The title may be uninspired, but so is this blog. And yet, I’ve decided to try blogging twice a month and posting a video once a month again and it’s already almost the end of the month, so. Here we are.
I’m posting this blog today and not at a more inspired time because it has been a mad dash of a month for me. Last year around this time I’d found a new therapist and had plans essentially every other night with friends and potential collaborators. This year I spent the month working at Stareable (where we’ve been slammed) and preparing for my next short film shoot, which will take place NEXT WEEKEND! Safe to say I’ve been keeping busy.
The short film is called “Buy In,” a psychological horror film co-written by me and my good pal Colin Hinckley, about a predatory traveling salesman and a lonely traveler. It’ll be our most cramped set yet, with three actors and three to four crew members crammed in a single tiny hotel room, and our most ambitious shoot, at 19 pages with tons of set ups. I feel good, though. We’ve all worked together before and we’ve planned, as always, within an inch of our lives.
I’ll be directing, something I’ve been wanting to do more of ever since I had such a blast on Ace and Anxious. Speaking of Ace and Anxious, I’ve gotten to attend two screenings for in the past two weeks. If you’re curious, you can peep a live Q&A I did after one of them here:
I feel… good-adjacent about this year. I’m set to wrap principal photography of a new short film before the end of the first month, with scripts for at least two more projects ready to go. Both shows I’m producing are solidly in pre-production, one of which has shoot dates planned already and one of which that’s currently finalizing casting. Work is busy but going well, and my latest web series airs its season finale in a week. I am dedicated to making this year my most creatively fulfilling one yet, and so far, I’m as on track as possible.
I’ll probably do one of my sappy thank you blogs about Buy In for my second blog of the year, so look out for that on like the 30th I guess.
This has been a waste of space blog, but it counts, and we’re all just gonna have to live with that.
