What to do? What to do? What to do?

So.....

Now the movies done.....

What to do? what to do? what to do?

Well, i guess first things first. I've been watching the movie as much as possible on as many different platforms as possible. I need to make sure there arent' any universal problems that i missed, and that my exports and compressions are good. At least for the DVD anyway. So far i've screened it twice at home, once at Tapia's, once at my brother-in-law's (with him and my wife's parents - man was that awkward) and once at a friends house on his tube television. It's interesting how different the movie looks and sound on all these different platforms. I've found a bunch of problems so far. Nothing to bad though. A few situations where i forgot to bring the music down, or my mixing just didn't work like i thought it did. I should be able to fix everything in a day or so, then re-export another couple DVD's. Then be done for good on the film it's self. 

But once I finish it it's back to the same question. What to do? Well, a while back, John had asked me what my distribution plan was. that's something I need to work out. Steph saw the movie and thinks we should try and world premiere at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival. Seems like a long shot to me. i never thought the film was much of a festival movie. more of a b-movie comedy. but who knows. I have a lot of thinking to do over the next week or two. I bought a book. Chris Gore's ultimate Festival Survial Guide It's pretty good so far. 

I also talked to Harkin's about both a completion screening and a limited release. It's gonna cost about $450 to do a screening. I got some money to try and raise. In terms of the release, it was an awkward conversation with one of their film aquaistion executives. he said that these things rarely work out and kind of talked to me like I didn't understand the industry at all. He started to explain to me that i should find a distributor and that the distributor would put the movie out in theater's. :) ha. so i told him that i'm more interested in a limited release to gain numbers to show to a distributor, and to raise money for the festival circuit. He started to warm up and said he would take a look at a screener. Sometime next week after i fix the stuff i'll bring him a DVD. I'm hesitant to do this at all though, because if we do a limited release, we shoot our selves in the foot for the festival cuircut. 

Basicly i've got 3 options:

1. Festivals, 2. Four Walling/Limited release through Harkins, 3. Approaching Distributors Directly. 

I got some thinking to do.