minor disaster

This coming Sunday, we’re screening I Love Your Work at the Tribeca Grand for a New York filmmakers group. The Grand’s screening room is only set up to use DVDs, a format to which we’ve yet to convert the film. We have copies on analog film, as a High Definition D-5 master, on VHS and on DigiBeta. Or, rather, had the film on DigiBeta; now, nobody seems to know exactly where the tape of the film in that format is. Which is problematic, as it’s the only one from which we can easily burn a DVD. As a result, my colleagues, our film lab, and our sales rep are all running around like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to track down the DigiBeta in time to cut the DVD for Sunday’s showing. I’m trying to coordinate it all from Denver by cell, silently chanting my Cyan mantra: filmmaking is fun, filmaking is fun…

Update: DigiBeta has been found. Now I just need to find a way to get it DVD-ified overnight.

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