THOMAS VERRETTE / filmmaker

It’s been a while. Too long in fact.

I’ve decided to make a pact with myself (or my imaginary friend John if you read my first post): I am going to write AT LEAST one article a week until the end of July. That’s right. So start checkin back. If you feel I don’t live up to these standards, feel free to comment. Maybe something like “Tom! You’re a damn liar!” or similar, but keep it PG please.

Next order of business, I want you to check out this video because it inspires me everytime I watch it.

The next few weeks are going to be dedicated to my film, “I Am The Bluebird”, my recent adventures at a few festivals (I’ll have some pictures up soon!), and you can continue to follow the journey to distribution right here.

To preface the next article (coming on Sunday): For those of you who are in the same boat as I am, check out the site Film Specific. It’s a website solely dedicated to the messed-up business side of distribution, and if it didn’t exist, I may have already gotten screwed over. Yes, we’ve gotten some offers already. They were either crap offers or too-good-to-be-true offers by really shady people. In other words, look out. More on that on Sunday.

Also, before I run, the upcoming projects pages has been updated. Nothing concrete is happening yet, but my advice of the moment is to multi-task. I am slowly discovering that putting all your eggs in one basket is the worst idea for any filmmaker. Work on multiple things at once. The market keeps changing, especially in these troubled economical times, and there is no stability in spending three years on one script. Spend three years on a script, but also write something else.

Anyway, that sounds good to me. I’ll let you know how it goes.