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It is almost 6 years since we started this project and tonight we show the trailer and one of the songs from the film at the Kettle Art Allier in Deep Ellum.  It has been a very long road.  We are hoping to have showings of the film in March and/or April.

Hi Everyone

We are making the very last cuts and audio tunes.  We have submitted the film to 6 film festivals and should start hearing from them by Dec 15th.  We are hoping to have some kind of non public limited screening some time in January.  But as we are hoping to get in to the Dallas International Film festival we can’t have a public showing before April 2010 here in Dallas.

We worked about 12-14 hours a day for 3 weeks and showed up at FedEx at the last possible submission time at 8:31 pm as the doors to FedEx where closing.  The man saw three cars speeding threw the parking lot and 4 people running up to the door at the same time so he let us in.  Now all we have to do is WAIT 2 1/2 months to know if we got in.

We are being helped to get this film done by September 2009.  Matt McClain from Filmworkers is working on the color corrections.  Phil Rogers from TakeOne is fixing all of our bad sound issues.  We are working on getting someone to redo the titles in the film so they look better.  We have gotten the rights to use a Tom Waits and a Beth Hard song.  We are working on getting Shawn Colvin but have been unsuccessful todate.  Mike Graff has offered the use of some of his songs from Course of Empires.  Other great musicians are Brad Hauser, Kenny Withrow and Will Lindow who are working on mood music and other original sound.  Thanks everyone we are very grateful for the help.

Hi everyone.  We are very close to picture lock.  Once this happens them all the other creative people will get their hands on the footage; Sound Engineer, Sound & Music Composers, Graphics Artists and Color Correction and Final transfer people.  We are very excited about this and have high hopes for the completion of this mega project.

Hi everyone, we are working toward a picture lock.  Weee!  Looks great so far.

Hi EveryoneWe are now on Chapter 5, which is half way.  Weee!  We have a sound engineer onboard and are looking a special FX person for Titles and Subtitles.  Our Goal is to have the film ready for AFI submission in Sept of 2010. 

Hi Everyone, we are back in the editing room, cutting and slicing.  The 1st Chapter is almost ready to export and hand over to the sound engineer.  Very exciting!

The new system is up and running.  We did end up loosing some audio files, shame they where very good and part of the final edit.  We are starting to edit again this Sunday.  Weeee are back!

Hi everyone.  After two months of IT issues and programming errors and data recovery, totaling about 30 recovery attempts and 100 hrs of work.  We finally were able to recover a good copy of the film edit.  We only ended up loosing about 1 week of work.  It has been hard to believe but we just wouldn’t let anyone tell us that it was lost for good.  So we just kept working with different IT people and ideas until we found one that worked.  This has been a Hugh relief for everyone involved.