------------------UNDERNEATH THE SURFACE------------------ (Sex Trade Documentary)

Hey everyone. No I didn’t fall off the face of the earth, I’m just trying to work on pre-production for my documentary and finish up my last year of school! I promise to do better at writing here and there.

So here’s the deal, I’m working on logging the footage that I filmed while in Cambodia, writing the script, and compiling a list of donors for the feature length documentary. I hope to have this accomplished in the next few weeks, there’s been a lot of work that has led up to this. Then I will write the budget (equipment expense, travel expense, etc.).

Starting min-January I will be putting my short film together along with my proposal and contacting potential donors for money and donations of equipment, air mileage, etc. I’d like to raise enough funds to get a nice website up and running dedicated strictly to my film business and the documentary.

I need to get my crew nailed down and set the shoot dates in Cambodia and here in the U.S. Once that occurs I need to contact my interviewees and make sure the dates work and that they are still willing to talk with me. I will need a translator while in Cambodia and I need to start thinking about and contacting distributers for the film as well. There’s just a lot of little details that need to be taken care of and soon.

This is the real deal, a full-length documentary! I still need to figure out the budget, and I will cut cost as much as possible, but I’m guessing I will need about $50,000 for this project. I’ll keep you up-to-date on the particulars as they come together.

I’m trying to think of good names for my film company. Oh ya, so I’m working on my film company; mission statement, vision statement, values, etc. as I work on my documentary. I am reading a great book that’s helping me along with this process “Shaking the Money Tree” by Morrie Warshaski.

So that is the short version of what has been, will be, and is going on regarding my documentary on the sex trade. I’m getting REALLY excited about it too. It has kind of taken on a life of it’s own and I like the way it’s looking.