Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

The film industry, business, and creative world is very complicated and multi-layered in its planning, implementation, and exploitation. I have certainly seen it from many different angles in my long media life. From the very first time I took a film class, had my...
Pre-Production towards Transformation

Pre-Production towards Transformation

The creative fires are smoldering, getting ready to go full blast for our next film production. Currently I am working with a casting director to put together the very best cast we can possibly find for this project. It’s never easy, because all types of demands on...
What Does It Mean?

What Does It Mean?

Post by One Hand Clapping. I just recently returned from the Angel Film Awards, which is part of the Monaco International Film Festival, where the screenplay for our next project, “One Hand Clapping,” was up for a screenplay award. At this very same festival last year...
Austin Screening

Austin Screening

You could say that I began growing up into my filmmaking life in Austin, TX. In the 70’s I went to college there at the University of Texas, mostly as an English major. I had written several short stories and lots of poetry, some of which were published. I also took...
Moving Along

Moving Along

As we move to less 6 months of the beginning of production in the Austin, TX area on our next film project “One Hand Clapping,” I just wanted to update you about what we’ve been up to lately and what is on our horizon. First piece of news. Just a couple days ago the...
Finding the Moola

Finding the Moola

It always seems to come down to the money. The search, the quest, the mission to find that ever elusive moola. I talked about one aspect of our film financial plan in my last blog posting. Crowdfunding. The part we want to involve as many of you as will have us. Yet...