Much to our delight, Stephen L. Johnson, ACE has offered to cut ‘Reco’. Excited and moved by the story of young Annie, Stephen couldn’t get his hands on the footage fast enough, refusing to wait for the RED transcodes (for the offline edit), he did them himself and started early workflow tests before we even had approval from our investors (though we were confident he was a shoe-in). Stephen has a rich, and deep history in period, dramatic films, with a breadth of experience in cutting every format from IMAX to television. Also, to our delight, Jennifer Russell is on-board as assistant editor, and we are thrilled to have the edit of our film in their collective and very capable hands.

Keep posted for more news as the rest of our post team continues to unfold.

Well, its been a little while since our last post. Reco finished principal photography the last week of June. We’ve been so busy preparing for it, we haven’t had much time to do anything else, literally. Don and Megan quietly continued working on their projects, but most of our weekly meetings were consumed almost entirely by Reco production details. Now that production has finished, we’re hoping to start refocusing on those projects again, but Reco is far from finished itself.

This week we’ve been directing our attention at rounding off our post team. Michaela has been onboard for post audio from the beginning, and and Rob was selected for VFX early on too, but editorial, colorist, and composer have been an unknown. We’re exploring a few promising leads here and there, determined to make to best decision and hire the best person possible for the positions, but budget is still a constraint. We’re definitely excited by the prospects. We’ll let you know as soon as we do! It won’t be long though, we have to make a selection on the editor by this weekend if we are going to hit our schedule for the Sundance submission deadline.

Until next time!