tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666Mon, 09 Sep 2024 03:27:30 +0000http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)Blogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-5734130191648982404Mon, 07 May 2007 14:20:00 +00002007-05-07T07:27:24.069-07:00Hi all!We're chugging along. We had a very exciting week last week. We got a call from the lead singer of the band that sings the last song in the film. For those of you who have seen it, you know who that is. For the rest of you, we will reveal that information soon.Let me just paint the picture. I'm 71/2 months pregnant, packing boxes because my family's moving, and I realize that I haven't http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2007/05/progress.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-7165837027690834107Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:11:00 +00002007-04-19T09:15:02.385-07:00I watched this great piece on 60 minutes the other night about the Duke Lacrosse case. The paralells with this and the Bakersfield cases are amazing. I'm really glad that justice won out in this case. Check it out if you didn't get a chance to see it.http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtmlhttp://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2007/04/duke-lacrosse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-1844147365011497453Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:15:00 +00002007-04-17T19:20:47.484-07:00That's actually the name of a course at UC Berkeley (of course it is!) Don't you wish they had that class when you went to college? Well, Don, John and I went to speak today to the Rebellion and Conformity class today about John's ordeal and our documentary. They seemed like a very cool group of students. They seemed interested and engaged in what we had to say. It was a great way to spend an http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2007/04/rebellion-and-conformity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-4536542250501270644Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:24:00 +00002007-03-21T09:31:10.724-07:00Hi. I thought I would pass along some relevant articles that I find. The interesting thing about the following AP article is the similarites to John Stoll and the others in our film. John did get compensation from the state (he was the only person in our film to get this kind of compensation.) Some of the others won civil suits and others got nothing. Regardless, there is an amazing http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2007/03/compensation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-5136334319637688647Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:06:00 +00002007-03-20T21:11:19.721-07:00Hello all.Sorry I haven't been blogging lately. I wrote this really long blog after our screening last month and it got erased right away which annoyed me so I lost my enthusiasm to write after that. But don't worry, I'm back!!! Things have been going well. We've been tweaking away since the screening and now we're really trying to nail down the narration issue. If this can happen in the next 6http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2007/03/getting-word-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-4564321192916551456Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:27:00 +00002007-02-20T13:50:12.413-08:00We had our first screening yesterday at Santa Clara University. It was awesome to see it in a room with 40 people. We passed out response cards and got some GREAT feedback. Peter is going to put some of the comments up on our website. We are going to do some tweaking on the film after we compile the data from the response cards. Go Julie, she's in charge of this task. It seemed like people were http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2007/02/first-screening.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-6221275726788640648Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:13:00 +00002007-02-02T20:32:58.619-08:00We had a meeting with our market research consultant yesterday. We sound so sophisticated don't we! It's just that we have all these really talented friends that are providing their services for us for free. So, Julie... a PhD from Stanford is helping us prepare for our screening. After watching the movie and meeting with us, she is coming up with a questionnaire for the screening.Speaking of thehttp://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2007/02/were-plowing-ahead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-116805861768571621Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:38:00 +00002007-01-05T20:43:37.693-08:00Hello friends.This has been a big week for us. We actually have a completed cut.... it's coming in at an hour and thirty seven minutes. We've showed it to our significant others and my mom - I admit, not an impartial crowed. But, so far so good. They all seem to really like it. My mom even shed a tear at the end. I made my mom cry. Per Don's idea, I think we may be flip/flopping the first two http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2007/01/big-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-116570820429724114Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:32:00 +00002006-12-09T15:50:04.310-08:00Don and I are at his house having out typical Saturday fun. We are actually working on the last scene! Can you believe it? After all this time???? Very exciting. I'm pretty sure it's going to be right in the ball park of an hour and a half. That's exactly what we want. I'm actually pretty shocked that it is timing out. I'd love it to be an hour and 27 minutes. For those of you who have never http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2006/12/saturday-fun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-116510688527908429Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:42:00 +00002006-12-02T16:48:06.746-08:00Hey Witch Hunt Fans!So, Don and I watched the whole film minus the last scene the other day. Boy, was that energizing! You see, we have been editing one or two scenes at a time for the last six months or so. We saw the first 20 minutes all together. But since then we haven't really seen a good chunk. I was getting nervous because who knew if all the transitions would work. And honestly they http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2006/12/getting-somewhere.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-116432512188993177Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:29:00 +00002006-11-23T15:38:41.903-08:00We have a special guest with us today, which is Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! Anyway, our friend John Stoll is here with us in Palo Alto on this fine day. It's been very nice to see his face! He arrived last night and will be staying through Saturday. Yay for us. So I thought while I have him here I would ask him a few questions and write his answers for all of you. In case you http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2006/11/special-guest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-116331460117807946Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:44:00 +00002006-11-11T22:56:41.186-08:00Hi, y'all.Things are moving right along. Don and I work religiously every Saturday, and today was no exception. Admittedly, Don did way more work than I. I had to log some extra Saturday hours with the fam because of my trip to LA earlier in the week. That was for my day job at NBC.Anyway, when I returned home on Wednesday I had a pleasant surprise waiting for me. A huge box from Brenda and http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2006/11/letters-from-prison.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-116252754969582208Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:45:00 +00002006-11-02T20:19:09.723-08:00So, I don't know if our website really addresses the fact that we are working with the Northern California Innocence Project. I've been working with them for so long that I just assume everyone knows about the Innocence Project... do you? If not, here's a little explainer. The Innocence Project started in New York and has satellite groups all over the country. Our local one is in Santa Clara, http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2006/11/innocence-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-116149695374958126Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:48:00 +00002006-10-21T23:09:22.450-07:00Hi friends,It's been so long since I've written (Peter wrote that last one.) We're happy to be back, I think we weathered that last storm with that out of the blue media coverage. Gosh, who knew that a film that's not even done yet, that really no one knows much about would be news. Strange. Anyway, things are going along quite well. We've got about 40 minutes or so edited pretty well and about http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2006/10/viral-marketing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35722666.post-116036841951614666Mon, 09 Oct 2006 04:19:00 +00002006-10-08T21:33:39.523-07:00We had to go stealth for a few months, but we're back. Not that we don't like attention, but we got a little too much earlier in the summer at a time when we needed to focus on the grunt work of making a movie.In short, a TV station aired a news story about the documentary (without contacting us) and the story was subsequently picked up by the AP wire and reported on in five California papers. http://luckyexitfilms.blogspot.com/2006/10/were-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dana Nachman)0