Time Runners (the European title for 95ers: ECHOES) is strutting its stuff in front of film buyers right now at the Marche du Film, one of the largest film markets in the world. (It takes place alongside the Cannes Film Festival.) In addition to the title, a couple other things have changed about the movie…
The DVD is on the shelf in Japan… but it’s not exactly what we expected. Our star Ali explains it best in this video…
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So, Ali and I got a very unusual piece of mail the other day… a CHECK. People on the other side of planet Earth PAID us for our movie.
…in Thailand! They were the first to snap it up at market. I just delivered the master movie files to the lab, which will then send them to Asia…
Accompanied by a mammoth sigh of relief echoing from here to Pluto, 95ers goes to market in Hong Kong this week. The completed movie literally got on a plane yesterday. Then to Europe and beyond! THANK YOU, EVERYONE!
Well, in timespace we don’t deal so much with “circles” per se. We get more of these these weird shell-type constructs. But the connection is the same. Thanks to some big news that will hopefully come next week… I feel I can safely say that this project is reaching closure. Years ago when I began chronicling the 95ers indie film adventures in this blog, I wrote about some of the core mysteries and struggles—and grand misconceptions—we were facing. A reprint seems very appropriate now. Enjoy!
(To give you a little chronological perspective… It is now 2012. The following (except for the last line) was written in 2009. 95ers was first conceived in 1998.)
I had my first sit-down with a distribution company, and they gave me a strange and somehow mystical stack of papers…
Introducing our new secret weapon: 3D matte painter and VFX artist Adam Kuczek…
(The above image is from the upcoming NEW and AMAZING 95ers movie poster. Stay tuned for that.)
