Being the incurable romantic that I am, I simply love this 15 min film created by
joshandjosh.I desire you know it too. Sorry, there’s no sex, but only a sweet love history with some very tender kissing.The chase is copied from joshandjosh.typepad.com, the blog of the guys who made the film. It helps explain a little about their work.Oh my god, it’s tough to love where to start. All of this is so crazy.On Sunday, March 22, Josh K. and I debuted our short film “Jonathan, Just Because” (which we made with Kirsten Major and Adam Lehman) at a swank little sofa in Midtown Manhattan in face of a standing-room-only crowd of more than a hundred very supportive, fantastic friends. The lovely and talented Mr. Hunter Bell, co-writer and co-star of Broadway’s [title of show] (and presumptive Tony nominee), served as host of the evening, introducing the picture and lead a Q&A afterward.It was crazy, crazy, crazy.And amazing.The whole thing started on November 23, 2008, when, over burritos in Brooklyn, Kirsten and I view it might be fun to create a light movie with Josh K. at the helm as director. Two years later Kirsten had a drawing of the book in my hands, then I spent some time rewriting it, and so she spent some time revising my draft, and so we handed it over to Josh K. He was all around it, ready get back into filmmaking, excited about the level and the characters, and set to put his fancy little camera to use.In December we started casting and first saw Adam Lehman and, after one reading, we knew he was the one we wanted for Nick. After a few table reads and rehearsals, and several rewrites, we began shooting in early January, beginning with a seven-hour shoot on the Brooklyn Heights promenade (the second aspect of the film) in freezing weather. But, no matter: The picture had started, and we were really, really excited.Over the future couple months we had eight shooting days, some of them going long into the night, resulting in cast sleepovers at my home in Brooklyn, sprawled out all over my apartment. And then, the final few years earlier the film’s New York premiere, Josh and I huddled up in the editing studio, working 10 hours one day, a few more the next, and so the final day–the evening before the premiere–we pulled a 19-hour all-nighter.But, at last, we had a film.And, by god, The New York Times covered it, Next magazine ran a big ol’ picture and a listing (and HX magazine ran a listing, too), and–bam!–then we had the premiere.And now, finally, the movie goes online this weekend at Towleroad.com, ready for its worldwide release.I can’t say you how much fun we had making the film. I can’t say you how many trials we too had, but all of them, in the end, worth it. What we each learned about every aspect of filmmaking–from writing to directing, acting to lighting, sound design to editing, set scouting to film promotion–is actually pretty phenomenal. In a way we created something of a graduate seminar in indie filmmaking, and having this project online feels a small bit like graduation day.Josh and I promise you love it.
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