Bryan Poyser (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} poyboy) wrote,@ 2007-11-13 06:08:00 |
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Today is the day
Dear Pillow comes out on DVD today. The first public screening of the film was on January 18, 2004 in Park City, Utah, for the Slamdance Film Festival. In the intervening years, Jake & I have shown the film to countless audiences in this country and others, lost and won awards, and even released the film ourselves. But now, finally, at long last, people we don't know at all, people who don't care what camera we used, how much the movie cost, or how many months it seemed like the movie would never find the right home, can finally pick up a copy at their video store, read the back, go "hmm," and take it to the counter.
Or (I just found out about this), they can drop it in their Blockbuster Online queue. Blockbuster didn't want it for their stores (I guess they watched it with the sound on, unfortunately) but they're happy to stock it for their online subscribers. Heretic is leaning on Netflix to get their DP page up, but apparently their web-team has been short-staffed (what other "team" do they have, for chrissakes?).
We just had a little DVD release party at the Austin School of Film tonight and it was great to see some faces I hadn't seen in a while. I even managed to sell some DVD's, at least enough to pay for the pony-keg and the munchies. I wish I could say that now that I'm awake in the middle of the night after my Zeigenbock-induced pass-out, now that the DVD release party has occurred, now the DVD is off pre-order on Amazon.com, I feel a sense of closure for this little movie. But, I don't. Not yet. Maybe once I see it sitting it on the shelf at Vulcan or I Love Video, and I discreetly wait there until someone looks it over, picks it up, says "hmm," and walks up to the counter with it. Maybe then.
Dear Pillow comes out on DVD today. The first public screening of the film was on January 18, 2004 in Park City, Utah, for the Slamdance Film Festival. In the intervening years, Jake & I have shown the film to countless audiences in this country and others, lost and won awards, and even released the film ourselves. But now, finally, at long last, people we don't know at all, people who don't care what camera we used, how much the movie cost, or how many months it seemed like the movie would never find the right home, can finally pick up a copy at their video store, read the back, go "hmm," and take it to the counter.
Or (I just found out about this), they can drop it in their Blockbuster Online queue. Blockbuster didn't want it for their stores (I guess they watched it with the sound on, unfortunately) but they're happy to stock it for their online subscribers. Heretic is leaning on Netflix to get their DP page up, but apparently their web-team has been short-staffed (what other "team" do they have, for chrissakes?).
We just had a little DVD release party at the Austin School of Film tonight and it was great to see some faces I hadn't seen in a while. I even managed to sell some DVD's, at least enough to pay for the pony-keg and the munchies. I wish I could say that now that I'm awake in the middle of the night after my Zeigenbock-induced pass-out, now that the DVD release party has occurred, now the DVD is off pre-order on Amazon.com, I feel a sense of closure for this little movie. But, I don't. Not yet. Maybe once I see it sitting it on the shelf at Vulcan or I Love Video, and I discreetly wait there until someone looks it over, picks it up, says "hmm," and walks up to the counter with it. Maybe then.
