Thanks to the cast (Christopher Player, Nathanael Hevelone, Vihann Kong, Le Nguyen, Khoa Nguyen, Julie Kong, Troy Turick, Mai-Khuyen Nguyen & Allison Stevens); and crew (Allison Stevens who produced, Nathanael Hevelone who directed and Christopher Player who did foley work & assistant editing; also to the others who worked tirelessly on this but prefer their anonymity). Lastly, we’re extremely grateful to the musicians – Mediafriend and Action Set.

I’m just back from the screening and post-screening celebration for our new short, “It’s OK to Be Afraid”. Overall I’m more or less pleased with how it went. The reception wasn’t wildly enthusiastic, trending towards individual level bewilderment which is just about what we expected. Now we’ll wait and see what happens – I’m not particularly holding my breath for any of the general awards.

I’ve had this feeling the last couple of years that the films we make aren’t really appropriate for the 48 Hour venue yet we keep coming back to do them – there’s something about the intensity of the process that’s wholly captivating, even if our end product doesn’t fit into the SNL-lite mode that seems to be normative. Regardless, I’m happy with what we showed from a visual, technical & audio perspective and am more than happy to discuss the plot as I understand it with anyone who cares to. I’ll post the film before I leave tomorrow night – please check back if you’re interested in seeing it.

One side note – I just wanted to say that Ben Guaraldi is a good and decent man who went well out of his way to accommodate us by getting us in tonight on very short notice. Many, many thanks to him. Also thanks to everyone who came out and that one dude we don’t know who voted for us.

We’ve officially switched our screening for “It’s OK to Be Afraid” to 7pm, Tuesday the 8th. Buy your tickets here! Ancillary benefit to switching- Michelle Barbera and We’re Making a Movie (of The Guts and the Glory fame) is now in our group. Collateral downside- we’re no longer grouped with our Open Screen ?????? Jeff Stern and Stand Up Mandy. Actually know that I’ve checked they switched to Group G on 4/15 anyway – that’ll be worth seeing.

I’m really looking forward to seeing whoever can make it out tomorrow. Vote early, vote often, vote without regard towards future political endeavors!!

For the legions waiting with baited breath, we submitted Echoplanar’s 2008 Boston Film Project entry, “It’s OK to Be Afraid”, ridiculously ahead of schedule today. More details will be forthcoming posts sometime after a) I get some sleep and b) the Kansas/Memphis game tomorrow. The screening is still scheduled for Thursday at 7:00, I’m still unsuccessfully trying to change it.