Recently, a fellow filmmaker noted in his Facebook update that he's spent over 9 years in L.A. trying to make it in the film biz, and still doesn't know what it will take to "make it". His other FB update stated that he's considering panhandling to get this next meal (I don't think it's that bad, but you get the point). I mentioned this to another filmmaker friend and she laughed, agreeing that, sadly, it's true: you have no idea how long or what it will take to "make it". Yet we're doing it anyway. Either this is pure foolishness or arrogance that our talent will be distinguishable from the rest of the dreamers living on ramen. Or perhaps it's a mixture of both. Who knows why. Does it matter?
Anyway, I've been working with another editor to get another cut of my piece together. After not seeing my film for several months, I found myself excited again. It's like being reunited with a long lost friend, and realizing that you still like this friend--relieved that the original feelings of affinity are still there. After I saw my rough cut, I looked at Lucy's and Laura's cuts to see the entire 3 stories together. I don't know what the film festivals are looking for, but I hope they will like this film. I'm sure it was a mixture of both foolishness and arrogance that made us think we could pull something like this together. But in between those two extremes, we did pull something together. We'll just have to see how it plays out.
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