Born Again Heathen BLOG

Well it's been an interesting journey and having been accepted as an official entry into Worldfest Houston International Film Festival and winning a Gold Remi Award; I think the Born Again Heathen team can congradulate themselves for achieving every objective we set out to accomplish! DVD's of the film will be mailed to all actors, crew and extra's over the next couple of months and please contact me if you don't recieve yours through the post. I would like to thank everyone involved and look forward to working with you in the future. Stay in touch, kind regards - Wayne Barrow

Dear all, the wrap party has been set for the 7th Dec and all relevant people involved will be contacted for an invite. A couple of versions of the edit will be available to view and a DVD of the shoot pictures will be given to all attending.

At this stage a more polished edit is being worked on, (with special effects,) and will be ready to submit to the Tribeca and Houston Film Festivals.

Dear all, after numerous challenges that elongated the time to produce a finished edit; Stewart Hadfield and Wade Savage finished the cut by the 24th Oct. I sent authored DVD's of the film along with all submission requirements via express courier to the Berlin & Bradford Film Festivals; both arrived at their respective destinations on Fri 31st Oct.

We now have a finished edit that’s good enough for festival submissions however because of the tight deadline; it still requires work on sound levels, colour grading and adding a special effect for the ‘miracle’ scene. To this end I have advertised on the Film & Television Institute website and am contacting Universities for another editor to ‘polish’ the final cut.

The goal is to have this new cut finished by the end of this month, ready for the Tribeca Film festival in New York; being the biggest in the western world, it’s a huge deal and I want the edit to be of the highest quality.

A date for the wrap party will be announced over the next week where food, drinks and a viewing of the film will be made available however due to Film Festival regulations, I will not be able to give anybody a copy of the film until after April 2009. (Perhaps longer than this dependent on other festival rules.) To compensate for this, a DVD will be given on the day to all immediate cast and crew, containing hundreds of high quality pictures of the shoot. After April 2009, a DVD of the film will then be made available to all cast, crew and extras!

After resolving an issue regarding a completion date for the edit, (for the film to make it in time for the Berlin International Film Festival,) we are now back on track with a revised date of Friday 24th October for a final edit, and the film to be authored to DVD. Based on this, the wrap party will probably be held in the second week of November, where an exclusive screening of the film will be held.
Over a two week period from that date, the film will be entered into four festivals as detailed below.
Berlin International FF - Attendance: 430000, Media Attendance: 4200, Accredited Industry Attendance: 15800 – The biggest in the World!
Bradford FF - Each year Bradford welcomes a star-studded line-up of guests including Michael Palin, Kenneth Branagh, Barry Norman, Mike Figgis and Julien Temple.
Tribeca FF - The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff after the attacks on the World Trade Center to help economically and culturally revitalize Lower Manhattan through an annual celebration of film, music, and culture. Attendance: 400000, Media Attendance: 1300, Accredited Industry Attendance: 980, Total Number of Films Screened: 200.
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival - In addition to honoring a different country each year, WorldFest will continue with its annual Short Film Showcase, a special review of 100+ new short and student films...from the festival that discovered Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, John Lee Hancock, Randall Kleiser, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, Robert Townsend, The Coen Brothers, Brian de Palma, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone and David Lynch with their very first awards.

It's been a crazy, full-on, 3-months of preparation however the end result is we have about 3 ½ hours of footage to condense down into 12-minutes of quality finished film. Jarrod Stillman, Creative Director of Grey Ghost Media, has kindly offered his expertise regarding video, effects and musical editing. This means that we should be looking toward the 2nd week of October to throw a wrap party and present all the main cast and crew with a quality authored DVD of the film, along with another DVD containing a selection of high quality photos from the 3-day shoot; all contained in a nice DVD case.

I would like to thank all members involved for a tremendous effort regarding video, audio, acting and comedic standards that exceeded my expectations. I can assure you this high standard will be maintained throughout post production and into the film festival circuit.

All extras, (who signed a talent release form,) will then be sent a DVD so everyone who took part will have their own personal copy of, Born Again Heathen, as promised.

Many thanks to all

Wayne Barrow