rottinghaus: apartmovie: “Don’t you ever think...

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apartmovie:

“Don’t you ever think that if you have guilt, you deserve it?” - Emily

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this, but the film I wrote and directed, APART, comes out 3/9/12 on on demand and in select theaters.

I can confirm now that the weekend of 3/9/12, we are playing at The Quad Cinema in NYC and the Sundance Cinemas in Houston. I can say that the proceeds from (at least) the Houston screening are being donated to the RIchmond & Rosenburg school systems where we shot a lot of the film. In addition to that, a few of the stars of the film will be at select Houston screenings and the director (me) will most likely be in NYC for the opening.

Thankfully, Mike Waskom has put together a kind of de factor Facebook event page for the NYC screenings (click here). I’m not sure if just anyone can click on that page, but it’s worth a shot! And thank you Mike for doing that.

I’m really not sure what else to say and how I’m going to fill these next coupla weeks with prattling on. I would really, really like it if we sold out these screenings. I know how it feels to look in a theater that isn’t full — it sucks. And, frankly, I’m not in this to make money (point of fact — I won’t). I’m in this to make another film. I would really love the opportunity to get reactions from the audience, to talk about things over, say, a beer or some other drink. It’d be great. And we’re coming to other cities in the weekends following 3/9 — I know we’ll be in San Francisco, Dallas, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Denver. We’re looking at other cities as well. I don’t know which of those I’ll make it to (I’d say SF is a safe bet).

Really — I want to see how this works. Film distribution is a rapidly changing landscape and I’m just trying to gain some footing and figure it out. I’m open to discussion on what has come before this moment and what will come after. I apologize for the random nature of this post, but I’ve had two long days and posting fresh words about APART is more or less an impossibility at this point.

More than anything else, I want this film to find an audience. There will be those out there that don’t like it, sure. I will suck it up and deal with that because I have to. Not everyone is going to love everything you make. I’ve learned that already. But I do feel that the film deserves to be seen. if I didn’t, I would have dumped it with as little fanfare as possible and I’d be living on my grandmother’s farm. But there is merit to this li’l guy and I hope it doesn’t get lodged firmly in the dustbin of history. It’s almost here, you guys. Watch it. Let’s have a fucking discussion.