were a lot of firsts on this project and I think it turned out really well.
We’ve already been accepted to 5 film festivals so far and we won our first award, 2012 ConCarolinas Short Film Festival Award for Best Original Fiction. Lots of great stuff happening around our film Foodie. We’re waiting on word from other festivals any day now and we’re also working on a DVD to sell. Of course, all the work surrounding the film does have it’s price. My musical movie went into a limbo state because of it, but I’m back on track again and I’m writing more stuff for it and songs are being created. The Phoenix has risen and I hope to have something finished and ready by the end of the year if not sooner.
Even cooler is that I had a brief chat with Anthony Michael Hall while at the sci-fi/fantasy convention, Dragon*Con, last weekend.
I met Anthony Michael Hall in the Celebrity Hall at Dragon*Con.
He has a new production company and I talked to him about my musical. He’s interested in knowing more about my film as well as my previous projects, so I’ve sent off information to him this week. I’m excited about the prospect of working with him on my movie. An 80′s icon who I grew up watching in such John Hughes classics as Sixteen Candles, Weird Science and The Breakfast Club.
They sky’s the limit as they say and I think there are some great things in store for this project. I feel blessed to be working with so many talented people and to find opportunities to bring my ideas and projects to fruition. Some days it makes me want to break out in song. 