Whew! We knew it had been a long time since we'd posted an update, but didn't know it had been SO long. Here's a look at where we are with our current projects (and some new ones):
El Caffinato: With the one year anniversary of the festival premiere of
El Caffinato fast approaching, our first short's festival run has come to a close. In the next few weeks, we'll be providing download links for a high definition version of the film to our Kickstarter backers. With nine festival acceptances in all, we're very proud of how our first short has done in the past year. At some point in 2013, we'll likely put a version of the film up online for general viewing.
Written On Your Face: During a wildly busy couple weeks in late June and early July, we completed the production stage of our second short,
Written On Your Face. Thanks to a fabulous cast and crew, we walked away from the shoot with a lot of fabulous footage and have been working hard on post production since then. This first stage of post has been very hermetic, mostly involving the two of us huddling around a laptop screen cutting and recutting. Two weeks ago, we hit a milestone in that process when we completed a first rough cut of the film from start to finish. We've been watching and starting to tweak that rough cut since then, and soon we will send off a first working cut to our musicians to being the next stage of post production. Expect more updates soon. We're also at work on redoing the website for that short. We've temporarily taken down the link to the first version of that film's website, and hope to announce the relaunch soon. In case you haven't gotten to see them yet, you can get a little preview of the film (of sorts) by checking out the behind-the-scenes photos on the website of our wonderful still photographer,
Nick Graetz.
Carrboro Film Festival: Meanwhile, we've also been helping out with this year's
Carrboro Film Festival (the same festival at which
El Caffinato premiered last year) by serving on the selection committee. We got to see some great films as part of that committee, and we're really happy with the slate of films that will be shown in November. If you are local to the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area, be sure to mark you calendars for November 18th - the festival starts at 1 pm!
This year's festival will also feature a new project that we're producing! That's right, as part of the Festival Committe, we've also been involved in the scripting and production of the Carrboro Film Festival Opener, a three minute short that will kick off the festival. We'll hold off on revealing the details, since you'll get to see some footage from it (and the short itself) before too long. We will say that we're very fortunate to be working with the very talented
Mike Wiley and also pleased to be working with
Nic Beery once again.
In a little bit of news not strictly related to Miner Light Productions, we are still very happy to report that
Johnny Awful will be one of the many great shorts being shown at the Carrboro Film Festival this year. We helped as casting director, art director and assistant director on this project (don't worry - we weren't allowed to vote on whether it got in or not), and it is the directorial debut of Nathan Rosenquist, the cinematographer we worked with on
Written On Your Face. We're really happy for Nathan and excited to see this fun short on the big screen in November.
