From left, that's me (Kerry Douglas Dye), actor Robert Gomes, co-director Jordan Hoffman, actress Leslie Kendall. Photo courtesy of Jurgen Fauth (www.jurgenfauth.com).

So after completing the sound (more difficult and expensive than anticipated) and completing the picture (more difficult and expensive than anticipated), we finally have a finished movie of sorts, filled with just enough glitches and imperfections to keep it interesting.

We screened the mug down at the Two Boots Pioneer Theatre the other day, for friends, family, cast and crew. Went well. I don't know if you ever hear anything but raves at one of those things, but we heard mostly raves, which feels good. One dude I don't know started explaining to me at the after-party that the screenplay is a "perfect closed system", in which all possibilities are something something something ... No idea what he was talking about, but I think it was complimentary.

Our master format is kick-ass super HD (D5) scanned from our Super 16mm shooting format, but we screened on HDV, which is a nutty low-quality HD format the lives on regular DV tapes. Gotta say, though, it looked pretty damn good. Yeah, I cringed at the times where I knew there'd be color matching glitches or random moments of ugliness, but 90% of the thing looked awesome, and the imperfections can all be fixed before distribution happens. Just not now. We're out of money.

Hours before the screening I was at my day job checking my mail compulsively. We were waiting to hear from a few film festivals, and I desperately wanted an acceptance to come in that I could announce at the screening. At 3:30pm, it was time to leave my computer, and no acceptance had been received. I headed downtown, attended the screening, attended the after-party, and had one conversation after another where I said things like, "yeah, it's a real competitive environment out there for festivals. Not sure when we'll premiere. Maybe September ... hopefully we'll get into a good one, yeah, I don't know."

Got home from the screening, and what's in my e-mail inbox? Acceptance to the Brooklyn International Film Festival, which is a great festival, and an excellent place for our world premiere. Damn e-mail came in at 4:50pm ... if I had left my day job at 5pm like a mensch rather than slipping out early, I could have announced our premiere at the screening and saved myself all those awkward conversations. Ah, well. I'm very much not complaining.

Anyway, Brooklyn is in June -- not sure of our exact screening date yet. We're very excited. Now we get the fun of spending money on postcards and flyers and media kits ... ah, the joy and pain of the festival process. It's great to be doing it again, and we'll try to keep you updated on the fun. Cheers!