We've come a long way baby!

Tonight’s the big night, the long-awaited unveiling of Mismo.  It’s been quite a journey; one that I hope will lead to bigger and better things for everyone who participated in the film. 

And while I’m looking forward, I can’t help but reflect on where we began, which was in a Scary Cow meeting almost three years ago.  Gino and I, like everyone else who joined that community of indie filmmakers, were thrown into a team to make a two-minute trailer.  The idea was that teams would compete and vote on the trailers for technical and story merit.   The winning teams were awarded dollars and advanced to the next round of filmmaking.

As Gino reflects in his Director’s Statement, the making of a film is really the making of three films… and the same applies even to a trailer!  Each person in our team presented an idea and mine was voted the one everyone wanted to work on… and so I wrote a script.  Film number one.

Then came the filming of the script… and since we couldn’t get certain locations, we had to adjust, for example the inside of a pawnshop became a Fence on the street.   Film number two.

And then… editing began and we were under the gun.  Film number three.

And for your viewing pleasure… here are the results! 



Boy, we’ve come a long way:)