Spain Colored Orange signed on!

I'm very excited to report Spain Colored Orange, a hip, psychadelic/jazz band out of Houston, Texas, has signed on to compose the score for our upcoming trailer. I'm a big fan of their musical style. It's a throwback to the days of bigger bands with real instruments, but it has a cool, edgy sound to it. It's going to be great to hear their stuff on the trailer.

What trailer? Austin Film Festival holds a trailer competition for their film festival and screenwriting conference. The trailer has to promote the festival and conference in a suitable for general audiences way. Trailers can only be one minute long, which is challenging, but there's no entry fee. The winner gets publicity in the festival program AND is screened before every movie at the festival. Oh, and the folks at Austin Film Fest transfer the trailer to 35mm and the winner gets to keep a print! If you want more info about the trailer competition you can find it at www.austinfilmfestival.com They also have info on the screenplay/teleplay competitions AND their film competitions.

As much as I'd like to tell you specifics about my trailer, I won't. I don't want to spoil the surprise. I will tell you that my crew is shaping up nicely. John Hays, the go-to sound guy for SoCal is going to be my dp. Other SoCal members signed on include: Steve Barr who'll be editing AND acting; Danny Grossman is producing AND acting; Joey Anderson is ADing; Mike Manning is lighting; Ryan Polito is the sound master; Marshall M. is consulting (really); my kids, though not really SoCal members, will be production assistants. I think that's all for now. You can see how many members it takes just to shoot a one minute short.

The rest of the cast: Christina Mauro, Jeremy Juuso, Dave Garrett, Lola Teigland, Chris White (topfive.com) and hopefully, some other cool cameos.

That's it for now. I have a shot list to prepare.

Susan