"Did that just happen?"
It recently dawned on me that it has been 9 months since I last posted about Occurrence at Mills Creek. 9 months, long enough to make a baby… and what a baby we made! On paper we had the perfect Indiegogo campaign with a strong social media imprint and network, as well as coverage in outlets such as Horror News Net and Film Courage. With the advantage of keeping whatever we raised, we set our goal based on our dream budget for what we were trying to do. We didn’t get it, but we did raise enough to move forward. Literally just enough, seeing as there was $3.84 left when we wrapped in August 2019.
The Indiegogo ran right into shooting the first scene for the feature last April with Mia Zanotti, best known from NBC’s The Voice, into a month of prep and shooting 8 marathon days throughout the summer of 2019. We premiered the short in the midst of the feature shoot and throughout the fall it was positively reviewed worldwide by over 40 critics, even earning a “Fresh” Rotten Tomatoes review from Film Threat. To date the short film has been selected to 16 Film Festivals with a total of 38 Award Nominations, 12 of which were wins. We also released a teaser trailer for the feature which has itself garnered 3 Festival wins out of 4 nominations. This led straight into shooting a tie-in music video for Mia Zanotti’s The Way I Used to Know just before the holidays, which will be publicly released in March.
With the new year comes post production on the feature, another tie-in music video for Mia’s Hurt, the release of the short on Amazon Prime later this spring, and of course the premiere of the feature this July and the restart of the cycle of reviews and film festivals. These past 9 months have been quite a creative gestation period, and when the feature premieres this July it will be the end of 43-month journey that began as a joke with Alexa Mechling on set of another project in December 2016.
It recently dawned on me that it has been 9 months since I last posted about Occurrence at Mills Creek. 9 months, long enough to make a baby… and what a baby we made! On paper we had the perfect Indiegogo campaign with a strong social media imprint and network, as well as coverage in outlets such as Horror News Net and Film Courage. With the advantage of keeping whatever we raised, we set our goal based on our dream budget for what we were trying to do. We didn’t get it, but we did raise enough to move forward. Literally just enough, seeing as there was $3.84 left when we wrapped in August 2019.
The Indiegogo ran right into shooting the first scene for the feature last April with Mia Zanotti, best known from NBC’s The Voice, into a month of prep and shooting 8 marathon days throughout the summer of 2019. We premiered the short in the midst of the feature shoot and throughout the fall it was positively reviewed worldwide by over 40 critics, even earning a “Fresh” Rotten Tomatoes review from Film Threat. To date the short film has been selected to 16 Film Festivals with a total of 38 Award Nominations, 12 of which were wins. We also released a teaser trailer for the feature which has itself garnered 3 Festival wins out of 4 nominations. This led straight into shooting a tie-in music video for Mia Zanotti’s The Way I Used to Know just before the holidays, which will be publicly released in March.
With the new year comes post production on the feature, another tie-in music video for Mia’s Hurt, the release of the short on Amazon Prime later this spring, and of course the premiere of the feature this July and the restart of the cycle of reviews and film festivals. These past 9 months have been quite a creative gestation period, and when the feature premieres this July it will be the end of 43-month journey that began as a joke with Alexa Mechling on set of another project in December 2016.
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