Sundance!!! We are in!!!

OK calm down. Just a little preview of what will be posted on the 8th of December. I entered the festival yesterday… which anybody with 2 frames of film and 50 bucks can do. Still it felt good to hit the enter button.

Final Cut, “I HATE YOU!”

Man… computers are just a major pain in the butt. I know they can do all these amazing things but they are just sooo annoying. Anyway so I am following my friends at Mission Control’s incredibly lucid instructions about just how to get a DVD master out of Final Cut.

I know you can theoretically just hit a button and out pops a DVD but we need a pretty flawless copy and and no gooey, grey

Back up goes the rough cut…

So I finally completely read through the Sundance submission requirements and they seem to not give a fig about where a short has been shown… features are another story but shorts… bring’em on.

So again… here is the rough cut. Enjoy!

All Together from Robin Willis on Vimeo.

Pulling the the full length rough cuts…

Hi gang. I have been reading the entry forms for festivals like Sundance. They have this clause about not allowing films that have beeen released on the internet. It was never my intention to put the final release cut on the internet before we entered any festivals. Anyway bottom line is I am pulling the full length rough cuts. THEY ARE NOT THE FINAL RELEASE CUT but still lets just play it safe.

Awards Dance

Thing seem to have gotten easier for those of us poor sod filmmakers who want to enter festivals. In poking around on the Internet I found these 2 organizations for online festival entries and research: Without a Box and Short Film Depot .

Without a Box for the most part seems to be what I am working with. Being a project from IMDB/Amazon it’s pretty slick and well though out. Short Film Depot is

I have the most talented friends in the world!

Mr. Fish… James Fish just sent in an idea for the opening titles. As we say here in Spain, “Es La PUTA MADRE!” Is this project blessed or what. It’s just sooo beautiful. Here it is:

Opening titles Version 1 from Robin Willis on Vimeo.

Dean’s Read

Dean’s Read

I have know Dean McCrea since he used to torment me in the band room of Parkrose high school. He is a big, big man with a very sweet and interesting voice. I love Darrell’s read but Darrell doesn’t. Hmmmm… what to do? Let’s see, I am the big boss, nobody is here to tell me what to do… I could call it good and go make myself a sandwich or I can

Production Stills

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Okey dokey… something for the gang. Many pictures of me being directorial. Mr. Willis particularly likes to be photographed from below.

Fish… James Fish

My friend and brilliant artist, designer and teacher Meester James Fish (that’s pronounced FEHSH not FEESH as my daughter’s classmates do) will be doing the titles. Honestly a simple white on black set of title cards would work fine but why not make things impossibly complicated I always say. So I have been thinking a lot about peanuts. Do