The thing about the new tapeless workflow we’ve embraced for Dilemma, is that although we did manage to shoot the movie and have the first rough cut done on the same day you still have to have time to meet with your editor to go over the final cut. You also still have to wait on music. So although the first cut took us only a few hours the final cut is taking weeks.
We’re remedying both those issues and the final product should be out- you guessed it- soon.
Then Filmbaby.com (no relation to Filmkid.com) has the solution for you!
http://www.filmbaby.com/films/2507
Head over there and click ‘Download’ and $12.75 (via Credit Card or Paypal) later you have it on your computer. No beautifully and carefully designed and expensive packaging to take up space in your home, just a file on your computer.
The other, and really only advantage to this is that the wait is limited only by your internet connection- not by the postal service or my ability to get the post office to ship you a disc. Also, now all you crazy kids in other countries who wanted to see the film but worried about things like $35 shipping fees (that’s you, guy in Sweden who emailed me) can get a copy.
It’s also a nice change of pace to see Filmbaby actually achieving something for the film’s distribution. Since December I’ve had to following conversation with them weekly:
Filmkid:Â “Hi, my film Several Ways to Die Trying is listed with your site, which says it should also be listed with Amazon.com and Super D. It’s not up on Amazon yet and I just got off the phone with Super D and they’ve never heard of it.”
Filmbaby:Â “Amazon usually takes a while to list new products from us, but all our films are listed with Super D.”
Filmkid: “Not mine.”
Filmbaby: “All of them.”
Filmkid: “I just got off the phone with them like 2 minutes ago, and they don’t have it.”
Filmbaby: “All of them.”
This is when I hang up or stop sending them email replies depending on means of communication. I’ve heard great things about Filmbaby when they actually get your movie listed with their partner companies, but since that’s yet to happen- I have nothing great to say. Other than that it’s free, so I can’t complain too much. But that won’t stop me from complaining.
You know any review that starts with the words “Holy Crap!” can only go one of two ways. Thankfully, in the case of Zach Cranor’s response to my stupid movie based on one of his “stupid drawings” it went in the resoundingly positive direction.
As this is the first thing I ever actually adapted it’s nice to see the original work’s creator responding so well to a Filmkid interpretation. I’d also like to thank all of you who watched the rough cut and gave us some feedback- it’ll help a lot in the final cut.
We’ll be finishing the cut up soon and shortly thereafter marrying it to some great Jesse Gimbel music before we start sending it out to festivals.
Thanks again everybody!