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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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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62 pages. 29,018 words. 151,828 characters. Is that a script? The first few chapters of a novel? All of the tweets I’ve ever posted? Nope. It’s the transcript for the 23 interviews shot (so far) for Parkway of Broken Dreams. And that’s not even the full transcript. That’s just the time-coded highlights from the interviews…
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We’ve been back about a week now from a whirlwind two-and-a-half-day excursion to the Pacific Northwest, from which we brought back a lot of interview footage and a seasonal cold, hence why it’s taken us more than a week to post an update. In case you didn’t know, there’s quite a large contingent of musicians,…
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Friday is here! And we crossed an important threshold in our crowdfunding campaign–surpassing 30% of goal–thanks to a bunch of very generous contributions that came in last night. So, today, I present to you a vision of what Parkway of Broken Dreams might have looked like if it was made more than a decade ago: Yep,…
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So, I had just come back from a four-day expedition to Las Vegas, where I was filming interviews for this documentary (or trying; one fell through) and being interviewed by my alma mater (UNLV, ‘natch). It was Wednesday evening, and I had until 11:59 p.m. Friday to finish building a crowdfunding campaign for Parkway of…
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Although this film is a long way off from being finished, after two months of production, I’m proud to share the first teaser trailer for Parkway of Broken Dreams. This labor of love (and sweat) is literally years in the making, even though technically production only began in June of this year. The documentary is…
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