In Winnipeg (temporarily)

I'm in Winnipeg all weekend for a series of intensive story meetings with Bevan (director) and Frank (producer) of 40 Below Films. We're deconstructing Effective Immediately, a low-budget feature project we've had in development for the last eighteen months, (interrupted by a brief hiatus to shoot and edit On a Sunday, a short film which we have just started to submit to festivals).

With an infusion of development funding from Manitoba Film & Sound, this rewrite stage also reunites me with a friend and colleague from my Vancouver Film School days, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, who has ignored all conventional wisdom and agreed to work with us by offering his superior story-editing skills for a pittance.