Tonight was a wonderful night. Attic Studios in LIC is a great place!
Best of all: I finally am witness to our film, along with 50 some other NY’er’s friends, families, peers, random’s. The movie looks great and sounds great and I am so proud of everyone, it was so great seeing us all back together again and it is truly sad not having three members of our team there tonight, however you were there in photographs and definitely there in the heart of this film.
For me watching the film brought back memories of making it and for the first 20 minutes it was hard to disconnect from that. Seeing shots and remembering that I shot that, or lit that, or silk’d that, seeing my actual fingerprint on the scene (not on the lens tho) and being proud of all our work from the DVGenius, to Mike’s opening shot of him in the car, to Redfield’s excellently complimentary score, Chad’s guitar pieces, Sumi’s location management, James uber natural acting 
, and Gabi’s location finds everyone did an amazing job. I want to list out what everyone did and I could but they all know they did amazing, amazing, work with resources and time, and did it with no, to little sleep and it makes me proud to be a part of that team. There is no I in team but it does have the letters for meat, whatever that means.
The biggest moment for me was a small one, where Brigitte and Mike enter the car (woody) and it took less then 10 seconds on screen with a line of dialog between them and my thoughts quickly jumped to the technical aspect of getting two people to enter a car and talk to each other and how seamless it looks but what happens off screen is: lighting, sound positioning, ND filters on the car windows, silk, focus, setting up the composition, costume, makeup, continuity, etc, etc and this is just for a quick in between scene that runs all of 1/4 of a page, at this moment; I was just sitting there dumbfounded at how we actually were able to accomplish all this in 4 weeks. In actuality it is no small feat and maybe even a miracle that we came out of this with all our limbs in tact. Following this out of body experience I jumped back into the story to enjoy it, and I did, more then I ever anticipated when I set out on this trip July 31st. I really think we made something beautiful, and when we will be tweaking some aspects of the film “fine-tuning” and this film will be great.
I think as a crew and cast there will be so many small moments that we can watch and just be amazed at, I think we all may laugh at a certain line that the public might never see, but overall the room was quite receptive to our film, they laughed and cried with us, and at the end of the day we told them a story, and that is the miracle. The miracle of telling someone a story, to be honest enough to let them laugh and cry, that is why I do this, to impact someone and hopefully they will remember a moment in this story and let it make an impact on their life outside of the Attic Studios.
I enjoyed the Q & A, people asked great questions, we thanked Matt Young for syncing all the sound with out you we would have been making a 5 week feature.
To all who attended thank you.
To all who will attend Sat Night, thank you too
xoxo
Clint
Eat, Sleep, Make a Movie.
PS I uploaded a video to the You Tube of mambo # 5 post screening celebrations so enjoy!
