To-Do List - First Half of 2010

I'm writing this down half for you and half for me - for you to know what I'm working on, for me to keep myself organized for the next six months. In rough chronological order:

1. Finish Moth Fight music video. Two thirds of it is shot, need to shoot the final third and then cut it all together. Possibly submit to the Austin Film Society's SXSW member showcase, if I finish it in time. I'm also in the planning stages of a video with Western Ghost House, although that likely won't shoot for a couple months or so.

2. Finish documentary short on forgotten Texas outlaw Austin Broadnax. I've shot about half of this, just need to get some more interviews with family members and some additional b-roll and it should be a pretty solid little documentary. I might also submit this to the AFS SXSW showcase, assuming I finish it in time. Here's what I have so far:

3. Shooting short film in Minneapolis with Sean in May. It's called The Evangelist, about a church janitor who tapes a televangelist program in his apartment. I'll be writing much more about this project soon.

4. Put together funding proposals for my next feature film Tyler. I've written a little about Tyler here. My goal right now is to put in a solid application for funding with the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund (I've had some success with this before). Hoping to get more money this time around, we'll see what happens.

5. Writing writing writing. I've got two finished first draft features that need some work: Hospital, a murder mystery set in New Orleans, and 1910, a Western that may or may not be inspired by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I'm also about five to ten pages in on three other features: Austin Broadnax, a biopic about the man discussed in item 2, The Demons, a political film about the war on terror, and a remake of Corpus. I've decided that the real problem with the original Corpus is that it wasn't self-indulgent enough, so I'm correcting that.

6. Hold down my new day job as Outreach Coordinator for Sunshine, a documentary broadcasting nationally on PBS Independent Lens in May.

Actually finishing all of the above by June-ish is only half of the battle - the second half is getting this stuff to an audience, which is a whole separate skill set I'm still very much learning. But I'll figure that out in due time - here's to a fun and productive 2010.