Still alive

Hi all - it´s been a while but we are still at it.
We are fine cutting the film, applying for grants (as always!), and thinking about all the little things that need to be done before this film will screen in June.
It remains to be seen where Family Reunion will actually premiere but I can tell you that it will be playing at a festival in San Francisco around mid-june. We will keep you posted on the actual date.

Another grant for Family Reunion

Things are moving in the right direction for Family Reunion. We have just received a grant from the Icelandic fund "Minningarsjóður Margrétar Björgólfsdóttur". This is a grant in memory of Margret Björgólfsdóttir who died in a car accident in 1989, then 33 years of age. Her family awards the grant, in an effort to support education, arts and culture in Iceland. Við færum Minningarsjóði Margrétar okkar bestu þakkir.

Family Reunion awarded grant

In late December Family Reunion was awarded a grant from the Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund in San Fransisco.
This is the first official grant that the film has been awarded, so we are overly exited.
The credit card bills are being paid off ... slowly but surely.
Many thanks to Frameline for their support.

Cutting picture

Thought you might like to know that we are finally editing. Rough cut is in process and soon we will be looking for musicians to work with. Please drop us a line if interested in composing for Family Reunion. Contact isold@no9productions.com

Red meets yellow

In an effort to show less rather than more (but still something) -- here's what the NYC footage looks like. Doesn't it feel like it's 1969? Almost. Obviously these are dailies - uncolor corrected and raw.

Footage looking good

We are excited about the look of our footage ! It has now all been logged and digitized and next up is audio syncing.

Magno completes Telecine

Magno Sound and Video has completed our telecine. We opted to master on digibeta PAL but will be offlining from DVCAM PAL. I haven't seen the footage yet, as I am waiting to borrow a DVCAM deck. But you will be the first to hear about it.

Steph Misa's photography

Our production assistant, Stephanie Misa has some great shots from
the shoot. Check 'em out:
http://flickr.com/photos/snaggletooth/sets/808016/

Skip bleach

Here's a production still, as color corrected by our DP Óskar Thór Axelsson. It's an idea of how the the skip bleach technique will effect the look of our film.

Film to lab

Our 32 rolls of s16mm film are now being processed at Technicolor. The Icelandic scenes will be processed at normal but for the Chinatown scenes we opted for a technique called "skip bleach". As soon as our dailies are back we will post some clips to our site.