The Rocky Mountain Collegian just pub­lished a fan­tas­tic arti­cle on 16 Heads and Counting called “Bathed in blood­ied suc­cess,” which is prob­a­bly the most badass phrase that I have ever been asso­ci­ated with.

You can read the arti­cle here.

16 Heads is under­go­ing revi­sion for entry in the fes­ti­val cir­cuit. Screener copies can be requested by e-mailing info@​1​6​heads.​com. And when I’m back in Colorado over Thanksgiving, I’ll finally get around to hand­ing out DVD copies to cast and crew. *Tsk* It sure took me long enough.

Tonight was the first-ever pub­lic screen­ing of 16 Heads and Counting! I’ve been up all week­end deal­ing with crises and doing a color grade, and finally it’s pay­ing off!

That’s right, that’s our movie on a mar­quee, right in between Roman De Gare and The Wackness. What of it?

We had an amaz­ing turnout today. We sold out nearly an hour before the show time, and we’ve already sold over half the seats for tomorrow’s show. Taking in mind those fac­tors, the Lyric has decided to extend our run!

Our sec­ond show will be tomor­row, Tuesday, August 12^th at 7:00 p.m.

In addi­tion, we will run­ning four addi­tional shows: one every day from Monday, August 18^th to Thursday, August 21^st. All shows are at 7:00 p.m.

And depend­ing on our ticket sales next week, we may get a week­end show! Tell all your friends! Make us famous! Already gone once? Why not see it again?

At the very least, I will be at all five of the upcom­ing shows, so you can say hi when you come to see the movie. There will prob­a­bly be other cast and crew present at many of the screen­ings. Tomorrow, for instance, our star actor Sean Cummings is play­ing hooky from Little Shop of Horrors rehearsals to attend the show. Vvinni will be there too, and many oth­ers, includ­ing a large con­tin­gent from my family.

Spread the word! More 16 Heads and Counting screen­ings next week! And if you’re plan­ning on com­ing to tomorrow’s show, get your tick­ets early, because we’ll prob­a­bly sell out again.

The first-ever pub­lic screen­ing of 16 Heads and Counting is THIS EVENING, 7:00 P.M. at the Lyric Cinema Café!

I’m still doing ren­ders and things (I’m aver­ag­ing one FX shot every two min­utes, from plan­ning through queu­ing for render—a new per­sonal record), but it looks like unless my video card sud­denly goes JACFU we’re safely on track to have the screener DVD ready in time, and maybe even test it and burn a spare!

Come if you can make it! Hobnob with us crazy film folk—we’ll be on our best behav­ior and I solemnly vow not to stab, poke or claw at you unless you specif­i­cally ask me to. If you can’t make it tonight, come tomor­row night at the same time, for screen­ing #2! It’s prob­a­bly just the lack of sleep talk­ing, but I feel like I’m oblig­ated to make a poop joke of some kind here. Can’t think of any­thing, though. Sorry.

Come to our screening!

16 Heads and Counting gets a men­tion on page B1 of the Coloradoan today. For some rea­son the arti­cle isn’t up on their web site, so here it is:

CLASSMATES’ LOCAL FILM PROJECT COMES TO FRUITION
By Stacy Nick

What started out for two Poudre High School grad­u­ates as an “Untitled Search for God” has now become “16 Heads and Counting.”

It’s a seem­ingly more appro­pri­ate, if also more grisly, title for film direc­tor Andrew Gingerich and writer/producer Ethan Holbrook’s lat­est work. After all, it is basi­cally a movie about a man who dis­cov­ers that his girl­friend is killing peo­ple and keep­ing their heads in the trunk of her car.

There’s also the real/imagined threat of vam­pires, mob­sters, and a guy in a dog suit who believes he is an instru­ment of God, hence the ear­lier work­ing title.

The idea for the film started as a writ­ing exer­cise for a class at the Minnesota College of Film and Design where Holbrook and Gingerich attend, Holbrook said. But even­tu­ally it grew into a com­plex yet intrigu­ing screen­play that Gingerich con­vinced his friend had all the right mak­ings of a movie.

“It’s very reward­ing to see some­thing that’s been such a big part of my life for the past year and a half finally reach an audi­ence,” Holbrook said.

The black com­edy fea­tures local actors—Colorado State University stu­dents Sean Cummings and Rosalie Robinson star—and local loca­tions, includ­ing Rocky Mountain Shooters’ Supply and the Lyric Cinema Cafe, where the film will have its debut screen­ing Monday.

The cast and crew only had three weeks and about $3,000 to shoot the film last sum­mer. But Holbrook and Gingerich agree they are pleased with the results and hope those who helped them along the way will be, too.

“We got to shoot in loca­tions and work with peo­ple we never thought pos­si­ble,” said Gingerich, who is cur­rently shop­ping the film to fes­ti­vals with the aim of get­ting a dis­tri­b­u­tion deal. “And I am thrilled to show this film to all those who helped this project reach its full potential.”

Gingerich said he is most look­ing for­ward to see­ing the audience’s reac­tion to the film.

“You never can guess what peo­ple will do until it plays in front of an audi­ence,” he said. “We know what we think is funny, but audi­ences can feel differently.”

’16 HEADS AND COUNTING’

When: 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday
Where: Lyric Cinema Cafe, 300 Mountain Ave.
Information: www​.16heads​.com

This arti­cle is good in that it got all the impor­tant infor­ma­tion cor­rect, and it’s at the top of page B1, which is about as good as it gets for local media cov­er­age of films. All in all it’s about 90% accu­rate, except for para­graph four, which may in fact be a com­plete fab­ri­ca­tion. The Minnesota College of Film and Design is not a real thing, as far as I know, nor did the script orig­i­nate as an in-class exer­cise. Oh well. All in all, a nice bit of coverage.

Back to the FX suite!

Today, dear friends, we locked the sound edit. That includes all music, sync and re-recorded dia­logue, room tones, wild tracks, fx, and even a siz­able amount of cloth-pass foley (we run through the movie for each of the major char­ac­ters, record­ing fab­ric noises that syn­chro­nize with the move­ment of their clothing).

Along with hav­ing a sound lock and all that it entails, we now have a hard-and-fast run­time for the film. Anyone wanna guess what it is? Go on, guess. It’ll be fun.

And I have some excit­ing news that I just can’t keep from spilling right now: tonight we handed off our 20 tracks of audio to a real, honest-to-goodness post house for sweet­en­ing and mix-down: Emmy-winning audio pro­duc­tion house Derryberry Audio in Westminster will be han­dling our final mix! And we can actu­ally afford this, somehow!

I’m an often-overprotective direc­tor when it comes to let­ting strangers get their grubby mitts all over the movie before it’s fin­ished. But after meet­ing with our engi­neer and walk­ing him through the project, I couldn’t be more excited. The film is most def­i­nitely in good hands, and we’ll be head­ing back out to review the final mix and pick up our files tomor­row night! Can’t wait! I’ll be sure to take pic­tures of their awe­some mix­ing suite!

Wanna expe­ri­ence some­thing weird on Sunday? Wait until the week­end and I’ll tell you what it is!

Hey, does any­one want a FREE 16 HEADS AND COUNTING POSTER? I know I would, if I didn’t already have about 900 sit­ting in a box on my couch!

Tell you what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna give you a FREE 16 HEADS AND COUNTING POSTER. All YOU have to do is go to the Lyric Cinema Café at 300 E Mulberry Ave. and grab a poster from the stack on the counter. And while you’re at it, you should get some food, and maybe a bub­ble tea, and take in one of the other fine films cur­rently show­ing at the Lyric. You know what’s open­ing tomor­row that looks good? The Wackness. Hooray for Sir Ben Kingsley try­ing new and inter­est­ing things!

You should also tell the Lyric folks that you’ll be com­ing to the 16 Heads and Counting screen­ing, August 11^th and 12^th at 7:00 PM. Because it makes them feel all warm and tingly to think that they won’t be los­ing busi­ness just because they’re being way cool and show­ing a local film.