WORLD PREMIERE: SCI FI LONDON!

Hello everyone! If you haven't heard Nothing Really Happens will get its world premiere at the fantasy and sci fi festival SCIFILONDON in early May! We are super excited to finally start letting this thing be seen by more people all over the planet.

We are wrapping up a 5.1 mix this week and then we are shipping it across the pond. We'll keep you updated on when and where the film is actually playing as soon as we get word. 

In the meantime, our star Adam Edwards had some nice thoughts on what this means to us and we thought we should share: 

A few years back, a friend of a friend reached out to me to see if I'd read a part for a script he'd written. I knew nothing about it and, figuring it would be a fun afternoon, agreed to fill in for a quick read. A day or so later, he told me I got the part. It was surreal, considering I didn't even know I was auditioning.

I jumped on board. It sounded like a good way to learn more about the craft I had just begun to dive into and an excuse to hang out with some pretty cool people. We thought it would take a few weekends.

It took over two years.

I have been incredibly humbled by the process and have learned just how much emotional energy it takes to create something when you have no one to report to but yourselves. The feeling I would get when I was on set with Justin and Joey started as alien and grew into something very familiar.

I find that I crave it now.

We made this weird little thing because it was something we wanted to make. Something we wanted to see exist in the world. Last week, we learned that there are other people out there who have similar tastes.

Nothing Really Happens, directed by Justin Petty, starring myself and Joseph Graham, will have its world premiere at SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival.

Thank you to everyone who believed in us. To everyone who stuck with us on the long nights and weekends. To our jobs who dealt with us coming in each day on mere hours of sleep. To our city for lending its beauty to our weird thing. To our friends and our families for not abandoning us. To everyone who donated to our fundraiser and made this possible.

We did it. I barely even know what "it" is, but we did it.

And we're going to keep doing it.

Dogs Do Less - Shot!

Been a minute as the Holidays sort of rolled over us and oh yeah....THE ASTROS WON A WORLD SERIES.

After a few months of celebrating being done with the movie and mostly that Astros thing we decided to start piddling with some short stories we wanted to tell, ultimately deciding on this deranged story about siblings who kill their Dad. Always a great topic to explore weird sides of people right?

So as we sit tight with festival submissions (still awaiting to hear from like 20 of them) we have this new thing to work on. Here are some more photos (yes, we got to shoot with a DeLorean) and maybe we will have a little screening somewhere in a month or so! -JG

FIRST SUBMISSIONS/HARVEY

Hello everyone...just wanted to let you know, before Hurricane Harvey began wreaking havoc on Houston, we were able setup our website (nothingreallyhappens.com) and get our first three submissions out the door as the heavy rains were starting to come in last friday. So we will see how we fair with Sundance/Slamdance/SXSW when the time comes. 

But in the real world, a lot of people are suffering in our city and the response we've seen thus far has been amazing/very emotional. We've already done a bit of volunteering and donating between several members of the crew from the movie, and I will just echo what you have probably already heard...just, keep it up as with tragedies like this, there is an initial fervor to help, and then we grow accustomed to it, and not as many people are willing to put in the time/energy/money to help people. But Houston and the south east regions will take a long time to recover and get people back into their homes/back to their lives.

I know my anxiety is just now getting back to a normal level, and I didn't receive any damage or flooding...I can only imagine what it would be like in one of the many shelters, packed with people feeling absolutely crushed by all this. Just continue to do what you can into the next weeks or months as we put the pieces back together, collectively.

#houstonstrong y'all

-NRH Team

Nothing Really Happens is Happening

With funds you provided us from the indie gogo campaign in June, we were able to put on a second (Test) Screening for the movie last week. After our initial screening we shaved off about 4 minutes of the film, and I think everyone agreed it's feeling much tighter!

After last weeks test screening, we are now making some final changes to the film and then will be doing some final polish, and then we will be sending the film off to our first big festival entries with SXSW, Slamdance, and Sundance!

We know these are long shots for our little movie, but sometimes you gotta swing for the fences!

Thanks again to everyone, and we will keep ya posted as we ride this thing on what we hope will be a successful journey of cinema.

Someone signed up for our mailing list!

But it was JP.

Very disappointing. Here are some penguins.