by Colette Freedman | Jul 21, 2018 | Acting, Miles Underwater, Writing
Miles Underwater begins and ends in the same place. The writers wrote it. The producers encouraged it. The director actualized it. Miles Underwater takes place in one day. The messages and symbolism in the film will be interpreted for years…but, for now, it...
by Colette Freedman | Jul 21, 2018 | Acting, Miles Underwater, Writing
In Quality Problems (now avail on VOD, Amazon, iTunes, etc… do you have YOUR copy yet?) Max Purdy KILLED IT in the scene where he discovers his mother has cancer. On set, the then ten-year-old hit his emotional marks EVERY SINGLE TIME…. His emotional depth...
by Colette Freedman | Jul 20, 2018 | Writing
Today we held for a dinosaur (a screaming T Rex in the San Antonio Zoo) who roared every time someone passed his motion sensor. Today we held for a homeless couple who were having a fairly intense domestic dispute. Today we held for 16 trains. Sound is...
by Colette Freedman | Jul 18, 2018 | Writing
#choosehope is our hashtag This entire film experience has been about hope: Leaping and hoping that the net will appear. Giving out call times and hoping that we will make our days. Hope that an entire cast and crew will be inspired enough by this story to...
by Colette Freedman | Jul 17, 2018 | Films, Miles Underwater, Poetry
Today, we spent the day on bridges. There are bridges in Miles Underwater. Why wouldn’t there be… it is a film with the word underwater in the title. And we are shooting in San Antonio, which is a city filled with a lot of water and a lot of bridges....
by Colette Freedman | Jul 16, 2018 | Miles Underwater, Writing
While our producers worked their Tuchuses off scouting locations & prepping for the second 1/2 of our shoot, our cast went to Schlitterban – Texas’s biggest waterpark. We have two days off in our fifteen days of filming. Today was our second day off....
