Crowds Come Out in Maine

So just a quick update here....we got the final totals for our four screenings at the Collins Center for the Arts in Orono, Maine. According to the venue, 2, 248 people came out to our screenings! That's huge!!

We're kicking off our 12 theater run in Maine so please check out our screenings page for additional information. Tell your friends and family to come on out and see the film. We'll also be announcing theater showings in other states shortly so stay tuned!!

TWWGB at Full Frame Film Festival

This is a really great festival. On Thursday, Aron and I did a radio interview with WUNC's North Carolina's Public Radio. Click here to check out the audio clip. Frank Stasio was the host and he did a great job with our segment.

We screened at the largest venue with our 35mm film print at the Full Frame Film Festival. The venue, Carolina Theater-- Fletcher Hall, was absolutely beautiful and the film looked great on the big screen. For a 10:30am Friday screening we had a great crowd and the audience was really into the film. After our screening, we spoke to a group of volunteers for the festival who came in to see the film and they were very emotional afterwards. I told them--hey, you guys don't know what it means to see people connecting in such intimate ways with our film. This is such an amazing feeling for us as filmmakers!

We're exciting to check out more movies this weekend and I'll be back in touch with more updates shortly. Thanks for reading....

1st Rough Cut Screening-Camden, Maine

Aron Gaudet, Bill Knight, Joan Gaudet, Jerry Mundy, and Gita Pullapilly
at the 1st Rough Cut Screening of The Way We Get By.

We are getting close!!! We had our first rough cut screening at Camden, Maine to see what a general audience would think of our film and where we needed to cut the film to make it as strong as possible. The Camden International Film Festival sponsored this rough cut screening for us. 350 people were in attendance as well as our three characters from the film---Bill, Joan, and Jerry. We showed a cut that was 93 minutes--knowing that in order to get it to our target time, we would have to cut roughly 10 minutes from the film.

The showing was so emotional! We were really nervous since we were showing this rough cut for the first time. We really didn't know what people would think. But when the lights came up and we went to greet our characters, we were shocked to see that people were cheering and clapping. We received two standing ovations and the crowd cheered our characters! Everyone we spoke with really connected with the film and said that this film was speaking to them. We stayed in Camden over the weekend and were stopped by a number of people on the street who came up to us, hugged us, and thanked us for making this film.

Aron and I are still overwhelmed by the response we received in Camden as well as the e-mails since then from those that have seen this first cut. We can't wait to see what happens at our upcoming rough cut screenings before we begin submitting to film festivals! Keep your fingers crossed and please continue to help spread the word about the film!