Life of Kyle Prohaska

I woke up Tues morning a little under the weather.  Itchy throat, feeling a bit “off” I guess you would say.  Not really sick at that point but it was coming.  Standing Firm was Blessed a lot today.  I had a lot of great conversations on the phone, one of them like 2 hours.  It seems more and more others are finding out about our project, asking questions, wondering what our distribution plans are, what’s left to finish, etc.  God brought us two possible investment opportunities to get our film done but until we get a response from one of the distributors that have the film, we’ll wait.  My only worry in having a distributor pay for something on the Post end (particularly the score) is me not having much say in who it is.  We need a great score, but I’m sure they know that lol.

Either way the comments we received were great.  I even spoke to Patrick Dougtie who Directed the recent Letters to God, which will be in theaters this upcoming Spring.  I showed him the first few minutes of the film, an interview clip or two, all comments were very positive  Our fan page on Facebook broke 4600 today which blows my mind!  That’s over double what we had in the beginning of the month.  Fans seem to be praying a lot for our film which is great.  That’s what we really need…is to build up a large following well before the release date is even set.  After the release date is set and we have distribution, start marketing, etc. that fan base will just grow on top of what we have at that point!  Some don’t start anything then by the time the marketing starts they only reach so many before release…we’ve been spreading the word for almost 3 full years, even having a website active 6 months before shooting.  It’s important when your not sure you’ll have any money to market

I think the demand for this movie will be high when the news gets out.  There is so much for people to grab onto in the story and relate to.  It has a lot of layers, where the viewer will either connect with all of them or just one or two, but that’s what makes the film a good sell I think…a wider target.  Even though it’s tailored towards the Christian market (which is a niche market anyways), it’s target within that niche really doesn’t have any limitations. (at least I think so, hopefully I’m not wrong, lol…what a shame that would be!)

Father and son relationships (two of them in this film), marriage issues and unequally yoked relationships, romantic interest for the son (courting and dating for teens), dealing with an unsaved co-worker (very common), loss of loved ones (the suffering lesson can be wrapped into almost any “negative” circumstance), and the list goes on…

I’m extremely excited to see if anyone catches that about our film and makes us an offer.  I want to see this film reach as many people as possible.  It was after all this talking, online chatting, etc. that my body began to shake.  My head was hurting a little and my balance was off.  I normally kick sickness really quickly.  My body is a tank when it comes to that stuff, but when it fights it really hard…it’s like a war going on.  My muscles were aching, body shaking, throat sore, etc.

Like an idiot I decided to go to Vintage tonight because it was a big event I didn’t want to miss.  I was there about 10 minutes and got in the car to come home.  By time I got there, I realized how hard it was going to be to drive home if I didn’t leave.  Ah well, it was worth a try.  When I went to bed, I must’ve crashed hard because after only about 4 hours I woke up at 3am feeling much more normal but my body was on FIRE.  I had a fever and my heart was pumping like crazy.  I counted like 130 bpm and that was after I went downstairs to get something to drink and I had sat for a few minutes.  Luckily my body seemed rested because laying down again really made the headache worse…not fun.  I’ve been up since then and just working on a website that is due really soon.  I’m meeting a guy from that Buffalo Magazine @ 1 in Lewiston so hopefully I’m much more up to driving and going out at that point.

Till next time…*cough*