Hey. This is cool!
Well. Nothing Really Happens won "BEST FEATURE" in London.
Not much more to say than that it feels pretty good! We are currently finishing up with our experiment on the festival circuit as we await to hear back from several more festivals in the fall, while beginning to write and develop what may end up being our sophomore feature. Hopefully shooting in 2019.
Feels good, bros.
Cheers
Check out Justin Petty's mention in the Houston Chronicle here:
https://www.nothingreallyhappens.com/press/2018/5/10/houston-chronicle-mention
And Joseph Graham's profile in FreePressHouston here:
JK.....it's a very positive review of our little movie from BFI's Sight&Sound Magazine!!! We ended up being the favorite of the fest to one person...we'll see how we fare at Sci-Fi London this week. Cheers!
“Oh, you’re at a crossroads,” says store clerk Behth (Anna Tran) in my favourite film from this year’s SCI-FI-LONDON. Behth is expertly diagnosing the condition of her customer, mattress store owner Dave Stimple (Adam Edwards), as he purchases his first-ever packet of cigarettes at the age of 30. Dave is clearly undergoing an identity breakdown, and looking for change. “I’ve been a passenger to my life,” he complains, as he struggles to rekindle his long-stagnant relationship with wife Jess (Lindsay Gustin), and to be understood – or even just noticed – by anybody else. Dave’s every conversation – with his weird brother-in-law Carl (Joseph Gaham), with neighbour Randy (Bobby Dornbos), with employee Miguel (Sami Ismail) and with Behth – seems to involve a profound lack of connection.
Read the rest here (toward the bottom of page):
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.
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
