the wonders of ichat...

how excited am i for this film?! it's been almost a year since kristen and i decided to take the plunge into making a short on 35mm. i may have moved during our writing process, but we never let that stop us. though separated by coasts we have discovered our love of ichat. it has helped us stay away from racking up those dreadful cell phone minutes. it has been the best form of communication... and free!

these past months we have been getting good feedback from friends, colleagues, and different writers we have met along the way. i for one love honest critique because it will only help make our script stronger or push us in another direction that we may need to go. there are so many different elements that need to come together the next months it's exciting and a bundle of different emotions all in one.

cheers to kristen and hank for the idea of setting up the site!

The Writing Life

Something we both agreed on was wanting to produce an original script. In early January 2006, Jen flew to South Carolina and we spent that week writing, and before she left we had our first draft. Over the next several months, we continued to perform rewrites. Until, we had created something we felt (note: subjective emotional context) we were ready to have judged.

We have had many helping hands through the writing process, one of which I feel greatly indebted to is Dr. Franklin Ashley. His guidance, humor, and support have been unflinching. Thanks, man.

Lesson learned: Write often, write well.

-Kristen Vincent

The Beginning

It's only fair to start at the beginning, so here it goes. Jennifer Fodor and I worked on a feature film shot in Charlotte, NC last fall called The Ultimate Gift. We both worked in the production office, and towards the end of filming we were charged with the task of finding someone to buy back the 35mm short ends. The bids from short ends companies were coming in low, and joking around we tossed around the idea of buying them back and making our own movie. Well, it took us about two minutes to decide that was a brilliant idea, and we would do just that. Two weeks later, we returned to our respective homes with 13,000 feet of 35mm short ends.

-Kristen Vincent