OF DOLLS & MURDER Editing Update

"The dead are talking, we just don't like what they have to say." - John Waters, Of Dolls and Murder

A shot from the edit suite. We are watching our film, making minute changes. Changes so small that only we would notice. Ya know what that means? By the end of the day, we should have a rough cut. For real, this time.

Ran into Carly at lunch today. That must be a good sign because we hope to be working with her on the final mix!!!

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Of DOLLS & MURDER - questions we get

The other day, someone asked me if I had a dollhouse. When I replied that I didn't have one growing up, nor do I have one now, she was shocked and wondered aloud how I could be interested in dollhouse crime scenes. My initial response was, "Isn't everyone interested in dollhouse crime scenes?" Which, of course, isn't true. Not everyone wants to know more about dollhouse scenes of death, just the vast majority of people I meet. But I get what she was getting at, a person must really love something to devote three years of her life to make a film about it. And I do.

I would love to hear from someone who creates their own dollhouses of death.

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Happy Thanksgiving from Of Dolls and Murder

I went through all my dead doll photos to find the most Thanksgiving-like image, and on an admittedly sick note, this photo won. While I was clicking through my photos, an old episode of My Name is Earl was on and guess who was guest staring? None other than John Waters. A perfect way to kick off a Thanksgiving weekend.

If you haven't seen this episode, it's definitely worth checking out.

Anyway, hope your Thanksgiving is wonderful and homicide free. And that goes double for our homicide detective friends!

Mardi Gras with John Waters!

Fan of John Waters? Live in Australia? Visiting Australia in March? You're in luck! Lucky, lucky you!

Quoting Of Dolls and Murder

"Every Nutshells Study tells a story of human interaction. And that's really the basis of all crime - human interaction." - Naren Shankar, CSI

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Murder!

"There's a darkness to it. You're looking into the soul of a crime scene."

-Detective Inspector Kevin Corcoran with the Ontario Provincial Police

You know what a group of crows is called, right? I took this photo in a park by my house. And these noisy crows weren't happy about me and my little dog crashing their party.

We're in edit again today. We cut down one interview byte and just move another from the end, to the middle. This of course sets off a whole ripple effect of changing images and music. But we're closer than ever to having a solid rough cut. And it gets better and better each time we're in edit.

It hit me the other day what an unbelievably complicated story we are telling in Of Dolls and Murder. Perhaps we've made it harder on ourselves than we really needed to. John agrees, "We've always been navigating from one part of the story to the next, wondering how it's all going to fit together, ignoring the simple, easy ways to tell this story."

I guess that's what makes it truly indie film. I think the direction of our next film will be much more straight forward and yes, easier.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Thanks for hanging in there with us!

Last Night's Screening of Welcome to Coalwood

This is director Steven Date addressing the crowd at his screening of Welcome to Coalwood at the Parkway Theater last night. (Nov 12, 2009) What a night! What a film! We are so happy for Steve, our former student from Documentary Storytelling @ IFP. When I teach doc classes I always tell people that the number #1 rule is never be boring. And Steve must have listened because he film was anything but!

I'm kidding though about us teaching him anything, because Steve was already a budding filmmaker when he took our class and certainly didn't need us to tell him how to make a film!

Nonetheless, we can't help but be proud of Steve and so happy for him.

Some former Documentary Storytelling folks. Again, what a night!