Creating 2015—Day 41:   No Time To Dwell

I personally handed my envelope of screeners to the very tall, pretty woman unlocking the Film Independent office doors a little before 10am this morning.  They weren’t officially open for business yet.  She was kind but in a rush.  The hand off was fast and without fanfare.  With only five hours of sleep under my belt, I appreciated that.  I didn’t have much personality for anything else.

After the unceremonious drop, we headed to CCI Digital to see the amazing Pete Kastoff, the owner of the joint.  We knew he wasn’t happy with us.  Not surprising considering the audio mix took about 30 hours longer than we were scheduled for.  There will be hell to pay for that and twice as big a bill to boot.  That hurts.  What hurts even more is that the film isn’t actually done after this ginormous expenditure to finish it.  But that’s a story I can’t even start to go into, I’m too damn tired.

Home from our sobering meeting with Pete, there was no time to dwell on how we just shot our small wad for post prematurely or how far over budget we are.  We had to dive right into the next thing:  tying up loose ends for the documentary of which a big deadline for them is tomorrow.  Bring it!

Until tomorrow, create from what you have…the next thing.

Kelli Joan Bennett is a filmmaker, actress, writer, entrepreneur, advocate for creative thinking and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Think Outside The Box Inside The Box Media.

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