Lunching with Rob
On Sunday Jason, Erin & I went to the cities bright and early (7am ugh). We had meetings with some actors, some potential actors and later we were meeting up with our new friend, Rob Nilsson, whom we met at the Fargo Film Festival.
Our first meeting was seriously late. So late that we thought it was not going to happen and it soon became eclipsed by the 2nd meeting...which went swimmingly well. Out of that meeting we cast 3 members of a band which we just formed! Yes!
Finally our potential actor/rapper showed up and that meeting went very very well too - and we finished up casting the 2nd half of our "old testament" rap duo. Yay!! Score two!
At about 12:15 we walked over to the St. Anthony Main theater where Rob was showing his new film OPENING as a part of the Minneapolis St. Paul Int'l Film Festival. We talked with Rob for a bit and sat down to enjoy the film. It was really a lot of fun. He made in in conjunction with a group of actors in Kansas...it was a 3 day process. Day one - actor exercises/workshop come up with ideas; days 2 and 2 1/2 shoot the entire film "direct action" style. It was really a cool little film and I enjoyed it. At first I was intimidated sitting next to Rob, the director, but I just started to relax and laugh when I wanted to and loosen up and it was really a lot of fun.
Afterwards we had lunch & wine and chatted all afternoon about OPENING, upcoming projects, future collaborations, etc. Rob is the kind of person that really just makes you feel fantastic. He's so genuine and sincere and gives a lot of insight - not only to filmmaking but to relationships, art, life, etc.
We ended up persuading Rob to join our production of GOD ROCKS and he will be playing the role of the street preacher-atheist. I can't wait! We have some other projects looming on the horizon as well.
Our first meeting was seriously late. So late that we thought it was not going to happen and it soon became eclipsed by the 2nd meeting...which went swimmingly well. Out of that meeting we cast 3 members of a band which we just formed! Yes!
Finally our potential actor/rapper showed up and that meeting went very very well too - and we finished up casting the 2nd half of our "old testament" rap duo. Yay!! Score two!
At about 12:15 we walked over to the St. Anthony Main theater where Rob was showing his new film OPENING as a part of the Minneapolis St. Paul Int'l Film Festival. We talked with Rob for a bit and sat down to enjoy the film. It was really a lot of fun. He made in in conjunction with a group of actors in Kansas...it was a 3 day process. Day one - actor exercises/workshop come up with ideas; days 2 and 2 1/2 shoot the entire film "direct action" style. It was really a cool little film and I enjoyed it. At first I was intimidated sitting next to Rob, the director, but I just started to relax and laugh when I wanted to and loosen up and it was really a lot of fun.
Afterwards we had lunch & wine and chatted all afternoon about OPENING, upcoming projects, future collaborations, etc. Rob is the kind of person that really just makes you feel fantastic. He's so genuine and sincere and gives a lot of insight - not only to filmmaking but to relationships, art, life, etc.
We ended up persuading Rob to join our production of GOD ROCKS and he will be playing the role of the street preacher-atheist. I can't wait! We have some other projects looming on the horizon as well.
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Awesome Carrie!