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Kickstarter Campaign

Posted March 20, 2012

anyone who frequents this blog knows that i directed my first feature in december.

now i’m in post and as it turns out, post is kind of expensive.

so we’re asking for people’s help in the form of a kickstarter campaign. if you don’t know kickstarter, it’s an online crowdfunding site. you give money and we give you perks – DVDs, signed posters, invites to the first screening, all sorts of rad stuff.

please go check out the page. http://kck.st/GDt1oI

on a personal note, when i started all of this, i didn’t know how much i would care about it. yes, there are days i want to throw my hands up and be done with it. but there are days when i feel like i might end up giving up my first born just to finish the movie (and we can make that deal if you have the cash…). i guess what i’m trying to say is that this shit ain’t easy. it’s long days in production, longer days in post-production, while trying to balance an acting career. it’s giving up my personal life and sleep and reading full books and seeing movies just to sit in an edit room or do re-writes or file papers.

and i wouldn’t trade that for anything.

which is kind of cool.

anyway, i made this small sneak peak. it’s not color-corrected. the sound is mostly original to what we shot. and i edited it myself (with a little help from my editor). so please know i only share it with you because i’m just so stoked, i can’t keep it to myself any longer. and i promise, sincerely, that it’ll be one million times better when you see it on a big screen.

again, i’d like it better if you went and watched the sneak peak here. but if you’re too lazy, watch it on this page and then go give here. or at least send it out to folks and tell them what we’re doing over here. because doing it in a vacuum is no fun at all.
 

Best Friends Forever Sneak Peak from brea grant on Vimeo.

go to the kickstarter page, here. please retweet, post on facebook, and call your mom.

wondercon.

Posted March 17, 2012

normally we just take these for my mom, but i thought i’d share. it’s zane and i with our current books at the IDW booth at Wondercon.

feel free to respond as our mom would.

the importance of celebration.

Posted March 16, 2012

i’ve been thinking a lot about working.

i’m a work-a-holic. all of my friends are work-a-holics. a lot of my closest friends aren’t in the film industry and they are still work-a-holics.

i think one of the major problems i face as a person who constantly has several projects going at once (you know, like writing a comic book, editing my first feature as a director, auditioning and shooting two television shows back to back – like i did last week) is that i don’t take a moment to take a break.

when i first starting booking television shows and movies, i’d buy myself a cupcake or throw a party or at least go have a beer in celebration. now, i call my mom and dad about big things but mostly, i just go about my business. i just keep working. then, i finish work and just start on my next project.

doesn’t that sound really, really boring?

as work-a-holics, i think we need to start celebrating more – when we finish a job, have a good pitch, or finish a project a work. if we don’t celebrate, what the hell are we doing all this for anyway?

so this is my pledge to take a day off, go to a museum, see a movie by myself and buy a tub of popcorn (one of my favorite things to do), or do the stupid things that make me happy when i finally finish something i’ve been working on.

what are you working on and what are you going to do to celebrate it?

bff and fabio moon!

Posted March 12, 2012

a new pin up for best friends forever by fabio moon.

we are so lucky to have such talented friends!!

austin, i love you.

Posted March 09, 2012

i had big plans to go to sxsw this year to see my friend chioke‘s doc on tv on the radio and michelle lawler’s (dp of Best Friends Forever) doc wildness.

but alas, i had to cancel my ticket due to unforeseen circumstances.

i lived in austin for 6 years and i loved almost every minute of it (some days, you can really use less heat). so i thought i’d make a list of the things i’d be missing that maybe some of you could partake in.

the alamo drafthouse is now an official austin institution. in college, we would go there for cheap food and booze and great movie theme nights. now, they have huge festivals, are releasing their own movies, and having premiers. (let’s hope they let us premiere best friends forever there.)

spiderhouse was my jam for studying and hanging out with friends. it’s close to campus and has a beautiful outdoor deck. i can’t tell you the endless hours i spent there trying to figure out how to pass my government class.

the paramount is a beautiful theater in austin that i’m sure most out-of-towners get to visit during sxsw. it’s a place people should definitely hit up because they really don’t make them like this anymore.

i spent most of my saturdays in grad school at bouldin creek talking school, relationships, and reading the Missed Connections section of the paper. it’s a must visit for vegetarian/vegans. (this photo is a little old though – they’ve moved to a really pretty spot in south austin.)

my friend celeste pretty much has the greatest vegan baking company of all time, celeste’s best. there’s really nothing better than her pumpkin cake.

and of course i can’t mention austin without bringing up trudy’s. i worked there in the kitchen throughout grad school. and i’m sure i learned a valuable lesson about hard work…or burners…or something in there.
plus, i’m sure college kids everywhere are still taking the trudy’s challenge (drink the three limit mexican margarita at every single trudy’s location – i can’t really see after just drinking one). i spent many a late night mopping floors at this place but the salsa is still some of my favorite in town.