So pleased to have a Laurel to add to the CHRISTMAS RIDE Key Art from the Charleston International Film Festival.  The Title Report is in for the film name of Christmas Ride.  Looks good, per California Entertainment Attorney.
Studying a nine DVD series on Distribution and reading The Angry Filmmaker Survival Guide and continuing to explore the best order to release film.  Currently holding on to dream of Theatrical Release before TV, DVD and web.   Believe I have found source for making some encrypted DVDs for the hard copy Press Kit (in development)  to send to Distribution firms and Studios, which is next step.   Also developing advertising plan with media placement firm for Memphis area, and studying larger roll out, which would require major financial investment.  So goes the life of an indie . . . 

CHRISTMAS RIDE, the screenplay, has been selected as one of the official semi-finalists for the 2013 Charleston International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, ranking in the top 25% of all screenplays received. More about the Charleston International Film Festival www.CharlestonIFF.org  

A new online article about  H T Altman, the male lead in CHRISTMAS RIDE, is now ready for you to read in The Examiner.  Click here.

Auditions for CHRISTMAS RIDE, a dramatic journey toward forgiveness and redemption,  will be held at Coffee in the Attic on the Town Square in Covington, TN Tues, Nov 20 from 4 - 8 PM  112 East Court Square.  Auditions will be recorded on camera.  Some sides are on TalentPages.com or you may present  a short prepared monologue, or do a cold reading from the script.   Here is a link to info on the roles.

Leads KERI, KEVIN, (adults), JOSH, APRIL (children) will require about three weeks of filming.   Many of the other roles will only require one or two days for those scenes.  Those wishing to participate as Extras need to leave contact info and size info, etc.  (Use Sponsor tab for online form if you cannot attend and are in the greater Memphis area).  The anticipated filming schedule is from 6 to 10 PM, M -F, and 9 - 5 Sat. in NOV and DEC, 2012,. in Covington, TN and some locations in Cordova.  

Yarbrough Media Productions  is filming this production in cooperation with Art Promotions.  More about the screenplay is at http://www.facebook.com/ChristmasRide  (Like Us!) See the About section for a synopsis.   A recent article about the author is in the examiner.com      

ART PROMOTIONS is seeking a production studio for the filming of the feature CHRISTMAS RIDE.  Studios in Memphis,TN are in consideration as well as those farther afield such as this large film facility in Shreveport, LA, called Millennium Studio.   The studio must be spacious enough to film this road trip drama which includes some takes within an automobile.    The story is set in 1991, so the car would need to be from that year or earlier and seat four. There are twenty speaking roles with an average of four people in most scenes.  This spiritually uplifting story of redemption needs to be filmed this year.  Is it possible?  Perhaps a TV Production company and studio which regularly produces dramas could make it happen.
 

The Memphis writer's group, Script Write, read the screenplay Christmas Ride by Karen Francis aloud on July 24 and critiqued it afterwards.  The event was filmed and this Table Read is in editing now.