"BOOGEY BOOGEY BOOGEY"

The story of “DOWN WITH THE BOOGEY” is a very odd and complicated one.

In the world of indie film, I’ve always found, that to have a successful-no-budget indie one you should hit these certain “marks”

1. Principal Filming Completed. All your script pages and all of your actions and talking heads and whatever you were filming, wrapped.
2. Post production. This is where so many indies fall apart, the hard part of editing, and I’m guilty of this myself, is seeing “mistakes”, things you missed or didn’t get quite right, the mistakes will swim in your head, they’ll haunt you. I imagine, many a film has died at this stage. I’ve found, for me, when you’re in this phase, and it’s not going so great, go home, work it all out, walk the dog (if no dog available, maybe borrow one) sleep on it (your thoughts not the dog), normally, there’s an answer in your head waiting for you when you wake up.
3. Once your film is edited to your satisfaction (easier said than done, I’ve watched my stuff in theaters wishing I had an extra take or two of certain parts) then you get it out there, on the road at festivals, screenings, or get it to distributors. Pray hope everyone loves it. Never believe the filmmakers who say they don’t care what audiences think. We’re in the storytelling business. When you tell your story, you want it received, for me it’s my favorite part.
4. If a distributor bites…CONGRATS! You’ve won this level!

Or did you win? Because BOOGEY did ALL OF THIS, and it won!

3 times.

Wow what?

See? Odd. Complicated.

“DOWN WITH THE BOOGEY” first and foremost started in the brilliant, hilarious, warped and twisted mind of Jack Knapp. He writes a script I’d been in love with since I got to page 13 of it, he directed a beautiful and original film with this incredible cast of talents, from all over, assembles a fun little film, we threw some test screenings, we get out to LA in front of an academy award winning production company who’ll release this and BOOM, done. By the time credits rolled on BOOGEY, it had a wonderful little deal. Seemed easy. TOO EASY.

Of course, like anything, things change, personnel changes with the company, and we lose a HUGE fan and absolute champ named Ari Silber. Ari was an ally, a pro and just an all around good guy. He’s since gotten involved in charity work and if he brings them the same levels of effort and care he brought to Boogey, there are some charities are likely booming from his participation. From there, the new personnel was still on board for Boogey, and things were all speed ahead….until the night I left for Sundance in 2012, the company went belly up, everything fell apart. Not even a call. Weird right? No worries, because a 2nd distributor was in almost immediately, then that deal hit a snag, and that’s when a 3rd flew in, promised the world to our fearless director Jack Knapp. Unfortunately when the world is promised to you, it’s easy to forget that sometimes the world can be a screwy place.

So now what? Jack said it plain and simple “let’s just give it away”

WHOA WHAT. Yep. The important thing here, and it’s what we all set out to do, is to make a really good and original film. Mission accomplished, I’ve personally been dying to share this thing as soon as it wrapped. Jack Knapp is one of those storytellers, if you follow him online or on twitter, he’s just a naturally great storyteller. He also happens to have a great and unique vision in the film. If Jack was doing a film adaptation of the phone book, I’d campaign, audition, beg, stalk just to get cast in the role of “LAST NAMES THAT START WITH THE LETTER O”.

Not only is “DOWN WITH THE BOOGEY” coming out. It’s coming out for FREE. Please watch it, love, it, see this little film we’re all so proud of. Not only is it coming out for free, it’s coming out for free TOMORROW.

So there it is. 3 distributors, 4,098,871,246 cast members a couple of years in development, and here we are….hours away from finally being able to share it with you. I’m pretty excited to share in this story, the same way I was excited to share this story when I got to page 13 of the script many moons ago.

Details will be announced very shortly and I’ll be sure and post any links and all info right here on this space!

So please, get your favorite snuggle buddy, a few snacks, get comfy and get ready for BOOGEY to enter your life.

Take care and be good,
Tim