Z Fest: Pre Production
February has already been a crazy month, and this weekend it’s about to get even busier! We’ve been hard at work writing, casting and storyboarding for Z Fest, and early Saturday morning we’ll start shooting one of TWO short films we’re submitting this year. We’ll have 9 days to shoot, edit, and turn in our films, which is a daunting task and a little stressful, but in the end is a lot of fun!
Festivals like Z Fest are a great opportunity to do exactly what we love: making films! I’m always blown away by how things come together on these projects, even at the last minute, to produce some seriously high quality films.
Assuming the stress of the upcoming days doesn’t kill me, you can see it (written by Kylee Leonetti, Christian Jensen, and Evan Drolet Cook; directed by Kylee Leonetti) and PLAYERS (written and directed by Owen Royce) at the premier and awards ceremony on Thursday, March 3rd at 7:00 pm at the Icon Theatre in St. Louis Park (click here to buy tickets). Come out and show your support for local filmmaking, and of course for us! We’d love to see you.
At last year’s Z Fest Winter Film Festival we got to work with some of our amazing and talented friends on Mountainberry Koolade Sunrise The Return, a comedy about innocence lost. It cleaned house at Z Fest (winning Audience Favorite, Best Writing/Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Costume/Makeup Design, Z Systems Favorite, and Best WTF Moment), and was screened TWICE at the Minneapolis/St Paul International Film Festival.