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Coming soon to a film fest near you (we hope.)

Published on July 12, 2010 in Crossing the Lake, Festivals, Films, Thesis and Trailers. Closed

The full trailer of our latest film is now online. We’ve had some really great feedback on it so here are some links if you haven’t seen it yet.:

http://www.caledonianightsky.com/crossingthelake

There’s also a link on our facebook page for the film here.

The track is from Ray Lynch who provided most of the instrumental music for the film. You can find this track “The Oh of Pleasure” and others here.

Thanks for all the support we’ve received as we made the film. The trailer will be used in the press kit as we submit to fests and it will be included on the DVD too. Hope you enjoy it!

- Jer

‘CROSSING THE LAKE’ Update

Published on June 21, 2009 in College, Films and Thesis. Closed

Below is a link to the facebook page for the new short film we are working on.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crossing-the-Lake

The actual website (http://www.caledonianightsky.com/crossingthelake) is being designed and should be live soon.

The new film tells the tale of Patrick Turkel, a thirty-something store clerk who decides to breakaway from his rather dull and unfulfilling life. In order to do this he decides to follow through on a long-forming but risky idea in order to overcome his personal fears and change the course of his life for the better.

And if he fails, well he’s probably gonna die.

CROSSING THE LAKE – Look for it in May 2010!

Audition info for THE WAVES

Published on May 8, 2009 in Casting, Films and Thesis. Closed

Hi everyone,

The first round of auditions for THE WAVES are set for Saturday, May 23rd.

We only ask for a monologue. We may ask you to read a small section. It should not take more than ten minutes.

To schedule a time call (815) 742-7410 or e-mail us at casting@caledonianightsky.com

We’ll have callbacks towards the middle/end of June and then have our decision by the first week of July.

Thanks!
- Jer

Casting begins!

Published on April 20, 2009 in Casting and Thesis. Closed

We’ve started casting! This is our first casting notice which we will be posting and submitting around the trades and agencies.
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The Caledonia Night Sky Company is now casting for their new feature film entitled
“THE WAVES”

Production Type: Feature Film (DePaul graduate thesis)
Country/State: USA Illinois
Town or Area: Northwestern Chicago Suburbs and Rockford, IL area
Start Date: August 18th, 2009
Duration of job: 3.5 weeks for principals, 2-5 days for supporting
Payment: STUDENT SAG contract (in progress)
Responses: Email: casting@caledonianightsky.ocm
Artist Contracts: SAG
Short synopsis: Director: Jerry LaBuy.
This film is a drama with a science fiction element. When the grief stricken widower Thomas meets the mysterious and beautiful Eve by chance, he learns there are no accidents.

Character Breakdowns:

Thomas
Male / 25-35 Years / Caucasian
Thomas is a 30 year-old former city cop who lives on a rundown Midwestern farm. He is still suffering from the loss of his wife who is from the area. He wants to move on and feels the only way is to leave the farm and small town behind. But Thomas is forced to stay a while longer when he suddenly encounters a mysterious and hurt woman named Eve.

Eve
Female / 20-30 Years / Any Ethnicity
Eve is a sharp woman with an outgoing personality. She’s a pilot from the future who has been accidentally stranded in the present. As a result, she suffers a memory loss side-effect. Her return home is uncertain.

Phil Simonson
Male / 45-60 Years / Caucasian
Bill Simonson is an intimidating figure who owns a grain business. His strict ways already cost him a relationship with his son Carter, now Simonson is trying to salvage his relationship with his son-in-law Thomas. However, Simonson is suspicious of Thomas’s sudden relationship with Eve.

Carter
Male / 30-40 Years/ Caucasian
Simonson’s son. Carter is a weasily guy who moved away from home and became a cop in the city where he once befriended Thomas. Now he is a criminal on the run and no one is sure where or when he’ll turn up. One thing everyone is sure of — Carter is up to no good.

Ben
Male / 14-18 Years/ Caucasian
Carter’s estranged son, Bill Simonson’s grandson and Thomas’s nephew. Ben is a bright but timid kid who has never really met his father. He is under the guardianship of Bill, who pushes him to follow in the family grain business. Ben does so to be a good grandson but aspires for something much, much more.

Janice
Female / 20-26 Years/ Any Ethnicity
Janice is new to the town and waiting tables at the local diner. She has a tendency to read people pretty well and is not afraid to let them know what she’s thinking.

Nancy
Female / 45-55 Years/ Caucasian
Bill Simonson’s wife and Ben’s grandmother. The steady rock for all of them during the events that happen over the course of the film.

If you’d like to be considered forward your headshot/resume to:

casting@caledonianightsky.com

or

The Caledonia Night Sky Co.
CASTING
P.O. Box 7
Caledonia, IL
61011

We will be calling for auditions in late May/early June and should have our decisions by the end of June/early July.

We start filming August 18th!!

Casting and Locations

Published on April 9, 2009 in Collinsville, Festivals and Thesis. Closed

In the biggest item of the week we have some really good news on the casting front. More later when all the details are worked out.

Round 3 of location scouting and knocking on some doors of places I’m interested in Friday. I’m looking at a few areas for the road scenes, houses, and other grainery locations. I’ll post some pics as they become locked in.



On a little bit of a “good and bad news” note, we made a festival short list with COLLINSVILLE for a national film fest but ultimately we didn’t get in. I found out Tuesday. It was a military film fest that I did really want to get into, but I guess it wasn’t meant to be. I did get a nice e-mail (besides the standard rejection letter) from the head of selections saying how much she liked the film (with specific mention of scenes and the story/direction/design) and how close we came, but that almost made it sting a bit more. We’re hoping for better luck this summer and fall. Many more fests then. Best of luck to the fest and those who did get in however, as you can’t live a happy life holding grudges.

We are planning on screening the film in mid-June at an open screening in Milwaukee. It’s called FIRESTARTER FILMS and they have a bi-monthly film “open mic” night (which is a great idea in general.) They would like us to screen it there and we would love to do that. It will be the first screening with an audience made up of people we mostly do not know. So that could be interesting. We also really hope to clean-up on the sound before that event. We never had a first rate shot at that yet…

Here’s a link to there event/venue site:
Firestarter Films at The Alchemist Theatre

I’ll post more info on it as we get closer.

One other item, we’re going to redo the look of this journal to bring it more into the look of the site. We currently edit and host on blogger which doesn’t allow for much customizing. My friend Josh said he could bring it all into our site so that it’s an actual connected page. That way the navigation bar from the main page will be on here so you can go back and forth easier. And as we make more films we’ll then have connected and uniform pages for them which will then go to any external sites.

Trust me, it will look great.