{"id":116,"date":"2009-12-22T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/top-ten-months-of-2009\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:59:35","slug":"top-ten-months-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/top-ten-months-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Months of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

In no particular<\/em> order of importance:<\/p>\n

10: January<\/strong> – The year ahead looks hopeful. Just waiting around for all the film festivals to start beating down Refrain<\/em>‘<\/a>s door. Even developing a feature project with a couple producers.<\/p>\n

9: February<\/strong> – Got invited to be a guest speaker at a local college, that was cool. Started MTLR.ca<\/a>. Building new things, recognition for old ones, not bad at all.<\/p>\n

8: March<\/strong> – Refrain<\/em> not the festival darling I was hoping for. Feature project that I was developing crumbles. Gun in my mouth but no money left for bullets. Shot short film Straightforward<\/em><\/a> instead of myself. Gotta keep the juices flowing.<\/p>\n

7: April<\/strong> – Refrain<\/em> accepted into World Film Fest. Finger off the trigger.<\/p>\n

6: July<\/strong> – After a couple months buried in desk work, finally started launching all the amazing Refrain<\/em><\/a> and Side Project<\/em><\/a> music. Also began work on Lion & Gazelle<\/em> and met producer.<\/p>\n

5: August<\/strong> – Press, press, press. Promoting Refrain<\/em> like a carnival hustler and finally our disastrous festival screenings. Disastrous for technical reasons despite which the audiences loved it. Vindication.<\/p>\n

4: September<\/strong> – Rest and – oddly enough – job offers for unrelated work.<\/p>\n

3: October<\/strong> – Producer wants to apply for development funding for Lion & Gazelle<\/em>. I’ve been here before so, whatever… Prepping Refrain<\/em> for DVD\/VOD distribution. But most important, it’s mushroom season.<\/p>\n

2: November<\/strong> – Holy crap we got into the Telefilm<\/a> program. Also shot a music video.<\/p>\n

1: December<\/strong> – Telefilm workshop nearly kills my poor delicate, introverted self but it’s great to be working on a new movie. Time to eat sugar and fat and catch up on sleep. Next year’s going to be doozy.<\/p>\n

Happy holidays everyone. Let’s each make something cool in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A personal recounting of the year’s ups and downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}