Wow, almost a year

I'm not doing very well with keeping up with posting! The last one was 6 months ago, and the one before that was a year ago!

I'm now writing from the offices of MoonHill Productions. We have a fax number (unbelievably important in this industry), and a website, and a business license. I'm even registered with the state and the feds for payroll taxes!

Great things have a happened in the last month that we've had our office. Richard won second place in the Sci-Fi division in a screenwriting competition. We have a professional working up a budget and schedule for two of our screenplays (all the better to sell them with -or at least that's the hope).

As a production company we are taking a two pronged approach. We are developing screenplays that we don't have the means to produce (at least not yet). Those are Jupiter and Complications, maybe even Descention. Then we are also working on the screenplays we do think we can handle. Those include Driving by Braille, Parallel, Concrete Test Tubes, and the Family (that's the working title).

Events in the next month are what we've been gearing up for all year. It was during this time that our little business idea formed, so we've had a year to prep. Now it's time to perform.

Dr. Junie, Producer

Long time no see.  And who's fault is that?  Mine, of course.  

So much has happened in the last 8 months.  I am now an independent film producer.  Yes, a producer!  I have a short film in post-production.  I'm not in this alone.  It was all Richard's idea/fault.  In the end of October, I had a big episode.  After all my talk of leaving UCLA, it was probably the freedom of leaving that caused the episode.  So from the end of October to the day I was scheduled to leave UCLA, I was on leave.  It was during that time that Richard, coming back from pitching, declared, in a defeated manner, that he wanted to just produce. As a writer, no body would listen/buy/take him seriously.  He was ready to try as a producer.  I don't remember if it took minutes, hours, or days, but I realized that I needed to join him.  I like to tell people that I told him that he couldn't do it without me.  I may have just convinced myself of that, and he could do it without me, but I wasn't about to let him.

So, now I am a producer...with a PhD.  It's not easy, but even at the most stressful of times, it's...fun.  Yes, fun.  Working with my husband is fun.  Bringing his project to life is fun.  Being my own boss, is scary, but fun too.  I'm about 2 weeks from being able to fully devote my time to the company and I can't wait.  Hopefully in the next two weeks, I can spend some time to actually document what my first months of a producer has entailed.  

So here I go back, to being a producer.  I'm looking up info on photo releases.  I'm just about ready to call the lawyer.  That's what a lot of producing is...always being on the edge of calling a lawyer!