DougBlock

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Re: Help Doug promote 51 Birch ...
By DougBlock in 51 Birch Street
"that's pretty much what i'm doing, paul. in fact, did email cuban two weeks ago. still haven't heard back. what can i say? " [More]

Re: Q&A with filmmaker Doug ...
By DougBlock in 51 Birch Street
"Hi ktincu (you guys have weird names here), Good questions re did I think my parents staying together was the right thing to do? I didn't deal with it in the film because I thought it important that I be driven by my shock and dismay over seeing my mother replaced so easily by my father. It helped the arc of the story with my father to be coming from there. In real life, admittedly, didn't think about that much. I mean, it's sad because I didn't realize until making the film how fundamentally mismatched my parents were. I thought they were so compatible - as did almost everyone else. I do think now they would have both been happier with others, and it's painful. I'd like to think I would have understood at the time, but that's easy to say in retrospect. Thanks for posting and really hope you'll share your story on the film's website. " [More]

Re: About the film
By DougBlock in 51 Birch Street
"patches, my family is really proud of the film and they love going around to screenings and being part of the Q&A's afterwards. and the dvd has been passed around to all extended members of the family all year, and done a lot to bring some of us togther. for instance, i got a long email from a first cousin who hadn't spoken to our side of the family in 20 years because of all these grudges she had with her own parents (she's a psychiatrist, of course). " [More]

Re: Help Doug promote 51 Birch ...
By DougBlock in 51 Birch Street
"Thanks for the tips, everyone. We've fixed up our myspace page a bit: www.myspace.com/51birchstreet. It has our newly edited trailer, which I like a lot. We've been trying to get it placed everywhere: Netscape, Yahoo, iklipz, AOL moviefone, etc. It's a ton of work. The best thing is we're getting a good amount of old media placement. The film will be the subject of a New York Times feature article in the Arts and Leisure section next Sunday. And I was interviewed yesterday for the AARP Bulletin, which may not be as sexy but goes out to only 36 million readers! I'm curious about trying to get word out through bloggers. Which blogs would you recommend I approach, and how would you suggest I approach them? " [More]

Re: Q&A with filmmaker Doug ...
By DougBlock in 51 Birch Street
"Thanks for the post, patches. And for gasping, chuckling and crying. Whatever stuff of my mother's (like clothes, jewelry, personal items) that my sisters and wife and daughter didn't claim, my father gave to Goodwill, I believe. My sister Ellen has 2 of the 3 cartons of journals, I have the other. No, I haven't read everything... and don't intend to. " [More]

Re: Q&A with filmmaker Doug ...
By DougBlock in 51 Birch Street
"Wow, quint, what an amazing, thoughtful response! I hardly know how to respond adequately (especially since I don't have much time, I'm about to run out). No, I didn't have the kind of fuller exchange with my mother that I had with my father, and it's a huge regret. On the other hand, I might not have felt the need to make this film as strongly. The danger of other people reading your diaries is that they may not be able to put them in the proper context, and so it will be hurtful. With my mother's, I took great care to put them in context, but it wasn't easy. I think the important thing is to leave a note behind as to your intentions with them. As for me, I want no one reading mine. As for embarassment, yes I suppose I record things the way my mom did with her diaries - the big difference is that I went back and painstakingly edited my material. The truly embarassing stuff was left on the cutting room floor, believe me. " [More]

Re: About the film
By DougBlock in 51 Birch Street
"Yeah, it's a very personal film about good ol' mom and dad, so it is kind of odd to be getting this kind of attention. NOT that I'm complaining, mind you. " [More]

Re: Spout event details
By DougBlock in 51 Birch Street
"And this is the director, himself, chiming in for the first time. Very pleased to be taking part in this event. 51 Birch Street will be released theatrically via Truly Indie beginning Oct 18 in NY, Oct 20 in LA, then rolling out to San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston and others. So you'll be getting a sneak preview well ahead of the rest of the country. I've told Paul I'm happy to talk in detail here about the Truly Indie model of distribution, which is a kind of hybrid between what a normal small distributor would do (and get all of your other rights, like tv and dvd, in the process) and what's known as a service deal, where you hire a distributor to do their thing but you keep all your other rights. But what I'm really excited about is the idea of exploring with Spout members how to do grassroots marketing in this day and age of internet social networking. You probably know as much or more about it than I do, so it could be a great exchange of information and ideas. ... " [More]