It’s been a big week for Addict Named Hal.
On October 10, we closed our all-or-nothing Kickstarter campaign to fund principal photography. After an enormous amount of outreach and incredible community support, I am so proud to say that we met our goal, raising $22,205 from 263 backers. The support from our friends, families, colleagues, and audiences has meant the world to us! THANK YOU!
The day after closing this campaign, I hopped on a plane to Los Angeles for world premiere of the “Addict Named Hal” short at the REEL Recovery Film Festival. It was fantastic watching the film with an audience for the first time, and feeling their response through the major turn of the film. We got to connect with other filmmakers and audiences in LA, and it was pretty awesome.
Now, we just get to focus on making this movie! Locations and scheduling are the primary focus right now, and they are occupying a lot of our team’s bandwith. But, tonight I get to watch Sean Baker’s Tangerine with our Director of Photography (John David de Virgiliis) and our Editor (Prakshi Malik), since that’s one of our major comps for Hal. Taking artistic, cinema-based time with collaborators after all of this fundraising and networking will be really nice.
I’m about to be out for a week - I’m getting top surgery on October 22, and it’s about a week-long recovery period. I’m incredibly excited, and also spending this week getting ahead on my class projects for the semester, and making sure that all of our area heads are prepared to continue working in my absence. It’s a big delegating and preparation week for me.
More soon. Thanks for following our adventure.
Lane
