Two Weeks To Go

Barely a smidge over 2 weeks from tomorrow is September 15th. Why is this date important, you ask? It is the date that the schedule of films to be shown at the Mill Valley Film Festival will be announced.

This may or may not be beneficial to Thomas Productions, but it certainly can be! The MVFF has the chance of being the first "adult-level" film festival one of our projects has ever placed in. We have earned status with the National Children's Film Festival before, but that obviously was during the K-12 era.

Whether or not the hope rings true, the festival still permitted another entry into IMDb.com, and also initiated contact with Michael Neverisky for music rights. This festival is noncompetitive, so if At the Core shows up anywhere in the schedule, then it's worth a yipee!

Did the Trick

Just as the June 23rd News Blog entry suggested, giving Composer Michael Neverisky a Special Thanks credit for At the Core on IMDb.com was successful, as he now has his own individual page to represent himself there. Yay!

Now, I'm trying to link that page to his name on the movie's soundtrack listing, but as with this Special Thanks project, if I give it some patience, I will hopefully get my wish.

Soundtrack Listed

'Tis official: now listed at the IMDb page for At the Core are the soundtrack credits for Michael Neverisky!

His credits appear as such:

• "Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine"
  Arranged & Performed by Michael Neverisky
  Courtesy of Michael Neverisky
  

What I still haven't been successful yet at for the creation of this new IMDb credit is actually making an individual page representing Mr. Neverisky. I guess a "mere" soundtrack listing alone won't do it... Perhaps giving him an additional Special Thanks credit might do the trick.

Grasshopper Approval

As an unexpected charm that happen to reach Thomas Productions yesterday, I was able to receive music rights for the song I was hoping to use in At the Core: more specifically, Michael Neverisky's instrumental performance of "Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine."

I was considering contacting him through an email address, but gosh darnit, that site would not load on my machine at that moment (but it would again later!). So, I found him on YouTube, and was able send him a message that way. That he responded so quickly and so kindly just about made my day! That particular song is not performed on YouTube by him, but here's another one that's at least as good.

Anyhow, this news is GREAT because it means the intentional, excellent piece can play in Mill Valley instead of my subpar temp track. Yay!