New Year, Updates

Back again with a new post for the new year.  New decade even!

A lot of text (well... a decent amount of text), brace yourself...

One of my earliest posts to this blog (almost 10 years ago), was a simple post labeled "Film Progress".  I wish I'd stuck to that general update style, rather than only posting specific accomplishments every now and then.  It might have freed my mind a bit more, and I might have found more to post.  Alas, I have been very sporadic in my posting through the years.  But... in honor of that original post, here's another one as I near the conclusion of my film.

So... how's the film going?

ALMOST COMPLETE: In my last post I pretty much just glossed over a huge detail: the film is nearly complete!  It's actually been in that state for a while now, and in recent months I've mostly just been fine-tuning things as I looked for a place to screen it.  Which leads me to the next update...

PREMIERE SCREENING: After nearly a year of trying to secure a location for screening, I finally have one!  Man, what a process that was...  So many calls and e-mails back and forth with various places, but I'm very happy with what I finally settled on (I just wish I'd found it sooner!).  I've reserved the space near the end of the month (which will officially mark the film's completion) where I'll have a private screening for family and friends.  After practically a decade of working on this, it's gonna be great to finally be able to share it with everyone!

FINE-TUNING: And in preparation for the screening, I'm currently scrambling to make as many last minute touch-ups as I can.  Of course, this isn't some big Hollywood-budget thing, so there's only so much I can polish without hiring a huge team of people with greater expertise.  Nonetheless, I'm having fun trying to make it as good as I can.

TRAILER: After that I intend to make a trailer.  I actually already made one well before the film was finished, but it never quite satisfied me so I never posted it.  But I have a new concept in mind and I'm looking forward to creating and posting that after the screening.  Would love to have shared that before the screening, but at this point I'd rather put all my efforts into fine-tuning the actual film.

And that's basically it.  Soon I'll be looking into festivals to submit the film to, but it's sort of in a "no man's land" (not quite a professional indie film, but not quite a student film either) so I'm not sure where I'll really be able to put it, but we'll see. Otherwise, this year I'm gonna really start trying to build my company (Rickair Productions) as a brand, and look for projects that could lead to actual sources of revenue.  I have several new story/project ideas I'd like to pursue, but from this point forward I'll be focusing more on how to use them to actually create a sustainable business.

Anyway, that's it for this post.  Happy New Year!  Happy New Decade!  2020!  As always, looking forward to posting more as I finally finish this film!

- Erik (Director)