The movie is now so tight, clocking in at a compact 84 minutes (down from 100...my very first rough cut clocked in at a lethargic 133 minutes). I've seen in 100 times and still love watching it. I'm chomping at the bit for people to start seeing it, but I've still got 2 months of sound and music work before it's finally done.
We've begun submitting to a few select festivals. We're trying to be strategic about how best to premiere the film. The ideal gameplan is to premiere at a major international festival and then follow up with a major North American fest this fall. Our fate should become clear within the next 3-4 weeks....so we'll be keeping our fingers crossed until then.
The soundtrack is also progressing really well. Posted below is a PRELIMINARY track listing. But there are still a few artists that we are negotiating with as a couple that haven;t recorder yet so it will definitely swell and change...possibly as high as 16 tracks.
THIS BEAUTIFUL SOUNDTRACK (in no particular order)
Big Smoke (BRYAN WEBB)
Mountainside (EMILIE MOVER)
Kennedy Killed The Hat - remix (BUCK 65)
Feel The Rise (SEBASTIEN GRAINGER & JEWISH LEGEND)
Flying Cars (THE GHOST IS DANCING)
Jane Station (THE GHOST IS DANCING)
We Want What's Right (SUNPARLOUR PLAYERS)
Bless This City (SUNPARLOUR PLAYERS)
Positive People (BRYAN WEBB)
untitled (SHAD)
Plus 2 as of yet unrecorded songs by AMY MILLAN and FEMBOTS.
It's really become an embarrassment of riches as I am having to turn down songs I really like...I just can't find a place for them in the film. Maybe I'll have to edit a new film out of the scenes we didn't use and throw the unused tracks in there to create a worked Frankenstein of excellent parts that just don't quite fit together.
