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Back from Prosser and Walla Walla

We spent the last several days interviewing winemakers, wine bloggers and other wine industry fans and professionals in Prosser and Walla Walla, WA. Not only was it a thumbnail education on the wines and geography of that high desert region, but it was three days filled with fascinating wine stories and experiences. We visited with winemakers and growers from Daven Lore Winery, Maison Bleue and Reininger and captured interviews with participants and organizers at the Winebloggers Conference in Walla Walla.

We’ll have some updates from the trip soon. We missed some easy shots, but also grabbed plenty of footage that has potential to make it into the finished project.

Gordon Taylor of Devon Lore Winery shows cinematographer Kegan Sims the geography of the Yakima Valley

Boxed and ready for the after party

After the debut screening of A Country Wedding, we’re getting together with the cast and crew to say thanks and to pass out screeners and have a little country wedding cake, pizza and libations.

A Country Wedding has been boxed and is ready

Alice Tucker hits the stage

Alice Tucker (center) played the role of "Alice" in A Country Wedding.

A Country Wedding actress Alice Tucker will be appearing in the Albany Civic Theater production of Paul Osborn’s Morning’s at Seven* in March.

Anyone involved with the film knows what a talented actress and all-around great person Alice is, so we’re thrilled to see her on the stage in a major role.

Here are the details:

Morning’s at Seven

by Paul Osborn    Directed by Leigh Matthews Bock
March 5, 6, 12, 13, 14(m), 18 19, 20, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Sunday matinees (m) 2:30 p.m
“Morning’s at Seven” is a comedy about the intertwined relationships of the four aging Gibbs sisters. The quiet lives these women share with their husbands start to unravel as they begin to question what to do with their remaining years. Tensions rise when Ida’s 40year-old son brings his fiancée of 12 years to the house for the first time.
This charming portrait of small town America in 1938 was revived on Broadway in 1980 and in 2002 to critical acclaim. What makes this beautifully colored, sharply etched family portrait so delightful is the understanding that laughter and tears go hand-in-hand as responses to everyday life.

Tickets – $11/$8 under 18 over 60, available for reservation or purchase at:
Sid Stevens Jewelers (541) 967-8140 140 SW 1st Avenue, Albany
Rice’s Pharmacy (541) 752-7760 910 NW Kings Blvd., Corvallis
The theater box office, at 111 SW First Ave. in downtown Albany, 45 minutes before curtain time

*The possessive apostrophe in “Morning’s” is actually correct…I checked.

Da Vinci Film Fest screening

We’ve got a date and time for the premiere of A Country Wedding. It will be Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the LaSells Stewart Center on the OSU campus. It’s  a big auditorium, so there should be plenty of room.

Make sure you follow the DaVFF on Facebook so you can find out the latest details on the event. We’re lucky to be in a town that supports independent films.

More set stills

I’m pulling together some images for the program at the Da Vinci Film Festival, where A Country Wedding will be premiering, and I thought I’d drop them onto the blog. This is one of my favorite scenes. We hit the bridge at the right time of the evening, and everything had a soft, golden light.

First official trailer

And check out our new site for the project at countryweddingfilm.com.

Music for A Country Wedding

The musicians we're working with include Jared Mees and the Grown Children

We’re thrilled to be working with several musicians on the soundtrack for A Country Wedding. Our own sound guru, Kevin Elmore, is as versatile in the studio as he is on set. Kevin is a sound designer, musician, composer, engineer and handy to have on a film project.

We’re also working with Jared Mees and the Grown Children, whose critically lauded music is a chaotic blend of folksy poetry: their work is thoughtful, textured and hard to pin down, qualities we’re hoping to achieve in this film.

Finally, we can’t forget David Jones, who has composed some pieces that capture the heart of our film.

I can’t wait to pull all of this together in our finished short. Right now we’ve got a rough cut that’s almost ready to go out to the first round of festivals, and our first trailer should be up shortly.

Country Wedding Audio Remix

We were able to show a preview of A Country Wedding at our wrap party on Saturday night, and it was a huge hit with the albeit biased audience. Wrapping production on the film is a huge step, but now we’ve got several months of post to get it into shape. We’ll be releasing trailers soon.

In the interim, check out this audio remix that Kevin Elmore, our boom operator and sound designer put together. Hilarious stuff.

Country Wedding audio remix

Photos from last day of shooting

Here’s a few photos from the final day of shooting.  Narrowly escaped various threats such as locomotives, drug users, dogs, and rain.

Favorite Production Stills

These images come from the production stills. We have a lot of amazing shots to choose from. We’re in the middle of post now, and there’s a long way to go. But everything looks great.