We blinked, and somehow it’s the end of June. If you’re anything like us, the last four months have felt like either no time has passed or like the longest decade ever. Like many other creative endeavors and other film productions, our world has been rocked not only by the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Wondering what’s happening with Parkway of Broken Dreams? On Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. (PDT), we’re hosting another Facebook Live #AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) session with ye olde director, who will answer your questions about the film live (or if you don’t ask any questions, I’ll just talk about whatever’s on my mind, which could be…
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Can anyone else believe it’s been two months since Christmas? It feels more like it was two weeks ago. But, no, somehow, it’s now almost March, in the year of oh lawd two-thousand-and-twenty, and although it may not look like it, we’ve been busy. Busy on our butts, that is, editing Parkway of Broken Dreams!…
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If you ever have the crazy notion to make a feature-length documentary film, I recommend NOT doing the following things: Choosing a topic that requires a lot of archival footage unless you already have a trove of that footage at the ready Having a demanding day job while making the film Learning certain technical aspects…
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Sorry not sorry for putting this earworm into your head: So, it’s September, and we recently completed a quick footage-gathering trip to Las Vegas to help fill in some of the visual gaps we’ve discovered as editing has progressed on Parkway of Broken Dreams. We’ve also recently acquired more archival footage from the ever-supportive Geoff…
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What if we went on a filming trip to New Jersey and didn’t take any pictures? Would you even believe it happened? Well, this past weekend, it did happen, and no, we didn’t bring back any photos. But we did get a certain former host of “Poetry Alive” at Cafe Espresso Roma to sit down…
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We love a good pun. And, apparently, a bad one, too. A few weeks ago, we checked off a major “to-do” from our list: Interviewing Lenadams Dorris, the man who opened the short-lived but highly influential Newsroom coffeehouse on Maryland Parkway (following its equally short-lived stint in downtown Las Vegas), and later helped sustain and…
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62 pages. 29,018 words. 151,828 characters. Is that a script? The first few chapters of a novel? All of the tweets I’ve ever posted? Nope. It’s the transcript for the 23 interviews shot (so far) for Parkway of Broken Dreams. And that’s not even the full transcript. That’s just the time-coded highlights from the interviews…
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We’ve been back about a week now from a whirlwind two-and-a-half-day excursion to the Pacific Northwest, from which we brought back a lot of interview footage and a seasonal cold, hence why it’s taken us more than a week to post an update. In case you didn’t know, there’s quite a large contingent of musicians,…
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At the beginning of the year, I posted a lovely blog update that looked back at the progress we made in 2018, and mapped out the road ahead for 2019 (and beyond!). And for the most part, we’re sort-of on schedule, give or take a few weeks. The interview transcripts and last principal interviews are being done…
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