Today’s guest post is the second of three from filmmaker Sol Tryon, whose The Living Wake is currently in theaters.
Like many indie films, with The Living Wake we were continuing to raise money as we went and post-production was no different. We used the dailies from the shoot to show new potential investors what we were creating. Fortunately, Charlie Corwin and Clara Markowicz from Original Media saw our vision and believed in us enough to finance the completion budget and help escort us into the next phase of our journey with the project. After an extended post-production due to schedules, we had a film that we felt surpassed all of our initial expectations for the project. We were sure this was going to be a darling of the film festivals and people all over the world would appreciate our bizarre little movie.
While we knew it was a very particular film and that it wasn’t really headed for big mainstream success, we felt that the film was well crafted, had an amazing combination of comedic wit and emotional sensibilities and that the cult classic potential was off the charts. Unfortunately, we were hitting the festival circuit right at the time when the bottom was falling out of the industry.
