We (me, the writer/producer, Ed Joyce, the director, and Khoren Mirzakhanian, the editor) went to the desert last Sunday to do the location scouting. It's very noir out there. Stephen Mooser, the acclaimed children's book author, has graciously allowed us to shoot at his guest house in Joshua Tree and it's going to be perfect. Originally in the script I written the sex/sacrifice/black magic scene to drop in a basement. No basements in the high desert, but there is a natural cave in the hills next to the guest house which will be even cooler!
We then met with Kimberly Nichols, who's this really cool artist/writer who lives in Palm Desert. She's interested in helping us secure some more locations and organizing the community to get involved. More exciting is that she's agreed to play Katie, the psychic.
At this point we're still on track for the end of July/first week of August shoot. I'll go out again in a couple weeks to nail down the rest of the locations and deal with other logistical issues. The weekend of the 17th we'll do a podcast of the novella and, if it all comes together, throw a party to celebrate the completion of last MONGREL COLLECTIVE movie (DIRTY RED HANDS) and to shoot the rave scenes of SPIRITEUR. I'll keep you informed on this blog what's happening with that party and if you come to it you'll BE in SPIRITEUR. Won't that be fun!
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