Tales of an Indie Filmmaker: Jail City Wrapped
My good friend and former coworker Dan Eberle just wrapped shooting on his second full length feature film, called Jail City. Huge congrats to Dan for knocking out his shooting (and his credit card, I think) in 14 days! I IM’d with Dan this morning and he’s on cloud nine right now…though also a bit worn out. I wish I could have helped him out on this project, but Dan is still in Brooklyn and I’m now on the west coast (I’m a Brooklyn defector…). Hopefully if he gets some bites from the industry on this project, he’ll get to make some trips out west.
I got to help Dan out on his first film last year, called Vicissitude, which he primarily shot over one long weekend…and then worked to piece together follow up shots for a month or so after that (so getting Jail City in the can in 14 days has to feel good).
Dan actually cast me in Vicissitude…as a thug who he brutally beat and then left in a dumpster. Ah, I’m getting teary-eyed thinking about my speaking part debut as a trashy drug mule (check out the poster for Vicissitude, with my mug on the left…Dan’s the badass with the gun and the sad bald guy). But this post isn’t about "Vic" (Dan’s loving nickname for Vicissitude), this is about Jail City, which Dan described via IM as:
garbageconsumer: it looks amazing
garbageconsumer: theatrical quality
garbageconsumer: great performances
garbageconsumer: all the action was good
garbageconsumer: good to great
garbageconsumer: very impressive
garbageconsumer: very polished
garbageconsumer: everything vicissitude was not
So I’m really happy for him…that he’s happy about this one. For a good read, check out his MySpace page where he chronicles his daily shooting experiences. I love the post from his last day shooting, "I did it motherf***ers. I did in 14 days what my ‘legitimate’ movie producers said could not be done. REVENGE!" (If you haven’t used MySpace before, click on the "View All Blog Entries" link to find his actual blog).
Congrats Dan! Good luck editing and I hope to see the film screening out here at Laemmle’s or somewhere equally cool!
