Hello there. I have a few spare moments so I thought I'd get down some impressions of the first day of IFW before the memories evaporate.

Yesterday we had six good meetings with a range of distributors, networks, and production companies. Everyone wants to see a rough cut of the film, which is what I expected (no one wants to bring out their checkbook for an unedited bunch of footage -- no one yet, I should say, two more full days of meeting to come). Still, that's not bad news. Our rough cut will be ready by the end of the year. Then we'll show it to them and they will buy the film for 10 million dollars (give or take). Yesterday was not without a couple of technical snafus. While attempting to show our 2-minute trailer to Josh Green of Emerging Pictures I found that the DVDs I'd burned solely for that purpose wouldn't play on our laptop. Do'h! Was I embarrassed. After a profanity-laced tirade aimed at no one I was able to regain my composure and continue the meeting undeterred.

In the afternoon Josh Melrod and I met with Bret Granato, who's editing the film. I handed him all the media for Cartoon College. Due to time constraints I gave him all the masters, but still managed to sleep fine last night in spite of the fact that if anything were to happen to those tapes I'd have to start over from scratch.

Our first meeting of the day was canceled (nothing personal I was told, the company is going through personnel changes) so I got to stand and talk with Doug Block for a while, which was fun. His new doc, a sequel to 51 Birch Street, Almost Gone, sounds cool.

Got to make some stuff happen now, so more to come, including, hopefully, pictures.

Portions of this post ghost written by Josh Melrod.

# posted by Tara Wray @ 9/16/2008 11:13:00 AM

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