New digs, end of filming, some ships on the horizon

Moved into a new place this weekend and am enjoying the hell out of it. Setting aside some work space and hoping to delve back into some s8 and 8mm projects I placed on hold a few years back. Picked up an old Kodak splice kit, 2 8 mm cameras, a s8 camera and an automated viewer and some film and am ready to go. 

Finished my 1st comedic feature-length script last week and will be sitting down with Bill this week to do a read through of the 2nd draft so we can kick in some new scenes and check the flow of the story. 

Also meeting with a potential investor for the Ginkers project and am hoping to secure some finishing funds that should allow my crew to recoup a little of the money they have put out for equipment as well as pay for our festival trips.

Production ended on the film 2 weeks ago and we are setting up the editing schedule now that Eric has a new home and space to work. Have blue-printed a working outline to guide the parallel story arcs for Scott and the story of burnout culture and trying to dovetail them into something. I still haven't viewed 50% of our footage from the Ciraulo brothers, the last Scott shoot and most of Colie's. Once that is in my sight-line, the rest of the movie should become clearer. 

I will be uploading the last of my on-set stills sometime soon. 

Some pictures from Connie's

Filming is now complete. Thanks to everyone who supported the production, came out to shoots, sent emails, posted on our blogs, invited us to screen film, or helped in any way. Some specific thanks to my crew for their tireless efforts to see this film through; Matt Ziegler and Eric Mosher the cameramen, Bill Schlavis our sound engineer, Alex Burke our makeup artist, Vince Carpio for your work on the first Scott shoot,  and finally Emily Webster, for all of your prior work and getting me launched and ready to do this. Without a crew that was willing to drive and work their only off days from other jobs, this film would have been nothing.

Some other people who started out as strangers and worked their way nicely into our weird little world are deserved of recognition and thanks as well. John Matthews has spread the Ginker word far and wide and has supported us from the jump. He has made it out to several shoots and even partook in karaoke himself in addition to providing early commentary and interviews that we are editing now. Herman, Colie, Chris York, Billy Marx, Melanie Rodriguez, The Ciraulo Brothers all put in several hours, (in some cases weeks of work) being interviewed and probed. Scott, our featured subject gets thanks for his continual Bruce Lee-like approach to commentary and interview matters. He allowed us into his home and invited us to his performances, he did just about all that a person can do to see his story be told while never truly revealing all of who he is. 

Dozens more contributed pictures and stories early on in order to get this moving. Thank you to everyone and to anyone we have not mentioned by name as well. 

We will be in full editing mode from now until August and will post here periodically with information on festivals and screenings in the Jersey and NYC areas. 

Jesse Denherder and Charlie Shaffer, Thanks

An identity package put together by Jesse Denherder was published in MEISHI, a new hardcover with examples of artistic cards from 28 countries around the world. Congrats to Jesse for his creative genius. I have said it before, anyone who is interested in unique and personalized service for any business, identity or creative branding, check out denherderdesign.com for your needs. Jesse is your man...

Also, quick thank you to Charlie Shaffer. I know he doesn't want the spotlight, but he designed the iconic camera that is on the card a few years back. Thanks, man.

Rucksack continues filming this Sunday at Connie's in Sayreville. Anyone interested in seeing the end of production and hearing some karaoke, come on down. Drinks may or not be on us, we'll check the funds.

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RFH Film Fest is a wrap

Brought a cut of "Ginkers" to the Rumson-Fair Haven film festival last week and was able to screen it two times to a decently filled auditorium. After each screening there was a Q & A portion that lasted about 30 minutes where I fielded probing and excellent questions from the crowd. The response to the film was overly positive and it was heartening to see Scott and the rest of the subjects on the big screen. 

Big thank you to everyone at RFH for the wonderful introductions, questions and screening time.

June is for lovers

Made it out to Stokaboka last night for the premiere of  their movie night series that runs the last Saturday of each month. Admission is free, so is the popcorn and water. An easy mix of locals convened in the lot and witnessed a 16mm surf flick documentary in the comfort of their beach chairs. Mike Boylan did a great job. Anyone interested in surfing or films should definitely come out.

Editing for the RFH and Count Basie cuts of our film are being finalized today by Eric Mosher, our resident cameraman/editor/haiku writer. We added a prologue to the header which will serve as a proxy for the narration we intend to overlay on the finished feature-length version. 

We are also planning two more re-shoots with Scott that will round his story out as well as a 2-3 minute trailer that we might show at one of the Stokaboka movie nights if all works out.