Anyone go to Hell’s Half Mile Fest?

Did anyone who went to the Hell’s Half Mile Film and Music Festival catch one of the Lionshare screenings? Let us know what you thought!

HHF Fest Screening Dates

The Hell’s Half Mile Film and Music Festival website has posted the screening schedule. The Lionshare will be showing

Friday, October 2
9:00 pm
Masonic Temple
700 N. Madison Ave
Bay City, MI 48708

and

Saturday, October 3
6:00 pm
State Theater
913 Washington Ave.
Bay City, MI 48708

They’re showing the movie at a Masonic Temple?  Awesome.

‘The Lionshare’ at HHF Film & Music Festival

I’ve just been notified via email that we’ve been accepted to the Hell’s Half Mile Film & Music Festival in Bay City, Michigan. From their website:

HHM Fest is more than an event for those who simply appreciate film and music.  It’s a grassroots effort to develop a community that participates in the arts.  The festival idea developed from a “wouldn’t it be great…” conversation, into “we can do it” action.  We hope our actions will inspire others to develop new arts and culture opportunities in our community.

…

It’s our 4th year of fighting for independent film and live original music, and we have one “hell” of a line up of features, docs, shorts, animated, student and foreign language films. Plus, a Saturday night of music at the old Masonic Temple with bands Oh My God (Chicago), Baby Teeth (Chicago) and Champions of Breakfast (Detroit).

Help us fight for independent film and music.  Plan to attend HHM Fest-4 October 1-4, 2009.  For information on advance ticket and pass sales please contact info@hhmfest.com.

Sounds good to me!  Doubtful we will be in attendance, but it’d be pretty cool…we’ll see what happens.

Bronx Independent Film Festival Screening (Updated)

UPDATE: Apparently there was some mistake and the movie is actually screening on Saturday, June 20th, not Thursday.

I was notified by email very late last night that the movie has been selected to screen as part of the Bronx Independent Film Festival.  It will be screening on Thursday, June 18 Saturday, June 20 after several short films beginning at 7:30.  (By my calculations, The Lionshare should begin at approximately 9:30.  But don’t quote me on that.)  Here are the details:

WHEN:  Thursday, June 18 Saturday, June 20 at 7:30 PM

WHERE:  The Lovinger Theater at CUNY Lehman College

250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Bronx, NY 10468.

Here’s the listing on their website: http://www.bronxstage.com/html/films/the_lionshare.html

Sure, a lot of it’s wrong and/or incomplete, but it’s up there!

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: