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Movie Post-Production and Launch

129 backers pledged $26,024 to help bring the Impact Factor Movie to life. That’s pretty amazing, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Of that $26,024 only about $16,000 made it through the maze of Kickstarter fees and uncollected donations. Ouch! It’s not possible! Many professional filmmakers told me that it was impossible […]


Impact Factor Movie Update

I’m thrilled to announce that we are 98% complete with the Impact Factor Movie! We are down to a couple of orchestrations, final sound design, color-grade, polishing, and deliverables and then we will have preview copies complete. As soon as we have completed preview copies, we will start the review […]


About that small thing …

JUST SO YOU KNOW, “IT’S THE SMALL THINGS THAT COUNT,” AND “YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT.” And … I’m not so good at small. But, you have to start somewhere and when I decided to try to produce a film, I resolved to start small. […]


Never Again

This weekend will be a historic first (and last). Today I’m aching for friends who can’t be there. Sometimes we forget that every time we get together magic happens and that the particular set of friends and the spark of the power of being together, sets off a firestorm of impact that is unlike any other.


Life Expectancy

What’s the point? I’ve always set my life expectancy by comparing myself to my Dad. Dad lived to be 92 – Exactly. It was a goal to make it to 92 and he did.   Unfortunately, I’m not as slim and trim as Dad was, but I’m in reasonable health […]


How to Cast A-List Actors in Independent Films

It’s the classic “Chicken and Egg” Stuff. Investors want to see A-List Talent in your movie before they put money into your project and A-List Actors want the money in the bank before they look at your script. I’m going through this right now with The Impact Factor Movie so if […]


Season Two Episode Two: Crushing Disappointment 4

Behind the scenes  of the creation of three movie projects collectively known as The Impact Factor. It’s reality as it happens, the launch of a big dream. This episode talks about Levi Allen of Left Coast Media and how creating films (or any creative endeavor) can be a crushing disappointment, how […]