All is Well
These are strange days, strange days indeed.
We are hearing the stories of struggle from our friends and colleagues. Like most of you, we are already hearing tales of loved ones succumbing to the virus. We hear the fear in the voices of our friends who are doctors and nurses and first responders, even as they push those fears aside to do their jobs. We are hearing from our friends who wait tables, bartend, and work in hotels. Friends who own establishments that provide the stages for our favorite musicians. And we are hearing from everyone in our film community.
There are tough times ahead. Things are going to get a little skinny for most of us. But we truly believe that if we put our minds to it, we can come out on the other side of this thing stronger than before.
The inspiration for our name came from the histories of the night watch. Whether from a ship’s crow’s nest, or a guard post, or a street corner, the crier’s job was to let everyone know, that despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, all is well.
We are spending our time doing what we do best. We are creating. We are writing stories and looking at new ways to bring them to life. We are looking at all the ways we can continue to work (and put you to work) in a way that is safe and sound. There are going to be plenty of stories to tell on the other side of this and we want to tell them with you.
Our current situation is definitely different, but our job is not.
We’re first and foremost writers. Our projects always start with some sort of constraint, physical, budgetary, or otherwise. It’s our job to find creative ways to leverage limitations as story beats. We’re equipped to handle these new challenges and are already finding ways to enter back into production in safe and creative ways. And that means finding stories and concepts that follow the new rules of COVID. (Feel free to ask us about our plan.)
We started working on this new demo reel back in January. (Seems like a lifetime ago.) Our first thought was that this is a strange time to put it out in the world. But when we dusted it off to finish it up this week, it made us smile.
We’re hoping it’ll make you smile too.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive… An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else can tell, what it is like to be alive”
-James Baldwin