April 30:
[Guerrilla Productions] April 2004 news
Greetings, Dreamers!
Welcome to the irregular newsletter
from Guerrilla Productions.
What's the news, what's the news:
"Innsmouth Legacy"
http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Innsmouth.html
We might have our sites locked up, which would be good. I'm going
to head out there in the next weekend or two to make sure and get
site releases and such. If so, then we're going to start nailing down
the Production Schedule for shooting. Some more casting and crew decisions
are being made. We still haven't been able to cast the two female
parts, Katherine and Jennifer. The problematic part is matching the
eyes. I've started working on one of the more interesting props and
it's turning out very cool.
"The Testament of Tom Jacoby"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400881/
http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Testament.html
We had a nice showing of this at the Longbaugh Film Festival, except
for the credits being cut along the edge. This was my fault, however,
and I've since repaired the file.
"The Dream-Quest of Unknown
Kadath"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384057/
http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Dreamquest.html
Sales are still brisk -- we're approaching the halfway-gone point
of the discs. As an experiment, we recently ran an add on the webcomic
Something
Positive, which was very productive for us.
"Con of the Dead"
http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_ConOfTheDead.html
Norwescon
hosts our annual Let's Make A Movie workshop and this year, with two
hit movies featuring dead people coming back to life, we decided it
was time for a Norwescon zombie movie. This parody of the genre came
out surprisingly well, considering the bizarre time constraints of
the workshop. We wrote it in two hours, shot it in about 2.5 hours,
edited it for 4 hours and voila. There were a few tweaks here and
there, but basically, this all happened in eight hours spread across
a weekend long science fiction convention. Way fun! So, if you're
in the Pacific Northwest and you feel like doing this with us, by
all means stay tuned to Norwescon's website.
"Shadowdog"
http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Shadowdog.html
Okay, this was just spooky. I showed this to a small audience earlier
this month at Norwescon
and the response was wild. I mean, amazingly enthusiastic. They laughed,
then they clapped, then they cheered. All this for less than one minute?!
I've definitely tapped into some kind of funky zeitgeist, man... I
showed it to Andrew Migliore and it seems pretty likely it'll officially
premiere at the Lovecraft Film Festival next Autumn. Yay!
"Vows"
http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Vows.html
We showed our new short movie "Vows" to a small audience
at Norwescon
and the response was good. It confirmed a few things that we had already
suspected about the timing, etc. This was a recent one-night shoot,
although it took a while for the props and preproduction work. Vows
isn't commercially available yet -- it'll probably be a freebie on
our next feature's DVD.
"Broccoli Man"
Well, this isn't one of our movies, but if you keep your eyes peeled
on the Broccoli
Man website, you might eventually see that Mike is planning and
shooting a number of short movies featuring Broccoli Man. In one of
them is a lumbering herd of zombies and one of the most particularly
spastic zombies happens to be yours truly. This was loads of fun and
I cannot recommend broccoli and broccoli-related movies enough. Nor
can I recommend enough saying "Yes!" when someone asks you
"Hey, can you spend a day being a zombie for my movie?"
(hint, hint!)
Okay, enough news, I gotta get back to doing Unspeakable Things.
Have fun, dream vividly, and wake
up wondering if you're still asleep!
Cheers,
Edward
(Thanks to Edward Martin)