Premiere "Locked-Down"

That title seems to indicate that getting a movie premiere in LA is like a military action. For something smaller-scale, that's hardly the truth. Hell, on a good month, I could afford something like this for one of my projects. Within a year, who knows.

But for now, it's Ray's day in the sun. His documentary has been called, as I probably already wrote, "The Anti-Fahrenheit: 9/11." That's not just praise, that's staggering. To me, anyhow. And Matt and I just set up a premiere, which you'll find out more about, and be able to buy tickets for, at 911PressforTruth.com. It's at CineSpace in Hollywood on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 at 8 PM.

I'm fairly excited, despite a likely silently growing ulcer, about the coming week. On the 17th of August, Matt Saxe and I meet with one of the heads of The History Channel to speak with them about "Vice-Precedence: Being Number Two in the White House." It's a comedic documentary in the vein of our online series Inform Nation, and in fact we're selling it branded with the Inform Nation name.

Everyone who's seen the six-minute spec has really liked it - even in its rough stages (i.e. missing the all-important "this is all ACTUAL FACT" disclaimer that were oblivious to the need for until we realized it could come off as merely "based in fact"). And our polished piece, though not perfect, is what we're showing to the History Channel exec. We're hoping the under-$200 budget excites him and the occasionally sub-par (read "camera mounted") sound doesn't turn him off.

We've made all of our shorts for pennies and we plan to keep it that way, though we hope the pennies increase enough to make this a life-long, life-sustaining enterprise. We've studied the demographics, too, and we think the comedic historical actually hits The History Channel's audience AND that of Comedy Central. We want to pull in the Daily Show viewers that wouldn't normally watch history, but do enjoy their funny news.