Shriekfest 2012!!

Got the call earlier today -- I was pretty stoked about this one because they let me in on very, very, very short notice.  As in, missed the deadline by 7 days... So I'm good to be where I am right now.

My days are looking well, let's just hope my health continues along with it.   :-/

Here's to going all the way with it!  I love the script, the hook, the idea and the tone of it... It's one of my favorite scripts.

Congrats, Balt.

Seems like you're on a roll.  Fingers crossed for health too.

Jeez Balt, you're really doing well for yourself.

Congrats and all the best :)

Congrats!

You're lucky since I have to wait. Submitted a feature. :(

Balt, is Mourning a short or a feature?  Congrats, by the way.

It is a great name for a story. Clever.

Thanks to everyone in advance...

Quoted from alffy Congrats, Balt. Seems like you're on a roll. Fingers crossed for health too.

A lot of this, truth be told, has been a slow build up... I've spent the last 4 years working very close with two consultants and really just trying to focus on 10 of my very best projects.

Frostbite is a product of much of the past 4 years work -- But I've got a few more scripts lined up that should do very well very soon, too.  My thing, and I try and always preach it, never show what you have... Tease it.  Build it... But pull back until it is absolutely ready to be seen and shown in full.

Quoted from danbotha Jeez Balt, you're really doing well for yourself. Congrats and all the best :)

Screenwriting was never my focus -- I've studied it, went to schools, seminars and all of that during my 20's, but it was never something I wanted to do.  I never had the ambition to pursue it until about 4 years ago... Up until then I was a personal trainer and a guitarist in a band.  4 years later I'm speaking with people who can actually get things done and moving up in the public eye thanks to Page and now Shriekfest... A lot of people say steer clear of contest, but I've had more buzz in my e-mail and on phone the last 2 months than ever before.

Quoted from Mr.Ripley Congrats!� You're lucky since I have to wait. Submitted a feature. :(

That makes me feel bad... I hafta believe mine went through because of it being a short and not a feature length script.  I hope so anyways.   :-/

Quoted from Ryan1 Balt, is Mourning a short or a feature? �Congrats, by the way.

It's a short, 40 page script... I've worked on it for sometime now -- Mainly during my off times of Frostbite and No Such thing.  I usually focus on one feature and then juggle two shorts on the side to keep me from getting burnt out or bored.  I felt, since I couldn't get a feature length script together for the contest, this one was going to do well... It was down to this or another script I was working on at the time called "Ornaments".  I felt "Mourning At Midnight" would've probably been a better fit for the competition, though.  And usually what I do is write all of my initial features as shorts and then, if I see enough flaws in them, or feel they ran too short or felt rushed  that is when I start expanding them outwards.

Quoted from leitskev It is a great name for a story. Clever.

I actually used the name "Mourning At Midnight" for a zombie flick I wrote about seven years ago -- I re-named it and used the name, instead, for this script as it was a better fit I felt.  The zombie script was a 5 story anthology piece where a varied group all told their stories and their version of where they were at midnight and how they got to where they were... I was gonna re-write it, but I canned it for the time being.

Congratulations, Balt! Writing-wise, things seem to be going great for you lately. I hope your health picks up soon.

Wow, what's that saying, you wait and wait and then all the buses come at once...is that it? Nevermind, congrats Baltis. :)

Denise called and let me know my script just made finals!  I'm excited about my odds here.  Spent a good amount of time making it a stand out peice... Frostbite, you're next "crosses fingers".

Good one Balt - here's to you going the full hog - good luck!

Balt, you're rocking it out, brother...kind of like a hot guitar lick that just resonates through the brain.

Keep it going...fingers and toes are crossed, man.  Make it real!

Congrats man.

It's a shame we can't read frostbite :(

Thanks for the support -- Probably as far as I can go with it, but it's bound to make someone interested at a production level I hope.  It's certainly doable on very little budget and the tone of the script would play off really well on screen given the right director.  

It's almost like taking a little Twilight Zone, throwing it into a blender with some of David Lynch's work and mixing it up with a bit of Identity.  < but not too much.  Just a little bit.

Has a super call back at the end of it that it actual ends on.  Two of them, actually.

Quoted from Mr.Ripley Congrats man. It's a shame we can't read frostbite :(

If all goes well you'll be seeing it in 2015.  We'll see...  ??)  Good things are being said and I'm talking to the right people now -- FINALLY... This is a script that needs to be seen, that I can tell you and I say that because it's been told to me by pretty important folks.  We'll leave it at that for now.  A win at Page, or even a finalist spot, will boost it up there even further, though.  I'm really pulling for that script to do well because I put a helluva lot of time, money and work into it.  It's not the apex of my work "Coffin Canyon" is -- But it's neck and neck.

Gday Balt,

Scraped in by the hair on your chinny chin chin. That's good to hear.

Hope the ticker is going Ok as last I recall you where going to have a break from all of us.

PM'd you a week or two back and left it as i thought you may have been sidetracked.

Alex

Super Congrats Balt! Keep us posted!