If you’re keeping tabs on dates…Sept 1 was the deadline to have the rough cut of the film complete. With that said, I’m taking a week off from editing because the rough cut is done. It’s been a long arduous process up to this point with the home stretch still in sight. A huge thank you goes out to the entire Rusticren Media squad for getting us to this point. But there is still lots of work to do! We need to push on getting the funds raised so that we can get Silence Is Sound into some film festivals. Still a shit load of ground work to pursue. And even more deadlines to meet. By Sept 18, a final cut will be complete, then of course the film needs to be ran through the color correction process. A process which I am not super excited about. It’s one of those necessary evils, like paperwork! And thanks to Mr. Reshard Wilson, I am reminded how much I hate paperwork…glad to have you aboard!

Creating the closing credits is a funny thing…First of all, when you have a limited budget or no budget to begin with, everyone involved wears multiple hats. So in the credits you keep seeing the same names. That’s how it is I guess as an independent production team. The advantage to this is not having to worry about too many people, the production process is smartly manageable.

Thursday, October 22nd we will be screening the film as a part of the Golden Lens Film Series up at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, NV. This is an annual film showcase put on by the college that brings out film enthusiasts in and around the Reno art scene. Props to Lindsay Wilson for coordinating that. We are currently in talks with other local venues in Reno for a private screening the following night, Friday October 23rd. This will be a dedicated screening for the cast and crew, family and friends, and invited guests. We are also trying to get a 3rd screening open to the public on Saturday October 24th.. Stay tuned for further details.

Meanwhile, the online promotions continues. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, Vimeo, Blogspot, and various other social networking outlets provide a perfect forum for us to get the film exposed, for FREE! With the focus on generating online traffic, we hope to get a tribe of loyal fans who will essentially be the flagship for this guerrilla style movement to get the film seen.

We are also working on a double soundtrack… I am not completely sure if this has been done before for an independent documentary film but we’re gonna go ahead and do it. Demond Dowdy and Joey Golaw have coordinated a plan to create an album with artists featured in the film. While DJ Seven (Ben Sensabaugh) will produce a mixtape of all the music used in the film.

So I’m off the N.C. for a bit… Get out of this damn editing suite and breathe some fresh oxygen. I do need to acknowledge the gratitude I feel to have come this far with the film. Even though production isn’t complete and only the rough cut exists, I have faced many heart wrenching challenges and obstacles just to produce that much. We started this film back in December of 08 with just the concept…here we are now 10 months into it getting closer to manifesting that concept. I’m truly grateful. – M. Reyes

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