Well, there’s been a bit of a hiatus. We’ve all had a common hiatus, of course. When the pandemic hit over a year ago now, I was expecting to push one of my new screenplays, Walk With Me Into The Darkness, into a summertime shooting schedule. That quickly went overboard when the filmmaking world froze up.
I spent the first few months trying to stay active, editing my small pile of unproduced screenplays, hosting Zoom readings with students to keep engaged as much as I could. Then when summer hit and there was no end in sight to the virus, a new story came to me. One that could be set during these times, one that was contained enough to shoot safely during these times. With the help of my producing partner, Richard King, I gained enough steam to forge ahead. A month later there was a screenplay, and we were investigating how and where we might get it off the ground.
A few months later we were prepping a shoot in Binghamton, NY, with a growing team of extremely talented collaborators. And by February, there we were, crazily, on a feverish 15 day shoot in some extreme conditions, getting it done. I’m proud to say made it through without a single positive case of COVID, and a hell of a film in the can.
I’m a few cuts into my edit, and also busying finalizing the musical score before we send it into sound and color finishing, and ready it for next year's festival circuit. It hopefully will time out that people will be back in movie theaters, and celebrating festivals in person. I can’t wait to share our work.