One Too Many Mornings - a new comedy.

I never thought we would get here. Honestly. These last two weeks have been a pain in my ass. In a good way.

I work at a YMCA. I am a sports director, and our winter season is starting up the same weekend Sundance begins. I’ve been putting youth football, soccer, and basketball teams together for over 400 kids.

I also work making One Too Many Mornings. So as I’m doing my real job, I’ve got to stay as available as possible so that Anthony and Mike can keep me updated with all the different moving parts that are involved with finishing up the movie.

The movie, as you know, is low budget.

If we were able to pay ourselves for making it I wouldn’t have to worry about my job. My job would be to help finish the film, make dvds, get posters, contact people about the film and all the other things we’re doing to get past the finish line. But we are low budget. So I work at a YMCA. Mike works at a record label. Anthony works for a….well Anthony has had about 10 jobs over the span of making our film and I’m not quite sure what he is doing now. But that just goes to show you, he has had to take a lot of different jobs because we’re normal, blue-collar people. Who just happened to devote a whole lot of time towards making a movie in our free time.

But these last two weeks have been really hard – it’s our big push. And I know we are in the same boat with a lot of filmmakers going to Sundance, but we’ve added to our insanity: we are self-releasing the movie. We are selling DVD’s and Downloads of our film right now, as you read this. So go buy one right now and then come back and finish reading this.

Why are we doing this? Because WE WANT YOU TO SEE IT! We want you to show it to your neighbor, your aunt, your teacher, whoever. We would prefer they all buy it, but we really just want as many people to see this film as possible.

But what I’m most proud of – we worked hard on making a REALLY GREAT DVD too. This isn’t just the movie, and a separate menu with chapters – there’s over 90 minutes of extra bonus content on there. We filmed a lot of behind the scenes stuff. We have a lot of deleted scenes. We have some of our short films on there. Bloopers. Extra comedy bits. It’s packed.

And it almost didn’t get done.

Like I said before – LOW BUDGET – we have to do everything ourselves, or with generous friends. Last week Mike got about 6 hours of sleep over the span of four days. He had to be up all night checking sound with Tucker. Finishing the DVD. Rechecking the sound. Working with Hrishikesh on graphics. Anthony was there for an all-nighter as well. As for me, I fell asleep because 400 kids at the YMCA needed me!

Mike actually called me on the last night of all of this around 8pm and said he was afraid to drive home because he didn’t want to fall asleep at the wheel. I tried to convince him that him crashing and dying would probably help our film more than he could imagine, and I tried to encourage him to drive home. But he’s smarter than me so he just hung out for awhile until he felt ready to drive.

But this is where we are at now. And finally, after two years and the past two weeks of all nighters, we have something seriously awesome to show you guys.

So check it out. Or chip in with a friend and split the DVD. We want you to see the awesome stuff we’ve done. I don’t ever brag, and I hardly ever talk about myself or what I’ve done, but I’m proud of this.

-Stephen Hale

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