So it is early 2025, amazingly, and Kairos has been working on a documentary for several years. We have said nothing about that publically, mostly because of Larry's usual strong advice, for us to never, ever talk about a show we are making until it is finished, or nearly so. And, after a very, very, very long editing process (a seemingly-endless year and a half, so far) we are approaching, at last, an assembly that we can look at and kind of like. Thank God. It's been...so brutal. My sense of responsibility and failure and emotional and physical dyspepsia has been most of what I have experienced, since Day Three of our shoot in, July of 2023. So, onward and upward, I trust and hope. Ever hopeful, ever prayerful.

Well hello there, folks who have not heard from me through all of the changes that COVID-19 has wrought on our world. I mostly do not write in this blog unless we are in actual production, but I really wanted to today. Last week our beloved "Language Arts" premiered on many platforms, and we are now in release!!! The Kairos Team spent several years, most of that during lockdown, trying to get it to the right distributor, and to our joy, Gravitas Ventures is now delivering the film to as many eyes as possible. Halleluia!!! I am utterly grateful for the persistence and hard work of Larry Estes, Josh Henning, Carol Roscoe, Jeff Dowd, Alex Nohe, and the Gravitas Team! Please watch it if you can. The last 5 years of working on the movie have finally come to fruition!

Greetings, folk who have not heard from me for awhile. Like nearly a year. Updates: We are still...yes...still...finishing up both "ALT" and "Language Arts". Because sometimes that is just how long it takes. Years. And yes, it is frustrating. But as a tiny company, we do not have the financial or human resources to do all that we need to do, as fast as we, or anyone interested in the projects, might like. There are I believe over 173 SFX ("special effects") in "ALT". I have forgotten the precise number. That is a lot of CGI to make. When you see the show, which will be soon, we hope, you likely won't be thinking of all that, you will just be enjoying the story. All of us who watch films have gotten used to seeing constant and rapid visual miracles in Marvel comic book movies. But when you have a very, very small movie like "ALT", shot on a shoestring, in your family home, well...it just takes longer to get it right. I hope you like it, when and if you see it! We do. And getting to that has taken all the time it has taken. We completed the picture edit on "Language Arts" in December of 2018, and once again, it has been 6 months (as of this writing) building the animation, which we are still working hard on. Once that is completed, we will do our final color correction, and our sound mix - mingling B.C. Smith's gorgeous music with Dave Howe and Bad Animals' sound design. And then...we begin the submission process for both our creative children, trying to get them into film festivals. To hopefully garner them the critical attention they deserve, and gain us distribution. Life is about waiting, they say. We spent a few months early this year developing a script for something that did not work out. So it goes, often. As Larry and I have reminded each other for decades, whenever we feel down about the progress of a show, "This is the exciting part." In other news, we are likely shooting our 6th feature film at the end of the summer. So all good thoughts and prayers that you can send in that direction are humbly and gratefully accepted! I will write more as we progress toward shooting Film 6. But yes, Kairos friends, we are literally working hard on three feature films at the same time. Because that is how we roll!

I can never thank this crew, and cast, enough.

Day 30

My heart is full of so many emotions. So much gratitude, and of course the inevitable..."but what will I do now when my film family goes away?" It happens every time. One answer? Sleep a lot to begin with...and work on the sore body to be less sore. Look at how beautiful these people are! We didn't of course get everyone in the shots, but we got many glorious folk. The second shot is our "Look at how many women crew we have" for the Women in Film site. Pictures by Annabel Clark (http://www.annabelclark.com) We have many woman Keys, and many women workers of every kind, many more than most films are graced with, and for that I am utterly grateful. Here is what I sent to my crew today: My beloved friends, Thank you, from my grateful soul, for taking this journey with me into the beauty and sadness of “Language Arts.” I have never worked with a finer, more heart-full, talented and dedicated, crew. You are all the best of the best, and it is an honor to know you, and to have the privilege of sharing the work, and its joys and struggles, with you. I have asked you to work very hard, and you have, uncomplainingly, and with grace. We deliberately chose you for your excellence, skill and experience, but also for your warm spirits and open hearts. Everyone on this crew was chosen in the hope that they would instinctively be supportive and respectful and nurturing toward the young actors that we would work with. We picked fine artisans, but we also picked kind and honorable folk. You are people that I hope to know for the rest of my life. Thanks for gently making space for me, when I got emotional in the telling of this tale that is so very close to my own story. Thanks for rejoicing with me when we nailed it (like every day!) and I felt like celebrating. Thanks for quietly going about your work with excellence and dedication and perseverance, even when the working conditions were challenging, especially in all the smoke of the last week. Thanks for believing with Larry and me that this project was worth spending most of your summer doing. And thanks for staying and giving it your all, despite what it may have possibly cost your personal life. Thanks for forgiving the less-than ideal aspects of the show, and granting your warm energy toward the making of the ideal ones. Thanks. A thousand times, thanks. You, and your hard work and generosity, made my dream come true. I love you all. Blessings upon your every cell, Corrie

Day 29...Tired...Happy... a Perfect Penultimate Day...

The delightful Erin Cummings and Basil Harris, Ladies and Gentlemen, to join Elliott Smith in making our 1962 family complete :) Happy Birthday to our Production Designer Rachel!

Day 28, 1962 Family...and Smoke...