Craftmaster Independent

This is an exciting time for us as we are now ready to sell The Bicyclists to the public, in addition to booking small theaters around the country and waiting to hear from film festivals about our status. (We're early entrants on a lot of festivals - so the wait seems even longer than normal.)

The Bicyclists has gone from script to screen in a little over one year. The Bicyclist web series had barely wrapped production when I began to write The Bicyclists, in fact there were several episodes still waiting to be edited. After ten days of immersion I finished writing the script on July 11, 2008 and we went into rehearsals soon after that.

We had begun some pre-production, but then went full on into full production and actual shooting with only a partial cast on August 2, 2008. We needed to move fast because I wanted to work in the golden light of August and September and some of the cast planned to move to LA. Throughout shooting we added cast and crew “just in time”, along with wardrobe, locations and props (bikes, lots of bikes). To say it was stressful would be an understatement.

Would I do it that way again? Not on purpose. We did have the advantage of having worked with the cast for two seasons and of having planned early in season two to make the Bicyclists – so at least we knew what was coming. And now for the good part: we just took delivery of The Bicyclists DVD’s on Wednesday and are setting up our page on Film Baby as I type.

We hope you can make it out to the DVD release party and if not catch The Bicyclists on the web.

www.watchthebicyclist.com

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