2008

In 2008 I woke up from that “dream” with a finished script. Now, I just needed to find the funding and everything would come together. Not so easy.

There are thousands of writers, filmmakers, con-artists, pseudo-artists and bad filmmakers, vying for the same window. And if you say film, everyone looks at you with dollar signs in their faces until they see you are not coming from Hollywood. And the first, superficial doors close. These are great times to meet and know the friends who will remain in one’s life.

There were some close calls. People were interested in investing or serving as guarantors. There was even an offer to work with people from India. At the moment it sounded so good, since the story involves re-incarnation. But this situation as well as a few others fell through for different reasons, such as discrepancy in budgets, misunderstandings, and even one group being interested in acquiring the script and work with their own people to produce the film. My goal is to make this film, not to write scripts and sell them. That rejection was mutual, but it was disappointing nevertheless.

2008 came to an end with a few re-writes, associates that never became, and a slight feeling of gloom.