Congrats to my pal, Michael Canales, who sold his Nicholl Fellowship finalist script, “The Tribe,” to Continuum Pictures.
Jeff Stolhand and Mike Canales at the "Machete" premiere
Glamour Spot
I recently co-produced a high-scale glamour spot for MadHatterCollective. The spot, directed by Zane Rutledge, featured Kelly Grace, Zach Thompson and a digitally enhanced shooting star. Kudos to a great cast and to Leslie Touchet from Cobalt Blue who did a terrific job on hair and makeup. The shoot went smoothly, despite the city of Austin blowing a power grid in the exact part of town we were shooting. Fortunately, we wrapped the spot before the city lost electricity on that side of town. In the end, the spot turned out great and should start airing in the coming weeks.
Johanna and Nicole Kidman
Congrats to my friend Johanna Goldsmith who just wrapped on the film, “Trespass,” with Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman! I love to see Austin talent continue to grow and succeed.
Johanna with Nicole Kidman
The Little Things
Sometimes it’s the little things that make
your day. Today while tech scouting a location for a shoot tomorrow I had a pleasant surprise. The owner of the location had re-created a replica of a ’60’s juke joint in his own backyard. But not only that — everything in it was authentic; the bar stools, the juke box, the 45’s in the juke box and even the coke machine. But when I say everything… I mean everything. When we were about to wrap up, I was offered a dime for the coke machine. And what the coke machine delivered was an “original-recipe-cane sugar” Dr. Pepper…
in an original 1960’s bottle. How cool is that? So, I kicked back, punched in Kodachrome by Paul Simon on the juke box and enjoyed my Dr. Pepper.
Unlike Marty McFly, I didn’t have to go back in time to get an original taste from the past. The little things can be very cool.
Editing for Story
As I work on my current edit for Southwest Airlines, I realize you always have to find the story. Sometimes the story is written and sometimes the story is created in the edit – created with the footage that you are given to work with; created from the people on screen telling their stories.
And all of their stories are different. But it’s the editor’s job to weave them all together into one voice.
All media is storytelling.
Blue Cat Workshop
Alvaro took our latest script to the Blue Cat writer’s workshop in New Orleans. So far the notes are all good! I see a script polish in our future and then we’ll set up a local reading.
Machete Premeire
Congrats to our pal Alvaro Rodriguez on the great opening weekend of “Machete.” Left to right: Jeff Stolhand (film and video producer), Alvaro Rodriguez,(Co-writer of “Machete”), and Jim Boy (subject of a new script by Stolhand and Rodriguez).
Launching New Website
I’ve been letting my old web site sit untouched for far too long. Thought I would re-work the whole darn thing. Not only to I want to make it a better site, but also keep myself more active on the site. We’ll see if it works 😉
