Sundance

2012. This time it really snowed, enough to shut down some highways and blast a person's face with brisk pellets of frozen water - brr. It was a Sundance of lots of parties, inspiring panels, and the long wait lines to get in "Liberal Arts" was a great film, got picked up by IFC for distribution by weeks end. Good news.

Wanted to live stream from the festival, but like everything else Sundance you have to go with the flow, so these pics will have to do. Met some great people and hopefully made the connections that will translate into a future for our Moms and Pops film project.

Morning snow.

Fresh dusting of the flaky stuff.

Cary and Laura on the road to Park City.

Back to work, back to our webseries. We're glad to be home.

Lina Hal, Dorian Martin and The Road to Pitch at Sundance

WINNER OF A DIFFERENT STRAW POLL
Actress LINA HALL recently joined our cast as the mystery woman in the SPENT TV series LLA. With the next episode set to shoot the last weekend of January, cast and crew are psyched to have her aboard. Hall was recently named one of LA Theaters BEST ACTORS OF 2011 in Producer/Director/Critic Joe Straw's annual THE LAST STRAW AWARDS. Hall was recognized for her illuminating performance as screen legend Greta Garbo in the Macha Theatre production of GARBO'S CUBAN LOVER (directed by SPENT'S very own LAURA  A. BUTLER) which enjoyed an extended run late last year.  Her castmate LISA MERKIN was also recognized for her work as the manipulative socialite Salka Viertel.  Here's to Lina's continued success!

DORIAN MARTIN - ACTOR AND NOVELIST
Speaking of our series LLA,  another one of the many talented cast members DORIAN MARTIN is not only a good actor, but a novelist as well. His book RACKLE'S TUB is available now on AMAZON.
You can check out the website for the novel and also the blog.  One reviewer said "Rackles Tub grabs hold of you as soon as you start reading. It is drama, science fiction, sex, drugs, rock and roll, adrenaline... all packed into a gritty novel that holds nothing back." An amazing actor and amazing writer. Congrats, Dorian!

THE PITCH AT SUNDANCE


SPENT heads for Park City, Utah and the Sundance Film Festival Friday Jan. 20th at midnight. You read it right - midnight. We're hitting the road safari style. It's a 10 to 11 hour drive that will take us directly through Warren Jeff's polygamy territory and past the tallest thermometer in the continental US! Can't wait to share these exciting "visuals" with you guys. 


Besides seeing some fantastic films, attending some great filmmaker panels and throwing snowballs at random passers-by, we are pitching our feature project MOMS AND POPS. It's a revenge thriller, where tragedy rockets three ordinary people into an extraordinary circumstance. The script was a second round qualifier in the 2010 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab competition. So we're hoping for synchronicity's sake that pitching an almost Sundance Lab project at Sundance will bring us financing, fabulous actors and of course, distribution. Crazy huh? It almost sounds like we have altitude fever and we aren't even there yet!


In any case, the fantastic part of Sundance are the films, the filmmakers and the inspiration that comes from being around other creatives just trying to make their own dreams come true. So if we come back with a promised 1.95 million or not, we are still going to love it!


So think good thoughts for us as we're slushing through the snow in the close to zero weather, while we try to get someone, anyone to finance our project!