The Secret Life of the New Movie
We’ve already passed the middle of the year and here are some sobering stats before we dig in to the meat of this post:
It’s been more than 5 years (2004) since we started filming our first movie EL ESCAPE DE LOS SANTOS, AND 3 years since its release (2006)…
It’s been 3 years (2006) since filming ASH WEDNESDAY: CAPITULO UNUS and it is still unreleased…
It has also been more than a year (April 2008) since the idea for our third film was conceived…
That being said, since April 2008 we’ve been slowly climbing this steep mountain.
We have achieved so many “mini” goals, and I have been privately updating this journal (without publishing)… which I hate because there’s so much material that could be so useful and entertaining (especially with the characters we’ve been meeting with)…
We have fought so damn hard for this new movie… just to get the permissions has been a challenge, to get the support, the writing has been very challenging, the research has been extensive and intensive, every single wall that has gotten in our way we have destroyed it with our bare hands…
we are bloody and we are hungry…
It has been quite a journey and the coolest (or saddest) fact is that we are in the very early stages of pre-production… So there’s still A LOT more that needs to be done…
What’s also cool (at least in my little world) is that we are building all this from the ground up.
We have learned from our mistakes and this time around we are energizing and building an infrastructure way, WAY before we start shooting… It is imperative and of the utmost importance that we attain the support of as much people as we can.
If you are a fan of San Antonio, we need you… If you are a fan of Eagle Pass, we need you! If you’re a fan of Monterrey or Piedras Negras, we need you!
If you are a fan of Art, Love and Life, we need you!
If you want to be inspired by this incredible true story, we need you!
In October (2009) we will be releasing a teaser and a full fledged website that will announce to the world our very precious and ambitious project…
Lots of stuff is happening and for now please help us by subscribing to our blog or to our twitter thing-a-majig…
ALSO, special thanks to everyone that has lent a helping hand to some humble independent filmmakers (us).
Thank you for helping us make our past two films [sad isn’t it? two films since 2004! Ha!] and we hope you can join us into the dark and treacherous path of our next motion picture.
This week we will head on to even more encounters (or meetings, as the upper class call them) with a bunch of individuals that are crucial for the continuation of our illustrious path.
Before I go, I’ll leave with one of those “inspirational” quotes from a guy that looked like the penguin in Batman:
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”-Sir Winston Churchill
PS: if you are one of the privileged few that have a netflix account, pretty-please-with-sugar-on-top, take 5 minutes of your time and post a review of EL ESCAPE DE LOS SANTOS… thanks! 
