Editing Editing Editing

Film Week was a success for us-- we couldn't thank the team at the Independent Feature Project (www.ifp.org) enough for all they have done for us since we started this project. We had some great meetings, made some even better contacts, and it was a lot of fun getting to talk shop over a few beers with fellow filmmakers.

Deadlines are coming up for the spring film festival circuit, so we are now up to our ears in editing. We've got 200+ hours of interview footage to dig through, and I just ordered roughly 5 hours of archival footage to be transfered into HD video. Over half of the material we found at the National Archives (www.nara.gov) has never been copied for use in any film, and we even found a few reels that have never even been taken off the shelf-- it feels pretty amazing to be the first person in almost 60 years to look at these images of the Chosin Reservoir Campaign. Lots of work to do and it's a race against time.

On a side-note, I wanted to tell everyone about a film titled Lebanon written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Samuel Maoz. I took the time to watch the film at the New York Film Festival this week, and was blown away. The picture focuses on a tank team fighting in the 1982 Leabanese War. As a combat veteran, I have to say that Samuel Maoz did an amazing job of showing a very intimate, human, and realistic portrait of soldiers in combat. As a filmmaker, I applaud his mastery of the craft-- great script, beautiful cinematography, and the sound shook you out of your seat and made you feel like you were in the tank with the characters in the film. I don't believe that the film has been released in the US as of yet, but keep an eye out for it in the future-- hopefully on Netflix at the least. Here's an article on the film in Variety: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117945011.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Semper Fi,

Anton