Screening Of TWENTY

TWENTY, a feature movie I co-wrote with the director Hilary Davidson, had its first screening on December 2 at CreaTV in downtown San Jose, CA. Cast, crew, and their guests arrived at the venue in the early afternoon. I was expecting a subdued gathering of about 20 to 30 people to show up, watch the movie, then have a discussion. Instead close to a hundred people came to the event and the mood was festive. I had the fortune of meeting new people and did some schmoozing with other Bay Area film people. It was also a potluck so there was plenty of food.

I helped with the script and was at some pre-production meetings but I wasn’t on set during any of the production and post-production so I had no idea what the final product would look like. We were still working on the ending and there were a couple of scenes that were still being written when my work was done. I was happy to see that the story narrative was figured out, the movie had come together, and from the response from the audience everyone liked it. Success!

Hilary Davidson put in a huge amount of work into this project. She wrote a treatment and about 30 pages of script before I joined the project, auditioned a slew of actors, decided on a cast, scouted a number of shooting locations, raised money, operated the camera during shooting, and did the painstaking process of editing. The drive and dedication to take a spark of a feature movie idea and bring it completion, and all in the space of about four years, is highly impressive and inspires me to keep going on my own projects. The next step is entrance into some film festivals before getting a wider release, so stay tuned! For more information on TWENTY, a story of four friends who accidentally cross over into an alternate universe where privacy is prohibited, click the link below.

https://nineteen85films.com/twenty/