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spesh2k |
Posted: October 19th, 2014, 7:07pm |
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LocationHarlem USA Posts1186 Posts Per Day 0.20 |
If anyone is attending the Austin Film Festival this coming week, a feature film I wrote and work-shopped on SS, The Suicide Theory, is playing opening night (October 23rd), 10 p.m. @ Alamo Draft Village and again October 27th, 9:30 p.m. @ Bullock Texas State History Museum Texas Spirit Center. The film ended up winning the Grand Jury Prize for best picture @ the Dances With Films Festival in Hollywood, where it was screened at Grauman's Chinese Theaters (one of the most famous cinemas in the world). The film also won the Special Jury Prize, Best Supporting Actor and Best Cinematography @ the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia last month. I will not be in attendance in Austin due to another project I'm working on, but stop by and check out the film, meet the director, producers, etc. Tell them you know me and maybe they'll buy you a beer (maybe).
While I'm at it, a short horror film I wrote and work-shopped on SS about a year ago, The Dead Guy in the Trunk, will be screening twice next month @ Monsterfest in Melbourne, Australia next month. All I know is that the festival is running from Nov. 20-30. Don't have dates and times yet.
-- Michael |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 21st, 2014, 3:47am |
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LocationHarlem USA Posts1186 Posts Per Day 0.20 |
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DustinBowcot |
Posted: October 21st, 2014, 5:12am |
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Demento |
Posted: October 21st, 2014, 5:34am |
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Been Around
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Good job.
BTW, I like this poster better than the last one. I could just do without the green frame, it sticks out too much imo. Ruins the composition. But I think it's a more appropriate poster then the one before, which appeared like a teaser poster.
Good luck on the festival circuit. Any idea when the movie will hit VOD? |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 21st, 2014, 5:44am |
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LocationHarlem USA Posts1186 Posts Per Day 0.20 |
Depends on which distribution company picks up the film. We turned down the grand prize from winning the Dances With Films Festival, which was a distribution deal with Gravitas Ventures. And we turned down four other offers. Austin Film Festival is a pretty big one, hence more exposure, hence more distribution offers. Would be cool to get a limited theater release first, but we shall see.
As for the poster, I really dig this one. The director actually designed the art for this one as a promo poster for our Austin screenings, but think it may stick.
@ Demento - Thanks for the well wishes, man, think you actually read the script like 6 years ago when I had it posted on here.
@ Dustin - Thanks for the kudos, bro. Best of luck to future endeavors. Will be more to come, I'm sure. |
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Toby_E |
Posted: October 21st, 2014, 6:14am |
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Great news, bro! You jetting out for the showings? Any chance of it hitting the UK circuit in the near future?
Awesome poster, as well. Really digging that. |
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DustinBowcot |
Posted: October 21st, 2014, 6:37am |
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Wow, even more great news on the distribution front. Good luck with getting a theatre release. |
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Demento |
Posted: October 21st, 2014, 7:32am |
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@ Demento - Thanks for the well wishes, man, think you actually read the script like 6 years ago when I had it posted on here. |
Yeah I did. I was lurking here for like a month or two. I read a few feature scripts. That was the one that stuck out the most. I really look forward to seeing the movie. Hope it does great. |
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Reef Dreamer |
Posted: October 22nd, 2014, 1:26pm |
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LocationThe Island of Jersey Posts2612 Posts Per Day 0.56 |
all the best Michael. This is so exciting.
please share all that you can.
its great for us to learn more
cheers |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 23rd, 2014, 1:52am |
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LocationHarlem USA Posts1186 Posts Per Day 0.20 |
Thanks, guys. I think after Austin, the producers will focus more on choosing a distributor for the film, though we may be in a few more film fests. None of us expected to get into a film festival as big and important as Austin, but the opportunity will most certainly get us a deal that we can all wrap our arms around. Eventually.
Will keep everyone posted. And just a reminder: The Suicide Theory is playing tonight (10 p.m.) at Alamo Draft Village as part of the Austin Film Festival... awards luncheon is on Saturday, so whether we win anything or not, I'll find out then. But if you're in or around Austin tonight, swing through and check out the film! Tell me what you think!
-- Michael |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 23rd, 2014, 2:04pm |
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Reef Dreamer |
Posted: October 23rd, 2014, 2:17pm |
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LocationThe Island of Jersey Posts2612 Posts Per Day 0.56 |
Just read one of these - wow.
God you must be chuffed (UK term for feeling bloody good)
Well done, hope it keeps going on. |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 23rd, 2014, 2:26pm |
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LocationHarlem USA Posts1186 Posts Per Day 0.20 |
Feeling pretty damn chuffed right now, lol. Can't wait to hear what people think after the screening tonight!
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Grandma Bear |
Posted: October 24th, 2014, 12:18pm |
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How did it go? |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 24th, 2014, 1:55pm |
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LocationHarlem USA Posts1186 Posts Per Day 0.20 |
@ Pia -- Was not in attendance, but I heard it went great... some people I know couldn't get in because the movie was sold out... was very well received by the audience. http://austinfusionmagazine.com/2014/10/23/aff-review-the-suicide-theory/There will be another screening on Monday. Awards luncheon is on Saturday, so I'll find out if we won anything then... -- Michael |
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Grandma Bear |
Posted: October 24th, 2014, 8:36pm |
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I got an email from Blacklist today which mentioned AFF and it made me think of your film. Pretty big time! Hope your film does well and keeping my fingers crossed for a win. |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 24th, 2014, 8:53pm |
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Thanks Pia, the response has been crazy via twitter, social media... I know the AFF staff loved the film... hopefully this gets me more work... |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 27th, 2014, 6:44pm |
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Jeremiah Johnson |
Posted: October 27th, 2014, 6:54pm |
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Michael,
This is all great news and good luck with everything. I would have been in attendance as I live in Texas, but work sent me to New York since July. Good to see your hard work has paid off.
Here's one Texan rootin' fer ya!
Jeff |
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Grandma Bear |
Posted: October 27th, 2014, 10:00pm |
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Really cool! "Dru: A mate of mine had posted a script on a website called Simply Scripts. It’s a website where amateur guys put their scripts up and other filmmakers can critique them, give them advice, and steer them in the right direction. I got a few pages into the script and it wasn’t for me, so I started looking around the website and saw this one (The Suicide Theory) and all the comments. I finished the script really quick and was like, I got to contact this guy (Michael J. Kospiah) and see what’s going on here. That’s a unique script. What you see on the screen is pretty close to what you see on the original script. It is just so bizarre and different." Like I've always said, SS is the best place to get your script exposed to filmmakers! InkTip is nowhere compared, IMHO. Btw, Kevin and I just signed a contract for Scarred. My 1+6WC script the last go around. It will be shot in 2015. I never posted it here, but the connection to the filmmakers was from here. Good luck for your script and hope it will get picked up for a theatrical release! |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 27th, 2014, 11:49pm |
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That's awesome, Pia! Kevin (if it's the Kevin I think it is) is an awesome writer, as are you... great to belong to a community with so much talent (including my boy Shawn aka ledbetter) and talented writers like Phil Clarke, etc... haven't been on this site as much as I would like lately, but the support amongst us fellow writers is important, and I'll continue to give dap to this site no matter how absent I may be (I try to give the site props whenever I do podcast interviews, etc., the q and a in Hollywood after the premiere)... good people... |
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spesh2k |
Posted: October 31st, 2014, 2:05pm |
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spesh2k |
Posted: November 4th, 2014, 12:56pm |
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DustinBowcot |
Posted: November 4th, 2014, 1:23pm |
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Well done. Good luck with distribution. |
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