Ben here (I imagine it will be just me for a while…)

The syncing is all done, and for the past few weeks I’ve been putting together actual scenes! After two years of writing, a year of development and fundraising, several months of casting, a month of shooting and the aforementioned two months of syncing, I can finally hit play and see the movie unfolding… and it feels sweet.

I paused there, trying to think of a better word to describe the feeling, but to be honest it’s too complex to find a single word. It’s certainly “exciting,” but at the same time I have so much riding on this film, in every sense (artistically, financially, emotionally, I promised the devil one of my cats…) that I still don’t feel a sense of “accomplishment.” I don’t think that will come until (hopefully) one day I’m sitting in a theater knowing we have distribution and decent reviews and are going to break even, and I’m watching an audience of complete strangers enjoying our movie. (more…)