The Lionshare wins an Indie, plus DVD news

I was notified the other day by mail that The Lionshare has won an award from The Indie Fest.  Very cool to win an award for something we all worked so hard on.  The coolest part to me, though, is now I get to plaster this little logo to the left on everything in sight.  When you win something you tape it to your face, or something like that.  This also comes just in time for the DVD packaging, which I am about to begin designing.  Speaking of the DVD…

I’ve been chugging along on getting the DVD finished.  I’ve been working to make sure that there’s as much extra content on the disc as possible so that people will really get something special when they buy it.  I recorded a commentary track last week over a few glasses of wine, and aside from realizing that I smack my lips way too often, I think it came out pretty good.  Commentary tracks are one of my favorite features on DVDs, and I’ve listened to my fair share, so I was very excited about getting the chance to record my own and I wanted it to be a good one.  Though I have to say I think it owes a lot, in tone and style, to Ronald D. Moore’s podcast commentaries for Battlestar Galactica.  So thanks, Ron.  (Did I ever mention that he mentioned me, by name, in one of those podcasts?  Apparently I started a trend of gifting him scotch and cigarettes.)

But anyway, yeah, all I have left are the chapter sub-menus, finishing the subtitles, and designing the packaging.  One of the cool features, I think, is a short featurette about BitTorrent and the future of media that I culled from the free footage made available by the makers of Steal This Film.  Here’s that, also available in HD if you follow to the YouTube page:

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