This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You

So I'm sure some of you are wondering... "How's the movie goin, Amy? How'd turning in the movie on Halloween to the WI Film Fest go, Amy? Surely you did that thing you said you were going to do because you're not flaky like everyone else in the world, right Amy?"

Well... here's how it went down. I got the initial sound mix from Carl on Saturday afternoon, and put in 14 hours over the course of the next 2 days fixing the whole film up and plugging last-minute holes, and at the very last minute I looked at the film and I realized... rough cut or no rough cut, this is not the product I want to send to the festival. 

Ugggghh, it pains me so. You have no idea. Well, maybe you do, if you know me and how over-reachingly ambitious, OCD, and insane I am. But... UGGGHH. 

However, it really is for the best. Why work for a year on something and then turn in an inferior product? So I'm going to wait until sound and music are a little more complete before turning it in. I'm inquiring with the festival if I can qualify for Student Status (for which the deadline is December)... I doubt I can (because I wasn't a student during principal shooting), but I might as well try. And there is next year. And there are a million other film festivals. And, lest I start feeling bad about myself, I do need to remember that only three months ago, my hard drive was broken and I had to remake the whole film from scratch. So, you know. I'm not THAT much of a failure.

But, because I do feel badly, and because I want to maintain excitement about the film, I decided to provide you guys with another Sneek Peak.