From Development to Post and Everything In-Between

I've been told many times that it's good in this business to keep many irons in the fire. I take this advice to heart.

• At the moment, I have active projects in just about every stage of the production lifecycle. "Wayfarers" is in active development (I hope to announce some very exciting news about that project soon!)
• Two shorts ("Johnny's Rocket" and "End of the Story") are finished and submitted to festivals.
• "A Glimpse of the Soul" (which I think we're re-titling as simply "Glimpse") is in the later stages of post-production.
• I've been hired to produce a season of "Jewbellish the News" for my good friend, Mendy Pellin. Since we're tackling this as a weekly comedy news show, we're constantly in a state of pre-production, production and post-production simultaneously. We shot the first episode of the season yesterday, and while I'm in post on that, I'm prepping for the next episode, which shoots in a few days.

I'm really happy with the way these projects are moving. The spotting sessions with the composer for "Glimpse" were really fun, and the small bits of music I've heard so far are incredible. "Wayfarers" remains an adventure, though it's one I can't really discuss  yet. My shorts (especially "End of the Story") have been getting really strong reactions from the folks who've seen them. I'm hoping that translates to some festival love in the coming months, too.

Aside from the aforementioned secret good news about "Wayfarers", I've had some not-so-secret good news about the project. The WildSound Festival performed the first ten pages of the script and posted the video here: http://wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2014/11/14/writer-arnon-z-shorr/

There's also nice Jewbellish-related news: The Wall Street Journal published a front page story about Mendy and Jewbellish on Friday. The article doesn't mention me by name, but it singles-out episodes of the web series that I directed (such as the first "Mad Mentsch" episode). I'm very proud of that.

The idea behind having lots of irons in the fire is that if something fails, it's not too heartbreaking because there's so much else that might hold promise. At the moment, with all these irons in all these fires, it doesn't feel like anything is failing. It's a good feeling.

-Arnon