The Spinning Gyre's Television Debut!

So remember "A Fairly Normal Love Story," that short film we made last summer for the 48-Hour Film Project?

(here's a reminder if you don't)

Anyhoo, we were stoked and humbled to be presented with a few awards for it back in 2011 (honestly, I think it's that Lawrence Trivia taught us great time management) but now we have been informed that it's going to be featured on Wisconsin Public Television!

I'm not certain when it's going to be broadcast-- it's going to be on a program called Director's Cut, but it doesn't look like they have an official season schedule yet. We're even gonna get a check (like $100 split 2 ways, but hey, money for art!).

We'll give you guys more details as we learn them, but for now, I just had to share the excitement. It gives getting rejected from the WI Film Fest a little less sting. Hell, they weren't gonna pay us, so... better this way. :P

A Fairly Normal Love Story

For those of you that couldn't make it to the 48 Hour Film Fest screening in Madison (like...those of you that don't live in Madison), here's your chance to see our submission. 

In case you don't know how this kind of contest works, we had 48 hours to write, film edit and score a short film. We drew a genre at random and everyone in the contest had to incorporate a given character, prop and line of dialogue. We drew Romance, and the other elements were as follows:

Character: Matt or Maggie Michaels, musician

Prop: Calendar

Line of Dialogue: "Where do you want to meet?"

Based on the other submissions, I would say we were one of the newest groups to participate. I also think we did a damn fine job of it.

UPDATE: At the "Best of" awards ceremony last week, "A Fairly Normal Love Story" walked away with Best Use of Character, Best Use of Genre, Best Writing, and Runner Up for fan favorite (and the film that won fan favorite was absolutely perfect--we all voted for it too).

Not bad for our first year.