In the process of getting ready for potential film festival appearances and other to-be-announced screenings, as well as the future commercial release of Parkway of Broken Dreams, we collaborated with the inimitable Hernan Valencia to create the new key art that will be seen across all our media, starting with our fabulous new official movie…
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Parkway of Broken Dreams is, for all intents and purposes, ready for the world.* So why haven’t you (probably) seen it yet? For independent films like ours, especially documentaries, there often is not a traditional theatrical release. Oftentimes, making the film festival circuit becomes the theatrical release for an indie, and aside from those festival…
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Well, Parkway of Broken Dreams family, it’s November 2020, and like it has for most of you, our year has not exactly gone as planned. If you caught our last blog update in June, you know that your humble director’s life was turned on its side, and in the months since then, things unfortunately got…
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We blinked, and somehow it’s the end of June. If you’re anything like us, the last four months have felt like either no time has passed or like the longest decade ever. Like many other creative endeavors and other film productions, our world has been rocked not only by the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Wondering what’s happening with Parkway of Broken Dreams? On Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. (PDT), we’re hosting another Facebook Live #AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) session with ye olde director, who will answer your questions about the film live (or if you don’t ask any questions, I’ll just talk about whatever’s on my mind, which could be…
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Can anyone else believe it’s been two months since Christmas? It feels more like it was two weeks ago. But, no, somehow, it’s now almost March, in the year of oh lawd two-thousand-and-twenty, and although it may not look like it, we’ve been busy. Busy on our butts, that is, editing Parkway of Broken Dreams!…
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If you ever have the crazy notion to make a feature-length documentary film, I recommend NOT doing the following things: Choosing a topic that requires a lot of archival footage unless you already have a trove of that footage at the ready Having a demanding day job while making the film Learning certain technical aspects…
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Sorry not sorry for putting this earworm into your head: So, it’s September, and we recently completed a quick footage-gathering trip to Las Vegas to help fill in some of the visual gaps we’ve discovered as editing has progressed on Parkway of Broken Dreams. We’ve also recently acquired more archival footage from the ever-supportive Geoff…
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What if we went on a filming trip to New Jersey and didn’t take any pictures? Would you even believe it happened? Well, this past weekend, it did happen, and no, we didn’t bring back any photos. But we did get a certain former host of “Poetry Alive” at Cafe Espresso Roma to sit down…
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We love a good pun. And, apparently, a bad one, too. A few weeks ago, we checked off a major “to-do” from our list: Interviewing Lenadams Dorris, the man who opened the short-lived but highly influential Newsroom coffeehouse on Maryland Parkway (following its equally short-lived stint in downtown Las Vegas), and later helped sustain and…
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