A Slight Update

Just to let everyone "in the know" on what's been happening with the film, this friday (black friday to be exact) we're having a local preview screening for the film and I hope to premiere it at a larger festival next year. I've got a little interest from a couple fests but we'll see how it all goes.

As well as pursuing distribution for the film, I also hope to self-release the film on DVD in a very limited edition which I might be announcing very soon. As far as DIY distribution goes for me, the reasons are both financial and quality-related. To be quite honest, foremost in my mind was quality because with Scars of Youth I want a top-shelf release in a 16:9 progressive transfer (downcoverted from the 1080p HD source), Dolby 5.1 audio with all the special edition trimmings. Also, when you make a film at a certain budget it almost makes sense to self-release given the current indie film climate, which can at times be as desolate as any post-apocalyptic landscape

Two Boots Pioneer Closes

Sadly, the East Village's Two Boots Pioneer Theater just closed with a Halloween night screening of Night of the Living Dead. They gave my first film Frankensteins Bloody Nightmare a week-long run in 2006 and for that I shall be eternally gratetful to both Ray and the ole' Pioneer.

I was there for the week of FBN (along with some of the other films that screened around it) and what I saw was really pure class. The Pioneer could screen 16mm, 35mm or video, and I've been to more than a few festivals and smaller theatres where the video projection is handled really haphazardly but in the case of Pioneer it all seemed to go relatively smoothly and I was impressed by the little details such as the interesting choice of entry music, which changed given the type of film they were showing.

So I hope in the future something can come of the place and I hope that the adjoining video store with the big Swinger's Massacre poster keeps going as well.