Podunk.

Well, I've finally gotten around to starting this thing.  The idea for a blog had been thrown around since early summer and I'm only now organized enough to sit down and do it.  My name's Andrew and here you'll be able to read blog posts written by me and my friend Victoria.  Who are we?  We're friends and current collaborators on a short film we're shooting here in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as in Iowa.  The film (I guess technically a movie, not a film, as we are using no film...)  will be finished in less than a month and will probably clock in at a little less than twenty minutes.  Then we'll put it on a dvd and send it on its merry way around the country (and perhaps the world...?) to knock on the doors of film festivals to beg them to let us in.

The movie's title is 'Podunk' and is about...well... it's about the recession.  I'll just say that.  It's been one of the most exciting processes I've ever been a part of watching this thing go from an idea in my head to all its iterations and changes on the page and now actually seeing it right in front of me.  

There's an ulterior motive involved in this blog.  Aside from promoting our own work and the talented individuals involved we want this blog to serve as a way to connect individuals passionate about pursuing the arts as a career with the resources they need to do so.  This includes us.  Victoria and I have been looking for grant opportunities to support our growing movie-making habit if nothing comes of the festival circuit route (*fingers crossed*).  

When we get our shit together on this blog it will hopefully be helpful tool for all you starving artists out there in the cities and beyond to get started.  If you're like us you work a day job to pay the bills while you do what you love in your spare time.  Maybe with enough work we can do what we love all the time.  

Start spreading the word.  This will be an underground movement to pay attention to.  More soon...

Andrew.