Gosh, Episode 006 of the Daughter of Podcast podcast, with your full of himself host, Dan Kelly, writer, director, talent, guru, sexy boy, cat whisperer. We’re on iTunes now, and a whole bunch of other podcast accumulators, subscribe via your fav service at dog.movie. If you are already listening via a podcast app, there’s all kinds of bonus movies and pix on each episode’s transcription at dog.movie. dog.movie dog.movie, how many times can I say that today? We’ve also got the obligatory Facebook page, Twitter feed, and you can also get updates via Instagram and Linkedin through me, Dan Kelly. You can find all those links at, yep. say it in your head now… hmm hmm hmm hmm.

This is that gentle release I’ve been talking about. We’re feeling our way forward, discovering how to bring this movie to the world and here you are, getting in on the ground floor. We’re still way back in 2006 storywise, but going meta for a hot second, your listening is also part of the story of the making of Daughter of God, because just as this podcast is only bunch of magentic swirls on Utah hard drives until you LISTEN, a movie isn’t a movie until it finds an audience. So that’s cool, right? You’re in the story now. Uh oh.

Episode 006, Technology and…

There’s effort and then there’s knowing. Waking up in the Kingston Ontario Holiday Inn hotel on the morning of April 11, sun streaming in, a big Canadian in the bed next to mine, I knew the game wasn’t over. The situation might seem bleak – my crew and gear divided by national borders, my leading man deported, my leading woman’s work permit completely snarled, location schedule cut short, my skeleton crew minus a bony arm.

The feeling of knowing is hard to describe. There was going to be a way. I didn’t come this far, spend this much money, do all the research, plan… I didn’t get this much energy moving just to be thwarted by national borders. There was way too much momentum.

From the classical perspective feelings don’t matter, right? I mean classical physics. Feathers and cannon balls. Shit happens, and all that whoo whoo energy talk is just bosh.

Movies about movie making are often documentaries of disaster, heart break and conflict. Heart of Darkness relates the intense turbulence encountered by Francis Ford Copolla and Martin Sheen making Apocalypse Now and Lost in La Mancha details the slow implosion of Terry Gilliams Johnny Depp project, Man from LaMancha. a movie that you’ll likely never see, because it utterly failed during production.

Dark Horizons – Don Quixote Delayed Again

So movies with brilliant directors like Gilliam and super stars like Johnny Depp can get all their funding, start production and never get made. How could I imagine my little movie would survive such a significant series of setbacks?

What is luck? Opportunity plus preparation? Maybe. How about a feeling? How about a decision? A decision to feel. I can’t say I felt ecstatic, just a steady readiness. Make no mistake, crap had happened, potentially crippling events. Dire though they appeared, circumstances weren’t relevant when I opened my eyes at the Holiday Inn, that morning. I just needed my Odyssey to cross the border with what remained of our team, and we could start.

Intuition is fluency with emotion. Another word for that is energy, how a moment feels. I’m looking back with an insight I didn’t have then, but I can definitely remember how I felt. I’m clear that decisive buoyant feelings were key to what happened next. Enough bullshit, let’s do this.

Sonya Di Mambro eventually called. She had spoken to the officers at the Landsdowne office, and Carmen was cle