Finished the 5th draft of the script yesterday. The 1st draft ran 87.5 pages; the current one is at 102. (Normal page range for feature-length scripts is between 90 and 120 ( Read more... )

Leslie and I met with the mayor of Coamo yesterday afternoon to request the city government's cooperation with our production of what is now titled The Miracle of la Candelaria -- stuff like providing cops to close off streets and control crowds, making available emergency medical personnel in the event of accidents and firemen in the event of fire ( Read more... )

While the San Blas Marathon's organizing committee had given their approval to our using their marathon in our movie, as I mentioned in my post of December 13, it now turns out they had done so only on the condition that we give them 10% of all profits.

Since we're not willing to do that, we're changing the title of the movie to The Miracle of la ( Read more... )

Leslie, my co-executive producer, phoned yesterday to let me know he had heard from the president of the organizers of the San Blas Marathon that the organizing committee had decided not to give us permission to use their marathon and/or any of their trademarks in our film after all, unless we first agree to give them 10% of any profits the movie ( Read more... )

The marathon's organizing committee and their legal counsel have officially approved our using the San Blas Marathon in our movie ( Read more... )

The first potential sponsor rescheduled.

And we're off!

Met last night with Abdiel Angleró (pronunciation guide: Ab-DEE-ELL Ann-gleh-ROH), whom we've contracted to obtain corporate sponsorships and product integration deals for the movie ( Read more... )

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This happened a couple of weeks ago, but we've confirmed the actress we want to play the part of Loyda Gotay (pronunciation guide: "LOY-dah Goh-TIE), the 17-year-old girlfriend of the protagonist's older brother, who is physically abused by her father. Her name is Jo Blanco and though she's about eight years older than the character, she can ( Read more... )

Finished the 3rd draft of the script last Saturday, December 2nd. It now runs just over 94 pages in standard screenwriting format (up from 88 pages in the first draft and 90 in the second). As a rule of thumb, each page in proper format is roughly equivalent to one minute of screen time ( Read more... )