Director’s Notes

On micro-budget filmmaking:

A feature film shot in approximately 45 hours with 5 crew members in 7 locations over 9 nights with 10 actors…

There comes a time in every artists life when passion eclipses the logical mind and you become officially crazy. How long you stay crazy depends on your mission. I thought I had reached the brink of insanity when I embarked on this project but every day during the shoot I kept thinking I was crazier than the day before. And what’s even CRAZIER is that I had cast and crew supporting me, who were  dedicated, who wanted this film to happen just as much as me. …how cool is that?...or how crazy is that?

Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I did the same thing repeatedly over 9 nights and once more I GOT different results each time! So not to disprove Einstein but what am I supposed to make of that? One conclusion I arrived at is I’m not as insane as I thought I was. Another is Einstein wasn’t as clever as everyone makes him out to be.

On Saturday’s theme:

In every ending there is a beginning and in every beginning there is an ending.

I realized when I was shooting the film that, even though there are three separate stories dealing with birth, death and marriage, the themes are not all that different. In birth, death and marriage one must let go of the old and embrace the new. The other thing that struck me is that each story has a different reason for shedding tears. Whether it’s tears of joy, tears of pain or tears of loneliness it all comes from the same place – our hearts. In retrospect I think the reason I wrote Saturday is to remind us of our humanness, our value to one another and the influence we have or can have over each other.