I’ve not been dedicated in keeping this blog up to date.  Not because I’ve particularly been lazy, but mainly because I’ve been so busy, first with pre-production, then with filming and then with returning everything and finally with getting things back on an even keel.  Today or I should say yesterday, seeing as it’s 1am; I hit another milestone.  YAY.  I handed over the precious cargo that is my raw footage, to the editor.  OMG, on one level I feel like a surrogate mother who has carried and nurtured a baby for nine months only to hand the child over to another mother once it has entered this world.

Trying to find a suitable editor was a tricky process, I met five wonderful candidates who were willing to work on A Mother’s Journey for very little pay and I really couldn’t choose between them.  Rather than flip a coin, it actually came down to who lived the closest to my neck of the woods.  I figured I’d cycle there to start my temporary fitness regime.

So now it’s a case of wait and see what the first cut is going to be and I’m super excited to see what shape the film is going to take.  Next step is going to be running another crowdfunding campaign, the last one bombed abysmally, so I’m not sure this will be any good.  I’ve done the industry rounds like the other thousands of filmmakers chasing grants, but haven’t managed to get my project onto their radar.  But I shall keep plugging away, who knows, maybe one day I’ll be standing on a podium somewhere, accepting an award and extolling the virtues of persistence, because that is what it takes to make it in this industry.  One has to keep on banging on doors or building ones own doors, either way, ya gotta grow thick skin and turn the lows into highs.