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In the summer of 2011, some friends of mine and I made our first semi-professional short. A few of us had been making handy-cam horrors for years but we were able to get a bit of money put together to hire a crew, professional actors, and a great EFX artist. You can view our effort here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvrqFEokqcM We set off into the woods of cottage country, Ontario, Canada on the hottest weekend of that summer to get into layers of makeup and make our zombie mockumentary. The Post-Lifers is a mockumentary that looks at a day in the life from the point of view of a group of zombies who have decided to let a human documentary film-maker tell their story. Ultimately the old Dawn of the Dead adage “they are us” applies. We’ve spent the better part of the last year and a half screening our short film at various film festivals. We ultimately screened at 25 throughout Canada, the USA and Germany and the UK. Response was great – we ended up being awarded 7 Best Film/Best Short awards. I really wish I’d been able to go to more of the festivals, there’s nothing quite like seeing your film play to a packed house of people who are laughing along with the jokes. The reviews we’ve got have been very positive – Char Hardin of Charred Remains gave us the honour of naming us her favourite short independent horror film of 2012! http://charhardin.blogspot.ca/2012/12/post-lifers.html http://www.zedwordblog.com/2012/04/post-lifers-short-film-review.html Our festival run has now come to a close, and we want to share the film with more people than those who happened to be at a festival where we were running. We’re also very open to constructive criticism. We got a lot of that by watching the film with audiences who had no involvement in the film’s production – you rapidly learn what works and what doesn’t. Before we had our first festival screening we’d shown it in a few places to people other than friends and family and that was absolutely invaluable. We cut a 24 minute short down to 14 minutes. We learned that what’s funny on paper or even funny in performance isn’t always funny within the context of the rest of the film. Pacing, pacing pacing. This short was a huge learning experience for us. We’ve taken the lessons we’ve learned and are applying them to more shorts. We’ve produced one more Post-Lifers short, another short horror comedy that’s just starting its festival run now and completed principal photography on another Post-Lifers short a few short weeks ago, hopefully to be edited and available soon. We ended up with a large budget for a film of this length primarily because we wanted the makeup EFX to look great. The masks are all good quality silicone and our intent was that we could re-use that initial EFX investment in other shorts, which we are doing now. Our poster design was done by a very talented artist name James Riehl, we felt his cartoony style really fit in with the tone of the film:
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therattle posted:I'd like to PM or email you with some questions and comments on financing and distribution. Financing and distribution, the how's and where's, could easily have its own thread  We'd like to graduate to doing features, but getting money to do them and knowing where and to whom to sell them afterwards is beyond us.
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