![]() So now the timing seems just perfect for us to be here - a wonderful script, an eager and talented creative team, and the industry is cheering about how things seem to be turning a corner. Community at work (I will come back to this). At that point, I called a friend who has worked with Derrick, and she read the script and kindly passed it to him, and thus, a wonderful connection was made. So it wasn’t until the following year that we finished incorporating all the feedback from our time in Amsterdam. Our meetings then were very productive, but our timing was off since we were just beginning a new rewrite of the script at Binger. And before you ask, you barely have time to do much of anything besides work, let alone consider blazing your days away in a coffee shop, sampling the local goods.Īnyway, we had literally packed up our entire lives to move to Amsterdam and had only been there for a week when it was time to fly back to New York for Independent Film Week (lucky I had been saving my frequent flyer miles). It is literally a six-month intensive for screenwriters and creative producers, where you go through a full rewrite of your project if you’re a writer, or you work with your screenwriter by learning the art of script editing if you’re a creative producer. The Binger is probably one of the better-kept secrets among the American film industry, although it’s certainly known to the Sundance Institute, with whom they have a relationship, as well as Cinemart and the Rotterdam Film Festival, among other outstanding organizations. It was a crazy time, because we had also just learned we were invited to live in Amsterdam (the one in Europe, not the one upstate in the Adirondacks) for six months to attend the Binger Filmlab ( and develop the script there. In 2008, we had the great fortune to be selected for the Emerging Narrative section of Independent Film Week with an earlier draft of the script. The Swerve is a project that Dean and I have been developing for a couple of years. That was quite a shock, albeit a thrilling one, and we both took it as a wonderful sign for what’s to come this week at No Borders. When we got the e-mail in mid-July that we had been selected, it was the funniest thing, because that day, Dean turned to me at one point and said, “What’s going on with IFP - did you hear anything about No Borders yet?” and I literally clicked over to my e-mail as the message appeared in the box. It’s a psychological thriller about a woman whose life spirals out of control when she’s bitten by a mouse. The script was written and will be directed by Dean Kapsalis, and I’m producing along with veteran indie producer Derrick Tseng. I am participating in No Borders this year with a narrative feature called The Swerve. Thanks to Scott and the folks at IFP for having me. ![]() My name is Tommy Minnix, and I am really delighted to be guest blogging for Independent Film Week this year. IFP, IFP Independent Film Week, The Swerve, Tommy Minnix
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