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THE VIEW FROM BELOW THE SUITES

Cary and I have been at this for a few years now. Forever riding the roller-coaster of writing, directing, producing and hope. This week, we found ourselves at AFM, the American Film Market, pitching our first feature project. First in the sense, that our other 'first' feature project "Secrets of the Son" fell apart when the financier dropped out a few years back.

So, we've been down this road before, like all the other indie filmmakers out there. You get close, you fall back, you get closer, you fall back, you get right to the precipice and are about to take the leap, and yep, again, you fall back. It isn't a creative ride for those weak at heart, nor for those nay-sayers who give up easily. It is a ride for those who believe in the stories they tell, in the visions they dream and are intellectually insane on some level.

AFM is an interesting place because it brings the hopefuls and heathens from all over the world together. It is a melting pot of creativity and a scammers heaven all at the same time.

We did the research before hand, which was helpful. Our associate producer DANIELLE FLORES, Cary and I put together a list of companies that worked with our budget range, at least dabbled in our action/drama/thriller genre, and then we did the six-degrees- of separation thing, trying to email those whom we had six-degree business relationships with.

Success! We got three meetings. Three meetings to beg, plead and cajole someone into giving us money. And at all three, the answer was yes to reading the script. The people we met with were diverse in age, and all related to the concept. In fact all loved the concept of our project.

And I will tell you, when someone who has the potential to give you the 1.7 million benjamins you are asking for says they love the concept and want to read your script, you about piss your pants.

It was a great day on Tuesday. We felt good, like creative people do when the stories they create connect with he total strangers of the world.

And now the next part. They wait game. The stretch of time never juts right, always to long, never predictable that you wait for that one person you met in a stuffy suite on a hot day (or that person's assistant) to say yes or no. Or even maybe.

That's where we are with Mops now.

THE ELECTION

Yeah, besides AFM this week there was an a election. Funny thing is there was no screens  at all at AFM in the bar or restaurant showing election coverage. No CNN, MSNBC or Fox.  Guess the organizers didn't want any brawls or broken deals for that mater.

Congrats to all of those who voted for the candidate of your choice. At least we can all agree that we showed up for ourselves and our country by exercising our right to vote. For all those who didn't, the official rule is you don't get to bitch about anything until the next election you vote in.

SPENT TV COOKING

With AFM over, and the new year close at hand, SPENT TV will finally be able to share it's first venture into reality cooking with our Cucina Clarissa show. 

Stay tuned for our update. Webisodes will be available on Spent TV and Youtube.