I'll tell you...it's tough times as a filmmaker.
I don't think I'm alone either. I see it all over the country.
To be honest, I'm broke. I don't any money coming in. Don't have a job; and can't find one here in farm country. Want to move somewhere to get some work; but can't afford to move. So for now, I'm stuck out here in the boonies, with no money.
But I am getting things done.
Thankfully, my Mother Opal is a great film subject! It's hard as hell to manage all these projects....it's maddening, really.
I've been trying like hell these last 2 months to sell Mother's new STRIPPER book online. We aren't making money yet; but at least it's getting out there to the world for them to know about it.
Trying to find a good agent for our new feature screenplay PHONE SEX GRANDMA, based off the hit short...
Working as much as is possible on production of THE OLD STRIPPER, my first feature documentary, about Mother's old stripping days....been shooting this going on 3 years....
Trying to get pre-production done for JUNK, a feature unscripted comedy that can be filmed easily out here in the boonies....plus trying to sell the pilot TV script for JUNK...a rockin' script, if I can say so myself....
Working here and there on self-distribution of THE X-RATED GRANDMA....
Finishing post for our new comedy short PAYDAY LOAN, which we'll be pushing this next year as our Oscar qualifying short....
And working my first 5 short films worldwide on the festival circuit; along with getting ready soon to making 4 of the shorts available online on DVD through self-distribution!
Busy times, huh?
Along with all of this, when I can find time, I need to start writing my upcoming book NO BUDGET FILMMAKING....who knows when that'll be!
I'll tell ya...it was so much easier when I just had my first film, the hit short PHONE SEX GRANDMA, that I was working. Now I can't seem to get about anything done. But I keep busy non-stop, with film projects, even though I am broke.
John Steinbeck was right...he said 'Ideas are like rabbits. You get 1 or 2, get to know how to handle them, then pretty soon, you have a dozen."
How true that is....
Get Mother's book STRIPPER at:
http://thoughtsofastripper.webs.com
Watch the new Book Trailer for STRIPPER on YouTube at:
Find out more about our first feature film THE OLD STRIPPER at:
