I’ve been busy updating all of our websites to make them more accessible and chock full o’ goodness. It is indeed a process, but I think we’ve come up with something that will work for a while and expand with us. Of course, then I have to create one for Stacey as well to hock her fine talents.
Now I by no means profess to be a master coder, but I think I think I’ve held off on turning the project over to one for a couple more years. We’ll see. But do check out the new purebred.tv site and the work section of jasonmitchell.org. Hopefully you will find them intuitive AND informative.
We’ve wrapped the first days of Lucifer’s Crewcut. What a joy it was working with Maria Bamford … nothing like working with real pros to take your project to the next level. We had a half day with her and banged it out with time to spare. I think that also speaks to the quality of the effort our crew put in to rattle this one off. Robert and I were simpatico on working the scenes together to squeeze out the best creative juices from the project.
Robert and Jason work with Maria Bamford on her climatic shot.
Stacey’s team did a wonderful job of pulling together the sets to really give us something to shoot. The last couple of weeks of their work are going to as much of the film as anything else. The whole thing is turning out beautifully. Nicely distressed walls of funny old men in pointy hats … the perfect dressings of water coolers and radiators. The detail of the years worth of pencils hanging from the old rotary phone in the hallway leaving little half moons scrapings on the wall. Great job baby!
And as a bonus, Mark Brecke was there as our set photographer to capture the best moments. It’s nice to have someone like that working with you and adding that extra dimension.
Mark and Jason work to capture the heap of quartet.
Next stop … December when we can reassemble the cast and crew to bang out the remaining days.
I was finally able to join Mark and Vivek Maddala in Los Angeles on Sunday during the 5th Artivist Film Festival. It was nice that my first time at the Egyptian Theater that they were playing our film. Unfortunately I missed the screening which went quite well … packed house, a lot of great comments, and the film made a great impression on the audience. And since it was our LA premier, a lot of the people who worked on in who live down there were finally able to see the finished version on the big screen.
Mark at Artivist
Our red-carpet duo turned trio with the wonderful addition of Vivek who turned in a powerful score for the film. We were finally able to recognize him in person on camera and truly involve him in the festival process. He did a great job hammering home his involvement, touching on the important aspects of the film and handing off to the next guy. Who could ask for anything more.
Vivek and Jason on the red carpet at Artivist FF
It seems Artivist has been good to get our film in front of some of the right people. We had a couple of requests for screeners from other festivals and reps. More news on that as it develops.
