A podcast about movie making and the scifi featurette, Daughter of God, with Director Shri Fugi Spilt, (Dan Kelly). A few totally naked truths about indy film, inspired by kidhood in the 70’s. Wrapping production aboard the big boat in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Hello, out there, Haloooo! Haloooo! echo, echo! I’m talking with you again. Yet another episode of Daughter of Godcast and the vagaries of movie making. Did you ever wonder how podcasting actually feels? Every week, I belly up to the microphone, and the camera too now and I imagine listeners. Here in my studio, no other humans or mega fauna nearby, staring into the black crystal cavern of a Canon lens. I’m just talking to myself over here, yet at the same time, I can feel myself talking to the whole world. Only crazy people talk to themselves, ESPECIALLY if they imagine crowds raptly attending, (crowd roars). Do this in front of a camera for money and maybe they’ll give you an Oscar. We live in a sublime topsy turvy universe. Wonder is so available, so easy to allow.

These podcasts are about movie making, yet we’re exploring topics that might not immediately recognized as strictly relevant. Tonight while doing dishes I reveled in some clarity. I am drafting a manifesto.

For sure these podcasts are supposed to be entertaining, fun to listen to and watch. Fun to make! They are also essay drafts, destined to be condensed down into an extended documentary which I’ll release close behind Daughter of God. If you check the FAQ, a making of documentary is one of my deliverables in the gentle release, originally conceived as a DVD extra, whatever that looks like in distribution. These podcasts have helped to coalesce an exciting premise for the doc – my artist’s manifesto. I’ve been involved in movie making for decades and while I’m totally unknown as a director, I feel poised to transform the medium.

I wanted to say throwing down the gauntlet, but that sounds like I am challenging adversaries, and I don’t really give a shit what the rest of the industry is doing. A Daughter of God documentary would both sketch a map for myself of what’s possible and energize a beacon that other’s of my ilk can see. That’s what I got doing the dishes tonight. Whoa, right?

At first I started generating all this movie making content because I wanted to inspire curiosity about the Daughter of God prior to screening, because I mean what’s the point of a release without an audience? In episode 001, I mentioned that even the cast has kind of written the project off. Which was fine with me, because the project had to find it’s own flowering, as do I. Now the bloom gets brighter and so worthy of sharing.

After my fictional vs real apocalypse quandry in 2009 from episode 012, I stopped working on Daughter of God, shifted gears and decided to make a documentary about artifacts of the future sustainable civilization. Every filmmaker has an unfinished project but only a truly exceptional filmmaker would dare have two.

So screw all that claptrap about building an audience. Yes, I’d love more discerning participants resonating with the crazy transmissions from the Crystal Lake stewardship center. To have a massive amount of people as excited to see my movie as I am to show them. The goal of building an audience doesn’t inspire, but clarifying a really kick ass ILLUSTRATED vision of what’s worth doing? Now we’re talking.