Just saw a bit of the new Audie & The Wolf DVD being put together by the producers. It was authored at Titra Film in Glendale. I’d initially offered to do the authoring, but this year’s workload has been way too heavy for me to take on designing a full DVD release, especially knowing my penchant for going overboard with DVD features like I did on the Bleak Future release. The Audie disc is a DVD9, which means it holds more space than the usual DVD5, which means they had to compress the HD LESS to fit on the disc, which means it’s a good quality picture for the movie itself. Plus, the audio is 5.1 Surround, with the option of going simple stereo. The only other features are Spanish subtitles and Closed Captions, Scene Selection with motion menus (all the motion menus on the disc get rather annoying actually), and a Behind The Scenes video and a Deleted Scenes video that I hurriedly cut together a few months ago.

The Deleted Scenes contain the original Rachel/Rina scene as Rachel comes home with the Wolf, an extended Jane and John dancing scene, and the original Father Bailey ending where he tries to exorcise the Wolf. I cut that out because it just felt a bit flabby, despite the great performances. The artwork all over the menus, and presumably all over the package itself, as I haven’t seen it yet, will be Miguel Martinez’s key art that we used for the foreign key art deliverables to our sales agents at Multivisionaire – the dogbowl/blue sky art. All and all, happy to get it to dvd and move on to the next thing. Sad to report that the producing team really imploded this year. I’m looking forward to a new team and some better vibes.

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Who knew? My film Audie & The Wolf is getting into film festivals left and right. Pretty goddamn fucky cool if you ask me.

Cinequest Film Festival – San Jose – Feb 28 and Mar 3
SENE Film Film Festival – Rhode Island – April 4
Buffalo-Niagara Film Festival – New York – Tues May 5
Another Hole in The Head Film Festival – San Francisco (Date TBA)
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival – Sat Apr 25

More details as they come in over at the Audie & The Wolf official site:
http://audieandthewolf.com

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Audie’s been selected to play the 19th Annual Cinequest Film Festival as part of the New Visions Competition, where it will be eligible for the New Visions Award and the Audience Award. Our screening dates are:

SAT, 2/28 – MIDNIGHT (Camera 12 Cinemas)
TUES, 3/3 – 9:30PM (San Jose Rep Theatre)

See you in San Jose!

B.

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Audie and The Wolf, the feature I wrote, directed, edited, and produced with Brooklyn Reptyle Films, and have been working on all year, is almost done with post-production. Smart Post Sound in Burbank is handling the entire sound package, from sound design to ADR to foley to mix. Composer Karl Preusser had a bit of a setback when his mixing engineer was hospitalized briefly, but the engineer has recovered and is finishing up the mixes this week. Devon Read continues to crank out CG and compositing shots – the details of which I’ll keep under wraps for now – and we’re close to locking down a colorist for the final colour correction the film’s gonna need. Just a few more weeks and Audie and The Wolf is flatass finished, fucko.

click to play the Audie trailer

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Slangman, a travelling salesman of words and relics from the 21st century (like soda cans and Twinkies), teams up with a tongueless Scottish warrior and a stupid blonde actress to cross the post-nuclear wastelands to battle madmen and savage mutants in search of a legendary place called “The Source,” an oracle of ancient wisdom rumored to hold the power to enlighten the world… or destroy what’s left of it.

From filmmaker B. Scott O’Malley comes this off-beat B-movie comedy-adventure in the independent and satirical spirit of Mad Max and Monty Python that’s sure to take you where no cult movie has ever taken you before!

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