I started writing my short thriller Foreclosed last May. It's a story of love, loss, and revenge by a man who lost both his wife to cancer and his house to foreclosure.As I always tell film festival audiences, I had just bought a small house - my first real estate - in Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains. It wasn't a foreclosure, but I looked at many of them before I bought. I was always struck by the sadness of them - the lives interrupted, the families displaced.
We shot Foreclosed in July and August of 2009. The final editing - with music and sound effects - wasn't finished until April of this year. As our self-imposed December deadline slipped away, I found myself wondering if the movie would be dated by the time anyone had a chance to see it. Would the housing market be booming again? Would festival programmers wonder what they could do with such a movie?
We're having a terrific festival run, with screenings this coming weekend in Flint, MI followed by Philadelphia the following weekend, and Tennessee right after that.
As glad as I am that people like the movie - and I really am proud of it - I find myself wishing it were just a bit less timely.
http://www.foreclosedthemovie.us/
Ironically, it's more timely than ever, esp. with the revelations that many of the foreclosures were slipshod, rammed through, and possibly illegal. Sick.
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