It Has Been a While

That title is an understatement, for sure! The intent really was to write in here at least once a week, but man, I had a bad month after getting rejection slips from all of those festivals. My first experience with the festival circuit was pretty brutal, and if it wasn’t for the film’s first acceptance into Indie Memphis, my funk could still be going on today (sorry for that poorly-worded sentence).

Anyway, I’m very excited to report that PreGame will be playing at Indie Memphis and Tallgrass 2020, along with many other great films (I’m especially excited to see White Eye, Waffle, and In Sudden Darkness). Actually, I believe October 11th last year was the film’s very first day of production. Pretty nuts. I feel like so much has changed over the past year, and not enough. I’ve finished two screenplays since then, and am currently working on two more. I’ve written two other shorts. According to my Letterboxd, I’ve seen around 100 additional movies.

But it’s like, I don’t have much of a portfolio to speak of, in terms of screenplays or films. My whole goal, which really ignites my being most of the time, is to just make another film, to get another screenplay finished. And I’ve been trying to work a little towards my goal every day, but it’s very hard — writing especially. I’m really a perfectionist when it comes to my words, and I should be cranking these screenplays out so I can get better. At this stage, no one’s going to care what I produce — the whole point is really having something to show and getting out all of my mistakes.

Anyway, since day jobs have been hard to find, I’m about to go return an interview call to a pizza place so I can still make money that I can save for more short films.

Thanks for reading.