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For this film, we’ve had some pretty memorable screenings so far. A quick laundry list of the most important ones include:
- First rough Cut watched front to back on the living room TV.
- Edmund, Tommy & Danielle Screening in Santa Cruz
- Showing Jon Blow and Ron Carmel in Ron’s living room
- Showing Phil Fish in Montreal
- Premiering at Sundance
Each one was equal parts scary and rewarding for various reasons. For the record, the most emotional were showing the people in the film - nothing can prep you for the very odd process of presenting your version of someone’s life back to them. Showing the guys in the film was one of the most rewarding things we’ve ever experienced in our lives.
The Sundance premiere was insanely stressful and crazy, but in a different way. Sundance is a machine, a wonderful machine. But it’s this frenzied torrent of activity with many moving parts. The whole process is so busy, so intense that nerves tend to steel themselves almost as a coping mechanism.
Sitting watching the Sundance showing, we both became extremely self-conscious of the film. Every audience fidget, throat clearing or - God forbid - bathroom break was immediately interpreted as indictment of a seriously crappy movie. It’s very easy to get in an odd head space at your film’s premiere. It was really strange and confusing. Every other Sundance showing was pure jouy, but we’ve never felt more like a vulnerable artist than at the Sundance premiere.
The Winnipeg Show: Three days after we returned from our Sundance debut, we thought it’d be fun to do a small little hometown friend’s n’ family preview show. That small show ended up growing into two completely, utterly sold out shows of 320 people each on February 3rd.
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