Louis and I are collaborating on a short animated film together and have been in development for a frickin' year! No one said making a short film was easy, especially if you want to make it good. We've spent the entire year brainstorming, meeting up every month, researching at libraries, location scouting, interviewing daycare employees and preschool teachers... and receiving the Toronto Arts Council grant is a milestone for the production and shows that we're definitely headed in the right direction and people believe in our concept. We're happy to say this year we've now added a new person to our team: Linda Milan as our producer. We met her at Ryerson while taking screenwriting and it's great that she recently won an award for best student in her producing class! Louis and I also were nominated for our script for this short film (which is why we took the screen writing class).
This is Linda and Louis at our weekly meeting over paper work and budget and the sort.
And she's been a hella lot of help getting our proposal together, providing insight on grants and everything. It has definitely allowed us to focus on what we need to do while moving forward.
We're currently meeting up with friends right now to see who would like to be involved in the project, from the people we've talked to they seem excited to join the team! I'll keep posted on details on the film. A website should pop up soon specifically for the project and our documentation of our progress.
