Lack of Action

OK, I am embarrassed, even ashamed that I have not updated this blog in almost 2 years.  Even worse is that I have made virtually no progress on the documentary in almost as long.

I have a long list of excuses for my procrastinating ways.  Some are legit, but most are pathetic.  But let me give you a run down on where things are at today, and what has transpired in the past 2 years.

The Canadian folk festival tour provided for hours and hours of great material.  Of course when you are touring with The Grandmaster it is inevitable that sooner or later the experience will morph into something out of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  Or in our case, Fear and Loathing in Regina.  But there were also some great artistic moments as well.   

Returning to Belize the next, and last, road trip was a quick 3 day trip to Mexico City in October 2006 where GM played 2 shows with a really good jazz band.  

This was the end of shooting with GM for me.  I felt I needed to stop shooting and finally find my story within the existing material.  Otherwise I could continue shooting for years waiting for something else to happen.  I need to have faith that my story is already there, and now my job needs to switch to writer and editor to find and present it.  

So since wrapping principal photography, I have been a bit (no a lot!) lazy about moving on to the next phase of production.  Originally I was hoping that CINERGIA would support post production with a grant that would allow spend a few months editing without worrying about finding other work.  Unfortunately that did not happen.  So I decided to put the doc on hold until spring 2007, but a combination of an incredibly busy work schedule followed by some personal challenges left me with either no time or no energy to get my head back into the film last summer as planned.  Then came fall 2007 and winter 2008 and my busy season started all over again.  So now here I am, May 2008, with enough time and energy to finally get to work on editing my film.  All I have to deal with now is my own inherent lazyness!