Well, it’s been a while since I wrote a blog, and obviously a lot has happened. Sudden Death! has been accepted into 22 film festivals thus far, and has already played at 8 of them (and we’re playing at 4 more of them this week).  We’ve won Best Original Music at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Most Innovative Filmmaker at HATCHfest and Best of Fest - Best of International Shorts at the Atlantic Film Festival. So, things are going well so far.

Melanie and I have physically been able to make it to Rhode Island, Temecula Valley International Film Festival, HATCHfest, and this week, Socal Independent Film Fest and the San Diego Film Festival. I won’t go into details right now, but it’s been a great experience thus far. Rhode Island was kind of a crazy whirlwind sort of deal, and it was great to win something at our very first festival. Temecula was just a lot of fun - we had several other friends down there supporting their films as well, so it was nice to be able to hang out with some great other filmmakers at that fest. It was a very well run fest, and it was pretty cool riding in a vintage 1957 Thunderbird up to the red carpet, then getting introduced and flashed by a bunch of cameras. Their awards ceremony was pretty crazy too; Kenny Loggins performed, Raquel Welch and Eric Roberts were there to accept awards, and Stone Cold Steve Austin was a presenter. So, Temecula was a great experience... we had a great audience for our two screenings as well.

Then, HATCHfest in Montana was amazing. They only take 5 films each year, and they paid for us to come out. Then, they treat those 5 filmmakers like royalty. It was a great experience, and we were sad to leave when it was over. Montana is amazing as well. Major thanks to Yarrow, Rosalind, and all the volunteers at HATCH. We also met Phil Rosenthal and his wife, (and friends) - creator of Everybody Loves Raymond - a great producer named John Woldenberg (he produced Phil’s documentary) and Rodrigo Prieto, one of the great working cinematographers. So, yeah, it was an amazing experience.

This week, we’re in San Diego. We’re screening in Huntington Beach on Saturday around the same time as San Diego, so we’re going to San Diego, while Kenny and Kahle are going to Socal. We’re also screening in Louisville and Georgia on the same day, but we obviously won’t be able to make it to those.

Then, we’ve got a few weeks off (we won’t be able to make it to Secret City FF in Tennessee, Jacksonville or our first screening at Fort Lauderdale) until the very prestigious Hollywood Film Festival in late October, and then NewFilmmakers LA, which will also be great. We’ll be attending both of those.

After that, things get really crazy. The Savannah Film Fest has been gracious enough to put us up for their festival in early November, so from there we’re going to rent a car and hit the Orlando Film Festival, our second screening at Fort Lauderdale, and the Greater Reading Film Festival (and maybe one other... we’re waiting to hear) all in a period of two weeks. Should be fun... and exhausting.

And then, we go to St. Louis for Thanksgiving... and we’ll see, we might be cooking up a screening in STL. We’ll see.

Yep, so things are crazy, but great. More info as it comes!