The First Draft

I've finally completed the 97-paged first draft of This American Town. From this point, I begin chapter two in the making of this feature. At the moment, the script is in the hands of people whose opinions I value, and eventually we'll sit down for an afternoon to thoroughly talk it over. This is when collaboration kicks in and you get to watch your work get destroyed, but for good reason. If you're a filmmaker and you can't allow yourself to let go of your work and let it become a collaborative project, then there's really no point in doing what you're doing.