1. The Lie Assignment · One Grand Film Skool

1. The Lie Assignment

1] I have played the "Proof of Concept" Lottery. I must say it's been bitter/sweet. I made a 30 min short POC that I sent through the festival circuit racking up 55 wins and 19 nominations and appearing in over 93 festivals. We secured development money and wrote the feature version and currently have a group of EP's seeking funding to make the feature. BUT... it's dragging on and on and on... and I don't sit still well.

2] We raised the funds for the short and festival run, so while that didn't cost me any $, the project cost me lots of time. Time away from Work, time and energy away from personal projects. All in I spent the better part of 6 months editing, color correcting and doing VFX on the film. then I spent countless hours sending the film to festivals, getting files, and posters and DCP's in the right hands, building websites and social media sites and developing a presence for the film.

3] My biggest take away from the "Lie" video is a) I should bypass all that bs and jump into making a feature to have some real and tangible assets b) I love the Brit story and her quote about building your own Kingdom and stealing everything from the kingdom at the top of the hill.

4] My biggest concern is "unlearning" everything I know about production so that I can put together my own $1000 film. Coming from a Commercial and professional film background I will need to learn to loosen the structure to make this work. I'm excited to give it a go!

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