Opportunity knocks…

I’m not exactly clear as to why I haven’t shared about some recent good fortune until now. Perhaps it’s that I don’t want to jinx things or am in total disbelief that some of my dreams are actually starting to manifest themselves in reality. I began this new category on the ol’ blog called ‘Filmmaking’ where I wil bore you all to tears about my experiences. I have a feeling as things get going it’s all I’ll be talking about anyway.

So what’s happening?

About three weeks ago I got a phone call from the Independent Film Center about their desire to meet with me to discuss the possibility of taking me on as a producer on a project they would like to get off the ground. They chose me and two others for this project as bright spots out of all of the people who have taken classes at the Independent Film Center over the last two years.

I thought, Me? A producer? WTF? That’s what I’ve always wanted to do. This has got to be a gag with some scam at the other end. Apparently not. I went to the first meeting and got the low down on the production – a horror/thriller themed reality kids show.

Youre kidding right? I love that stuff. It’d be a gas to be involved in getting anything remotely horror related made. Anyway, it isn’t a joke. If I’m willing to put in the work I am able to participate in this project from concept to distribution (that includes raising the funds to get it made – gulp!). The project is to be overseen by Brian Leslie of the center and producer of a really cool horror movie called The Black Door that he let myself and the two other producers, Rochelle and Nancy, watch the first time the four of us met. I loved it, but they’re ‘fraidy cats and don’t like horror. Oh well, they want to make movies that’s all that’s important right now. This could be really fun. the cool part is that this can all take place on evenings and weekends, meaning I can keep my day job too. At the end I will have a genuine credit as a producer on a real show that, hopefully, will be saleable. Weeee!

I’ll probably bend Brian’s ear more as I’m planning and incorporating my company ZombieFreak Entertainment very soon. I want to do horror movies and perhaps a TV series or two… This whole ordeal has inspired me back to planning and writing again. My friend Pete (Sneaky Pete on this blog), who was on the Emmy winning Art Department team on X-Files and now works on Smallville, wants to get involved. We’ve already met, eaten steak and gabbed about what we’d like to do. I have even written a list of short term goals for the company. All of a sudden this isn’t talk anymore, it’s action. It’s becoming real very quickly and I love it. I guess I’ll be updating ZombieFreak.com.

A few of you have emailed and posted that you may want to volunteer to help me on some level get some of my stuff made. I may just take you up on it very soon.

Sometimes opportunity not only knocks, it kicks the door down. I’m grateful it has. I probably wouldn’t have answered.