Back in May I was interviewed about Discouraging Words for the cable access show Filmmaker’s Studio. Not my best or most coherent interview, but in my defense I hadn’t slept more than about twenty hours in the week preceding the interview.
Anyway, the show is embedded below:
[YouTube]
Discouraging Words had its first western-states screening on Saturday as part of the Cheyenne International Film Festival. I want to thank festival organizers Alan O’Hashi and Michael Conti, as well as all the good people who came out to the program. I was particularly amused to hear from a number of people who are intimately involved in the Wyoming political scene who told me that we got the characters exactly right.
Some people at the festival have expressed interest in purchasing DVDs. Check back here in exactly two months—that’s July 24th—for more information about how to get your hands on your very own copy of the movie. If you would like to receive an email when the DVD becomes available, just leave a comment on this post and I’ll be in touch.
There will be screenings in Colorado this summer, although nothing is set in stone yet. If you would like to arrange your own private screening for friends, family, neighbors, passing strangers on the street… please send an email to screeners@discouragingwords.com.
…And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings…
…put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Picture lock.
Post-production on Discouraging Words is getting crazy (in a good way?) because I need to have a screener done by the seventh of May. Here’s where I withdraw into my hole and become an antisocial hermit until the movie is finished, so if you send me an e-mail or Facebook message or the like, don’t expect to necessarily get a reply. Ever. Fair warning—that’s just the way I roll.
Anyway, here are two things that you might find interesting. First, a frame from some news graphics I’m currently rendering out:
And here is an actual scene, presented in its entirety: (more…)
No sense in keeping a lid on this anymore… (more…)
Here, in its most distilled form, is all of Discouraging Words. Every single frame of footage, synchronized to sound (as of last night) and waiting to be cut. Click the image below to see the full master clip bin (not for the faint of heart):
That’s 1,100 takes, or 26 hours of footage, or 1.2 terabytes, depending on how you slice it. Eventually to be boiled down to under 120 minutes. Oof.