Monday, June 10, 2019

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!

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