Better Late Than Never

The edit is 99% done. Our movie is down to 84 minutes. We need to watch it once more stem to stern, make sure color corrections are consistent, do an ADR tweak on two final thought segments, possibly lay down some ambient sound or quiet score beneath certain moments. Then it'll be time to export to a DVD, cut a trailer to put on the web, and start submitting to film festivals.

We're also about to launch our exciting Free Speech Forum, once we muddle through the template, style sheet and HTML nightmare. We're also brainstorming a better name for the Forum, in case it takes on a life of its own beyond the film.

All in all, we've been immensely productive in 2006 so far. Perhaps it was the inspiration of George Clooney's "Good Night, Good Luck," that has spurred us toward action. Perhaps it was Alec Baldwin's blog at The Huffington Post in which he called Cheney an "oil thieving whore" that reminded us that we're on the right track.

With a Gubernatorial election coming in California, we all need to get off our collective butts and make sure that Ah-nold doesn't get any more time in office. Verstehen sie?