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PERSONAL HISTORY's Festival Run & Upcoming Releases

4/14/2023

Hello all!

It's only been like two months since the last blog post, but there's good reasons for it! We've been plenty busy. It's literally what I'm here to tell you about.

PERSONAL HISTORY
Some of you may have seen that our latest feature has had a great run this spring. In the last two months we screened at First City Film Festival, Kansas City Film Festival International and Red Dirt Film Festival. We even managed to pull in an award at First City for Best Feature Film!
We're very happy with how the film's festival run has turned out. We set higher goals this time around and in many ways, achieved them. That said, it's time for this chapter to come to an end as we will be releasing the film on digital very soon. July 8th, in fact!
The roll out will be similar to our previous films, showing up on Vimeo OnDemand first to buy or rent. Then we will see about other platforms. I'm doing my best to put together a really cool package of special features to go along with the movie. Hope you'll check it out when it comes out!

Polaroid from the PERSONAL HISTORY screening at KC Film Fest 2023 (Featuring: Lolo Loren, Patrick Poe, Tyler W. Moore and Jillian Terrell. Photo by Mickey Clark)

A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY (COMICS IN GENERAL)
Here's some news you probably thought you'd never hear. Or you're like, "What the hell is that? I've never heard of that". Our studio's first comic book series, A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY, which hit an unfortunate hiatus near the end of 2020, will finally continue with Issue 4. I wrote previously about how the final two issues (4 and 5) were completely penciled last spring. With everything we've had going on, finding the time to finish them was near impossible. There were several false starts. Trust me, I wanted it to happen. Getting this project finished and out has been a weight on my shoulders that, hopefully soon, I won't have to bear anymore. Issue 4 is completely finished and I've already started work on Issue 5. It is my intention to release Issue 4 next month. Issue 5, will be later in the year.
The page count on this one will a good amount small than the previous three chapters. That said, the amount of script contained in them is about the same. I chose to do a more economical approach to paneling this time around. The same will go for the next one. You may notice a very slight shift in art style as I am now illustrating the final two books. I've tried to keep the same approach as Beth's original vision, but there will obviously be deviations.
Expect Issue 4 on May 6th!

As for our other comic, THE DOG PARK, we teased that Volume 2 should be happening this year. While that is looking harder to promise, I will be sure to get SOMETHING out for that series before the year's end. Our work load turned out to be quite a bit more than we initially anticipated. That said, this project's importance has not waned one iota.

OTHER GREAT NEWS
For a couple months over here at IC, we were all talking behind the scenes saying, "You know what we should do? We should get Roy and Gina to join the team". After not doing that for a while, we took a different approach and did! So you heard it here first! Roy Nugen and Gina Bryant have official joined Illumination Cinema. They've been working in the art department of our last couple shorts as well as producing the other upcoming short HOLE IN THE GROUND. We're very happy to welcome them to the studio and can't wait to get started on yet another project with them. But first...

If I told you being in post-production for three short films at the same time is pretty time consuming, would you believe me? The aforementioned HOLE IN THE GROUND is actually pretty much done. Just a couple final tweaks to do on the sound mix. BLINDSIGHT is also well on its way to being complete, though there are several more weeks of work to go on that one. Finally, we did a final day of shooting on the Fritz Robinson produced short, DEATH IN LAVENDER. The final reel of 16mm footage just came back early this week with 4K scans for us to edit with. That one will go through the whole process next.

Also coming up, our short film from a couple years ago, CARRIER PIGEON, will be screening at the Bird Watching Film Festival in Kansas City, MO. Be sure to check that out if you're in the area. Or you can drive several hours to come see it. That's up to you. It's happening April 26th at the Bird Comedy Theater.

Okay. This post is getting long. I told you we were busy. I gotta wrap this up. Last thing I'll mention is that Jillian will be making her first podcast appearance next week when we do a new episode on the movie Renfield! That should be very exciting. Hope you'll all check that out.

Alright. That's it. I swear. See you in another two months. Maybe less this time. Who knows.

- Tyler

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Two Shorts In

2/27/2023

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It's been an interesting couple of months!
We spent our February shooting two short films that we had previously mentioned on this blog. The first was Gina Bryant's HOLE IN THE GROUND. That one was a western drama and a ton of fun to shoot. Our bodies hurt the next day after spending some time digging graves, but it couldn't have gone better. We already have a rough cut of this film and reception among our team has been pretty good. Still a lot of work ahead on it, but we're sure this is one we'll all be proud of.

The other film we worked on was a much larger undertaking. That being the horror short helmed by David Wayne Young and Kurt T. Choate, BLINDSIGHT. With a large team of the best of the best at our side, we underwent a four day shoot. Long nights, little sleep, you know the drill. This one may take a little longer to finish, but we still hope to have it out in time for the fall season.

As these two films enter post-production there is still one more short to shoot on our schedule and a few larger projects looming soon after. But that's a topic for another day.

Lastly, we just released our newest podcast episode sampling from the filmography of Stephen King. The episode features special guests Roy Nugen and Gina Bryant. Give that a listen as well!

- Tyler

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Happy New Year 2023!

1/1/2023

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Hello everyone!

2022 has officially come to a close and we're moving in to a new year. Ol' 22 was pretty decent to us. We saw the premiere of our latest feature, a new animated short film and a handful of great collaborations. As you can imagine, we're still very early into 2023, so there is a lot to be determined. However, I'll do my best here to highlight everything we're looking to accomplish.

PERSONAL HISTORY
With the film having made its debut, there has been a long waiting period on what our next move will be. That said, it may be a little longer before we know. Broadly speaking, the film will see a digital release, likely in the middle portion of the year.
In less important news, we released the soundtrack album a few weeks ago. That can be found HERE.

SHORT FILMS
We have a couple of co-produced projects that have yet to be released online left over from last year. Fritz Robinson's GOOD LISTENER will likely be released after wrapping up its festival run. The Take36 project, CHEKHOV'S HAND GRENADE, is just waiting on a bit of ADR.
Briefly mentioned on the latest episode of our podcast, we have been working on a horror project with Kurt T. Choate. We will be shooting this in the first part of the year. The short is called BLINDISGHT and will be helmed by David Wayne Young and Kurt.
We're also continuing to work on another short film with Fritz Robinson called DEATH IN LAVENDER. This is a 16mm crime short. There is one more day of shooting left to go in the spring before we move into post-production.
Finally, we are producing a short film directed by Gina Bryant called HOLE IN THE GROUND. Also to be shot in the early part of the year.
Needless to say, we'll be busy for the next few months.

NEW FEATURES
We've sorta softly announced these in the past. We are currently developing a live-action horror feature as well as a new animated comedy. It wouldn't be smart to say much more this early in the game. It will probably be a while before there is any news of substance on these. I'll leave it at that. ANYWAY!

COMICS
It's probably a good time to throw out an update on where these projects sit. Ideally, we would love to release THE DOG PARK Volume 2 this year. We made a good amount of progress last year. The animated short definitely sidelined it a bit. I'd say at best, we could try for the end of the year on this one. It will be a big undertaking no matter how you look at it.
As for A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY, there has been no major movement since the last time it came up. It's a low priority at this point. We are still determined to get it out there eventually. This project has just been a victim of circumstance.

PODCAST
We're about to move into the ninth season of our movie podcast. We'll be kicking things off with our annual tradition of The Golden Jamie Awards, running down every new film we saw in 2022 and declaring our top five favorites. We're all very excited for the line up of episodes we have this year. We have a lot of fun topics and guest appearances that we can't wait to do.

The future remains unwritten as usual. We'll see how everything goes. Bottom line, we hope to putting out cool projects for you to enjoy.

Have a Happy New Year!

- Tyler

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