on a mission to tell great stories
Thanks to everyone who came out for the AWESOME release party yesterday to see OMAKASE on the big screen with big sound. Plenty of champagne and French pastries added to the festivities, but the best part of all was finally seeing our hard work come together. Thank you to all our fans for the support and celebration, and a huge congratulations to the cast and crew!
For everyone who couldn’t make the showing, this is the “behind the scenes” video we also premiered last night. Good fun!
We just got the good word that SHADOW ANGEL was selected to be a part of the independent film festival at Comic-Con in San Diego! We are ready to take the comic book world by storm. Attended by thousands, Comic-Con is the perfect place for Shadow Angel to burst onto the scene. Congrats to the cast and crew who worked on this film last fall!
See you there on July 22, 2010!
Oh, and in case you haven’t seen the trailer, we’ve just posted it to Vimeo:
Shadow Angel Films survived and thrived during the all-night shoot (8pm – 11am)! Were there early morning hijinks (Alex and Eric, you think you’re so clever with those C-47s and tape, but remember, a good director has eyes in the back of her head)? Did we indulge in bacon at 3am? Did beer bottles explode? Yes!
All that and more moviemaking fun than you could imagine. Let’s just say only the actors ended the night looking as fresh and pretty as when they started! But thanks to an AWESOME crew, we have great footage to start editing!
Presenting Duke Lee, Larry Kitagawa, and Suilma Rodriguez! Three incredibly talented actors who will star in OMAKASE. We met for improv exercises and rehearsals, discovering new things about ourselves and the characters. These actors are AWESOME and committed to their roles. You are gonna love watching them!
Suisha House in Redwood City graciously agreed to be our sushi restaurant location! And, we found a wonderful location for a dramatic rooftop scene at night. We’ve booked some wonderful talent with rehearsals starting soon. A good day to be a filmmaker!
In a very disappointing and unexpected turn of events, O-Toro Sushi notified us they needed to pull out of the agreement to be the main location. So, it’s back into the location scouting fray! We are making our lists, and checking them twice. Today we went to 10 more locations and we’ll keep at it until we find the right one!
After a long scouting trek to over 20 sushi restaurants, we found the main location: O-Toro Sushi at 205 Oak Street in San Francisco!
Jimmy, the owner, is very enthusiastic about having us there and we love the elevated sushi bar and the elegant, simple decor. As you can see, the sushi is exceptionally beautiful. And, we have eaten there twice now, and the food tasted just as good as it looks! We urge you to visit there and see for yourself. Tell Jimmy you’re there to check out the next film location for Shadow Angel Films!
Yummy seared hamachi belly nigiri.
Well, of course we always knew we had merit in general, but we’re talking specifically about The Doorpost Film Project, an online film contest. They chose our film to be posted on their Web site! Watch it here! Congratulations to the hard-working and talented Bottle Caps cast and crew on this recognition of your AWESOME merit!
Update: It turns out you need to sign up for an account on thedoorpost.com, and log in before the films will actually play (hopefully this is a temporary problem). Look for the “sign up” button on the top right of the page.
What a wonderful chance to celebrate our work together as a cast and crew! We gathered at the home of Heidi McDowell and Jon McNeal (the still photographer) to watch the film and enjoy cake and champagne. Most of the crew made the party, and those unable to come were fondly missed. We also played a few rounds of a newly-invented form of bingo–Bottle Caps Bingo– making good use of our leftover 20 lbs of bottle caps from the shoot. Take a look at the DVD extras here!
We just finished up two great days of shooting! We shot all but one scene outdoors, which is a risk in the rainy season here in the Bay Area. But we sailed through with just a few hours on Sunday scrambling to hold an umbrella over the camera. See some behind-the-scene production stills on flickr here and here.
