Great news.

Ok, ok, so it's been ages. But I've been busy for good reason. Best to let the professionals do the talking:

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We're officially in.

Now the scary thing is that the real hard work is ahead of us, which is actually making the damn film. But I'm comforted by the fact that the crew we're assembling are the very best at what they do. Once everything is finalized, I'll give everyone a rundown on who's working on the picture.

Nehst (pronounced Next) Studios is a very interesting company that's trying to really democratize the way films are made. The founder, Larry Meistrich, is an independent film legend, an Oscar winner, and overall one of the coolest guys around. He started Nehst with the mindset that there are a lot of great independent filmmakers who simply don't have the access to the machine of film production. So Larry and his company undertook a valiant effort, they traveled across the country and took pitches from thousands of people, all who registered for the pitch through the Nehst website.

It's a novel concept, and one that can be easily dismissed because of its format, and because it is so incredibly open. But Meistrich and his team actually sat and listened to every single registered pitch, and that, to me, is simply incredible. When we met in Toronto last year, I asked him how it was coming along, and he said there were a LOT of bad projects, but there were also a fair share of really good ones, and a handful of really exceptional ones. What emerged from his arduous, year-long process was the greenlighting of four television series and six feature films, of which "The Killing Moon" was one.

But don't think that just because of it's format that Nehst is a lottery ticket kind of affair. It's still pitching to a studio that has the same exacting standards and requirements as any other film studio. But the difference here is access. We were given a shot, we prepared the hell out of it, and we pitched to Larry just like we would pitch to a DreamWorks or Lionsgate. And it worked. We were in the 1% that got through. And it wasn't because we were drawn from a hat, it was because we had a damn good project that we believed in, and someone shared in that belief and confidence.

I love being a part of this, because I think this is how films should be made. What Nehst is doing is financing films on their professional merit, and not on nepotism or secret handshakes. It's a novel way of doing things, and a true democratization of the industry. I plan on working my ass off for this film and for Nehst, so that we can demonstrate that this is indeed a viable business model.

But in the end, we got our money and distribution, we get to make the film, and we have an opportunity to show the world what we're really made of. I haven't been this excited in a long, long time. It's long overdue.