03.15.08
The coolest filmmaker on the planet, Kely McClung takes on Kerberos
I don’t know about the coolest filmmaker on the planet part, but we have officially started pre-production on Kerberos. The coolest filmmaker bit was a demonstration of SEO from Google’s “coolest guy“, Brad Fallon — hey, look it up! And you know what? I have to say — he’s pretty cool!
I’m not even the coolest filmmaker in Atlanta, unless they all keep moving to LA, which is not so cool. So that’s all a bit silly, I wasn’t even the coolest guy in high school, maybe not even since first grade, where I was really cool, and I was cool with that, so even as a joke, the coolest filmmaker thing is pretty cool!
Now for the really cool part - I am starting on my next film, Kerberos. And what’s cool, (okay okay - I’m cool enough to know know this is bound to get un-cool real quick!), is that Brad Fallon is our Executive Producer. What makes that so… interesting, is that Brad, a very successful internet marketing guru and acknowledged SEO expert, (search engine optimization) and all around cool guy, is “outside the box” and so thinks “outside the box”, and I have high hopes for the marketing and success of Kerberos. More on all that soon…
So not only are we starting production on a really (hmmmm… what word could I use here?) script, as on my first feature, Blood Ties, I am really pushing the limits of independent, low, and by most standards NO-budget filmmaking.
Still, as I have let 3 years go by posting Blood Ties and knocking out the short film AM Session, now playing on HBO, technology has gotten better, I have gotten better, we have more resources for the production and the marketing and delivery of the film, and so once again the convergence is there.
I have also made a lot of friends in the local acting and production community, and watching and helping them to help me on Blood Ties, I am in a position as the director/producer to do some major paybacks by casting some of these same strong actors in really strong roles and crew members in positions of greater responsibility and visibility.
Using your friends on a movie, when they just happen to be the best people for the job, is pretty damn cool!
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“Talking people and doing people, for myself, I hope to do”
Kely McClung