Unofficial Tex Murphy

Well here's the latest details on the documentary:
We weren't accepted to into the Sundance Film Festival. At least not yet. The documentary we originally submitted was very quickly thrown together just to submit it on the final day they were accepting submissions. My buddy/co-director and I are relieved actually that it was turned down as we are still making the movie. Apparently documentaries take a long time to make, we've been at it since last January and when we started we didn't even know we were making a movie. It's a lot of work for just 2 guys but you would never think that when you see the final product. Well maybe you would but shush. Anyway because it was rejected it leaves us open to complete the documentary at our own pace and we can submit the final polished film into next year's festival. We may forgo that and just distribute it ourselves without the festival attention but we are still deciding that. There are many other festivals we can now submit it to.

As for what the documentary is about, I really still can't say too much as there are some sensitive items that we have uncovered that cannot be brought up yet. Without giving any real details about what the film is about I can sum it up quickly. The film is about the Aboriginal (Native American in USA) experience in Canada. To my knowledge no one has uncovered anything that we have in this documentary. If they have come close they only scratched the surface of the subject, and they surely have not presented it the way that we are presenting it. The documentary has been quite an eye opening experience for me, especially considering I have lived my whole life in this country and thought that I knew pretty much all that happened/happening here.

We are currently at about the 3/4 mark of completion and when we do finish it, we will be creating a website to sell the DVD's and/or BluRay copy of the film. We are hoping to have it completed sometime in January but seeing as it is continually evolving we may or may not make that completion time. Now that the pressure of Sundance is off of us we can put all of our time and effort into it to make it a better product. So it was sort of bad news that we didn't get in but more of a blessing as it will only make the final version that much more polished and have a more powerful impact. Anyway that's pretty much all I have to report for now so I had better get my ass back to work. If I am not back before the holidays, everyone have a good one!

That sounds exciting and quite interesting. I hope the production goes well and I look forward to being able to see the finished product. Thanks for the update!

I'm very interested in this. My kind of subject.

Sounds good, glad to hear it is going well... Really can't wait to see the film...

Yes Documentaries can take months and in some cases years to make before actually putting it out for viewers... I recently watched a 2 hour Documentary on one of the Discovery Channels that took them almost 15 years to make, because they started it in the mid 90s, but had to wait out for all the science stuff to be completed in labs and whatnot...

There's also one that I watched not too long ago that started in the 60s and they just finished it in 2008... It was about a Probe that was launched to Saturn... The documentary starts off with the building of the probe and the launching and then it fills in with interviews and whatnot and talks about the journey about how it had to go to Venus first to use Venus's gravity to give it an extra boost and then finally in 2006 it reached Saturn and they went on to tell about everything that was discovered...

So 50 years in the making and it finally got published, and you could tell the difference in the quality of the film as it progressed through from beginning to end of the documentary... I sure hope yours doesn't take 50 years though... lol

In any case, we wish you the best and hope things work out in your project.

Keep at it man... I think it's important to keep refining it, between festival submissions even. It's often really good to see if you can get feedback from the folks who are at the festivals that may not accept the film as well.

Anyway, can't wait to see it!

-Cub. =o)

Glad to hear you're still alive and kickin'. Kickin' @$$, as well it hears like.

Let us know when you're done! I'm sure many of us will pick up a copy.

As always, keep us posted!

-Fred