By Kiowa
So we're a little slow on the uptake for the whole Twitter phenomenon, but fear not, we have now established a way to communicate with you in a mere 140 characters. It's a fine challenge and it reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit from probably 1988. It was a spoof on Texas Senatorial campaign ads and one Senator's platform was to shorten conversations by shortening words, particularly for people out of time. Therefore someone on death row would die of "leath injech". Maybe I'm the only one that ever found that funny. Then again, I find most things funny.
Anyway, please follow us on Twitter if you would like to be served the occasional update in 140 characters.
http://www.Twitter.com/DoubleEdgeFilms
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tickets to Ink
For anyone in Denver considering coming out to see the film, please purchase your tickets ahead of time at the Starz FilmCenter website. Tickets can currently be purchased for the first week of the run. Jamin and I will be there to do Q&A after all shows on opening weekend. We hope to see you there!
Here is the link to buy tickets: http://www.denverfilm.org/filmcenter/detail.aspx?id=22444
Here is the link to buy tickets: http://www.denverfilm.org/filmcenter/detail.aspx?id=22444
Denver Opening March 13th!
By JaminWe're thrilled to announce Ink will be opening in Denver on March 13th at the Starz Film Center in Downtown Denver. We'll be playing the film for a two week run. From there we're hoping to open wider, but it will ultimately depend on the distribution deal we acquire.
Please, if you're in Denver, help us get the word out. We're going about this release very untraditionally. Ultimately we're trying to demonstrate a strong audience in Denver before releasing it wider. Word of mouth and press are everything (literally everything) to us, so spreading the word will have a huge impact...or not...we'll see.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The New Ink Trailer
By Kiowa
We just got the new trailer uploaded to YouTube - please check it out and pass it around if you like it.
We will have our big announcement hopefully tomorrow. We're still hammering out some details so stay tuned.
We just got the new trailer uploaded to YouTube - please check it out and pass it around if you like it.
We will have our big announcement hopefully tomorrow. We're still hammering out some details so stay tuned.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Back in Denver
By Kiowa
We have been quiet on the blogosphere for a few weeks, but that does not mean we have been taking it easy. Arriving home in Denver meant a steady two week trip back to the basement to do another pass on the film and cut a new trailer. We're making some bold steps and will be releasing a new trailer along with a big announcement early next week.
We have been surprised that the first trailer has played a bit "horror" for people and we don't want to turn away viewers that think it is a horror and don't like that genre. The film has creepy elements, to be sure, but is definitely not a horror. We have cut a new trailer that is a little more true to the overall tone of the film so be on the lookout Monday or Tuesday for that to hit our website and YouTube.
We have been quiet on the blogosphere for a few weeks, but that does not mean we have been taking it easy. Arriving home in Denver meant a steady two week trip back to the basement to do another pass on the film and cut a new trailer. We're making some bold steps and will be releasing a new trailer along with a big announcement early next week.
We have been surprised that the first trailer has played a bit "horror" for people and we don't want to turn away viewers that think it is a horror and don't like that genre. The film has creepy elements, to be sure, but is definitely not a horror. We have cut a new trailer that is a little more true to the overall tone of the film so be on the lookout Monday or Tuesday for that to hit our website and YouTube.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
One Of These Things is Not Like The Other
By Kiowa
If you just look over all the posters of the films playing at SBIFF it's very clear one of these things is not like the other. Ink is clearly the bastard child in the festival and after four screenings here, it's obvious none of the people coming to our film are actually festival goers at all. They're all coming into town from L.A. or the colleges nearby making us realize how great and die hard our fans really are. If it weren't for them, we would have had four very, very personal screenings of the film.
In general, film festivals center around a primarily middle-aged and older crowd whom is most interested in intimate dramas from around the world. In fact, the festival film has really become a genre itself, but a genre Ink won't ultimately fit in. And though SBIFF has gone extremely well (probably the best festival experience we've had) we've made the decision that instead of pursuing an extensive festival run, we're going to release the film to our fans as soon as possible.
Now we're just trying to decide how best to release the film. We have generated a lot of distributor interest from the reviews and crowd reaction at SBIFF, the only catch with distributors is that they can be slow to release a film and we're not interested in waiting. We want our fans to be able to see it now whether that be in the theaters, on VOD, DVD, or online so over the next few weeks, we're going to have to make some careful decisions of how to do that.
Likely we'll open Ink theatrically in Denver some time in the next 4 to 8 weeks. We have a very supportive fan base there and it's going to be the best place for us to start. As we negotiate with distributors over that same period of time, we will see what shakes out. The thing we aim to avoid is losing all of this great post-festival momentum and buzz to the point where the film seems "stale" in another year when the distributor is ready to push Ink into theatres. But ideally a distributor helps us open in theaters around the country very soon or we'll have a DVD, VOD, and online simultaneous launch.
Something that's extremely important to us is our international audience. We have really great fans in France, Germany, the U.K., Japan, Spain, Russia, Mexico, and several other countries and we're dead set on getting the film to everyone as quickly as possible. So it's likely that releasing the film digitally is going to be the best way to get Ink to everyone simultaneously. We will keep you all posted on where things land with distributors and for our Denver fans, we will see you all very soon.
For our last night in Santa Barbara we did the most remarkable thing. Maybe it's not remarkable to everyone, but for two people who grew up in the cold foothills of Colorado it was pretty awe-inspiring. We had made some friends earlier in the week and they invited us to a bonfire down on the beach. We followed the street directions to the location and "go down the stairs to the beach and turn left". As Jamin, Chris Kelly and I were walking down what must be 300 stairs, all I could see was endless stars, the mist from the water, the half-moon peeking out behind a tree and heard the waves crashing below us. It was like walking into heaven. We could barely see a thing, but what we could see, smell and hear was spectacular. A real treat for these folks from the Rockies!
If you just look over all the posters of the films playing at SBIFF it's very clear one of these things is not like the other. Ink is clearly the bastard child in the festival and after four screenings here, it's obvious none of the people coming to our film are actually festival goers at all. They're all coming into town from L.A. or the colleges nearby making us realize how great and die hard our fans really are. If it weren't for them, we would have had four very, very personal screenings of the film.
In general, film festivals center around a primarily middle-aged and older crowd whom is most interested in intimate dramas from around the world. In fact, the festival film has really become a genre itself, but a genre Ink won't ultimately fit in. And though SBIFF has gone extremely well (probably the best festival experience we've had) we've made the decision that instead of pursuing an extensive festival run, we're going to release the film to our fans as soon as possible.
Now we're just trying to decide how best to release the film. We have generated a lot of distributor interest from the reviews and crowd reaction at SBIFF, the only catch with distributors is that they can be slow to release a film and we're not interested in waiting. We want our fans to be able to see it now whether that be in the theaters, on VOD, DVD, or online so over the next few weeks, we're going to have to make some careful decisions of how to do that.
Likely we'll open Ink theatrically in Denver some time in the next 4 to 8 weeks. We have a very supportive fan base there and it's going to be the best place for us to start. As we negotiate with distributors over that same period of time, we will see what shakes out. The thing we aim to avoid is losing all of this great post-festival momentum and buzz to the point where the film seems "stale" in another year when the distributor is ready to push Ink into theatres. But ideally a distributor helps us open in theaters around the country very soon or we'll have a DVD, VOD, and online simultaneous launch.
Something that's extremely important to us is our international audience. We have really great fans in France, Germany, the U.K., Japan, Spain, Russia, Mexico, and several other countries and we're dead set on getting the film to everyone as quickly as possible. So it's likely that releasing the film digitally is going to be the best way to get Ink to everyone simultaneously. We will keep you all posted on where things land with distributors and for our Denver fans, we will see you all very soon.
For our last night in Santa Barbara we did the most remarkable thing. Maybe it's not remarkable to everyone, but for two people who grew up in the cold foothills of Colorado it was pretty awe-inspiring. We had made some friends earlier in the week and they invited us to a bonfire down on the beach. We followed the street directions to the location and "go down the stairs to the beach and turn left". As Jamin, Chris Kelly and I were walking down what must be 300 stairs, all I could see was endless stars, the mist from the water, the half-moon peeking out behind a tree and heard the waves crashing below us. It was like walking into heaven. We could barely see a thing, but what we could see, smell and hear was spectacular. A real treat for these folks from the Rockies!
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