Leap of Faith

It's happening!

Now that we have a signed contract we are good to go.

And so we begin the actual pre-pre-production. For a long while it will be a very small team until we raise the funds to hire the actual crew. In my experience in Indy Film that is always the case.

The screenplay is slowly deepening and changing. I have been working on it, off and on, for many years. It is now, of course, my singular focus. It is a great privilege to try to inhabit the head of one of Madeleine's protagonists.

We hope to set the film in 1948 Manhattan, so we are researching locations that will be evocative of that time and place. On an independent film budget, it is likely that we will be using real old buildings rather than building sets, but we are looking into how best to tell the visual story.

Our researchers are finding a wealth of wonderful information about the time and place, and we are getting very excited looking at period pictures and drawings. Music will be a very important element of course, and we are talking to some enormously-gifted musical artists.

It is a very encouraging thing to realize how many people love this book. This is comforting when we realize the reality of raising money for a period piece in this economy.