A BTS photo from Sing Sing has made the cover of the Austin Chronicle, with me showing my best side. At a recent special screening at Alamo Drafthouse, Greg Kwedar, the director, sandbagged me with it as I was coming up to field a sound-related question during the Q&A. Was stoked that my 19-year-old son was able to attend with me.
I set out with a couple friends to attempt to set a record obtaining the most mosquito bites (and a little doc filming as well). It was on a large cattle/exotic ranch in the Refugio (pronounced ree-fury-oh) area. They had gotten a metric f-ton of rain that weekend and it was very swampy and incredibly humid. Had to use a hairdryer on the lenses to make them usable.
So many cows and horses! The best part was getting to take a few treats home!
Sing Sing is now in theaters in LA and NY. Will expand on August 2nd. Excited for folks too finally get to see this.
I’ve always said that TV/Film production can occasionally be like having a backstage pass to everywhere. Today’s fun was watching humanoid robots being trained to replace warehouse workers. Cool and terrifying. Here’s a pic of Apptronik’s Apollo from the GXO website.
Had a fun afternoon with local gaming legend Warren Spector who was doing a little Q&A for the mouse. There were amps and instruments everywhere, but I couldn’t get him to strum a little.
Got to spend a fun and rainy morning inside of Roger Clemens’ workout facility, filming him doing a promo for a LIV Golf event in Houston. He still throws the heat!
Spent the afternoon with local filmmaker Jeff Nichols for a piece with Galerie. Discovered we had a mutual friend in Greg Kwedar (Transpecos, Sing Sing).
I decided I wasn’t getting enough steps in lately, so I agreed to work with a branding video crew at the iHeart Country Music Festival at the Moody Center in Austin today. Kinetic would be a good word to describe the day.
Our little film that could had its domestic premiere at SXSW. Colman managed to attend the Friday evening screening, even though it was his Oscar weekend (he was nominated for Best Actor in the “Rustin” biopic). I had to work that day but managed to make it to the after-party (which was a doozy).
Sing Sing went home with the “Festival Favorite Audience Award.”
Our film Sing Sing has been selected to have it’s world premiere at TIFF 2023 in Toronto. I had never been to Canada outside of a layover at YYZ. Loved Toronto — has all the amenities of a metropolis, but it’s clean and everyone I interacted with was friendly. I even got to take in a ball game.
We had a great screening and after-party. The best part was A24 acquiring it a week later!
