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Behind the scenes footage from our first road trip

David — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:36:21 +0000

We’re going to do our best to document the process of making our latest film, a feature about wine and winemakers. This is the first installment, from a trip we took to the high desert wine region of eastern Washington.

Great location

David — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:23:31 +0000

It seems that we weren’t the only ones to latch on the Fiechter House in the Finley Wildlife Refuge as an amazing location to shoot a film. A Portland Filmmaker, Edward Davee, set his film there, too. The old farm house is perfect for his early 1900′s period piece, shot in 16mm in black and white. Looks like it should be a fantastic film when it’s finished.

And here’s a still of the Fiechter house from when we were scouting locations for a place to use as Jake’s house. Of course, we decked it quite differently than Davee’s film, with empty cans of Pabst strewn across the porch, broken lawn chairs, a cooler and pairs of old boots. Not to mention Rhett the dog.

A Country Wedding…Icelandic Style

David — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:17:52 +0000

This old grange hall was one of the locations we initially considered for A Country Wedding, and it's wide open sight lines reminds me of the churches in the trailer for the Icelandic film "Country Wedding"

Just noticed the site for this film, a product of Iceland called Country Wedding. Watching the trailer, I thought it not only looks amazing, but it has some resonance with our film. The isolated church in an open field is the spitting image of what I had in mind when we were scouting locations.

We ended up shooting a church in town, an amazing location, but when I saw the location in this trailer I had to do a double-take. That’s exactly what I was seeing in my head.

I’m going to try to catch the Icelandic feature because it looks fantastic. And I’ll also ship them a copy of our film as soon as it’s available.