It is a shameful, shameful thing that I haven’t written about it. And that shame is driving me to action. Weather Girl is a movie I shot going on almost a year and a half ago. The budget was small so I assumed that it would just be a really good experience that would give me the chance to work with some great people and then hopefully have a DVD to sit on my shelf with a few other movies that would suffer the same fate the befalls most truly independent films. Cut to now – Weather Girl premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, won best film at the Aspen Film Festival, and has played really well in a handful of other festivals. A couple of weeks ago we had three screenings at the Los Angeles Film Festival and they were all sold out. The film has already secured international distribution, a domestic DVD wide release, a cable television run on Lifetime (in October i think), and a limited city theatrical release starting this weekend. Not to mention the trailer is on Apple’s trailer page – which for me is a major victory. Here in Los Angeles it is playing at the Sunset 5 theatre and you would have look at local listings to see if it is coming to a theatre in your town. I think the real success of this thing, beyond the incredible talent of Blayne Weaver, Tricia O’Kelley, Ryan Devlin, Mark Harmon, Kaitlin Olson, Jane Lynch, and Jon Cryer – is the fact that it is a romantic comedy in which the players are real people. I think people are tired of broad strokes in the romantic comedy genre. I wish I could say I realized this while we were shooting it but  . . . nevermind . . .  yeah i knew the whole time . . .

Here is the link for the trailer for it and make sure you check it out if you come across in theaters, on your television, or in a video store (before they all succumb to the crushing weight of NetFlix).

Enjoy.

And excuse my hair in this entire film. We were on bad terms but we have since made up and come to terms with our differences. Its all about compromise.

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