Wired.com review

I checked Nerdcore For Life’s myspace page today and found a comment from one of the groups that appear in the documentary, The Krondor Krew:

“Wired.com top story on Google feeds today, and Wired's front page. Very nice sir.”

What does that mean?  It means that Wired.com ran an amazing review of the film today.  I had seen the article this morning but I didn’t know about the google feed thing.  I actually subscribe to the Wired feed so I checked out google and saw this -------->

For an hyper-low budget indie documentary, we get a silly amount of press.  Every time I get interviewed or see the name of our film printed in a newspaper (see previous blog post) I’m just absolutely amazed.  As great as all the other articles and stuff are though, this one is really special.  I mean look at this.  This is an image from the front page of wired.com:

There, in the middle of the page, surrounded by stories about Star Wars and Hackers and NASA and comicon and F-ing STANLEY KUBRICK, is our film…just sitting there like it belongs.  We’re even under listed under “Hollywood” stories, presumably because they don’t have a section of the website that covers films that were produced in the south suburbs of Chicago.

The piece was written by a really great, super geek-friendly writer who was good enough to come out to the San Francisco screening.  Originally I was going to send her a DVD to check out but I’m really glad she got to see the film with an audience…especially the Frozen Film fest Audience since those people were nerds-to-the-core and seemed to really love the film.  The reporter even brought a Wired photographer and his cool/ghostly shots appear throughout he piece.  Here’s the big, eerie pic that ran at the top of the article.  Its of me and Doc Pop as we opened up Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase at the Double Dutch show.

So the article is great but I feel a little weird about the whole thing.  I didn’t realize my interview was going to be such a large part of it and some of what I said is kind of embarrassing.  I’ve had to deal with a few “haters” while working on and promoting the film.  Not everyone in the Nerdcore scene supports the film.  Some people actually go out of their way to spread weird rumors about it take public shots at it.  The consolation is that none of these people have actually sat down and watched the movie and all they can do is guess about its content.   But it seems like whenever something good happens to the project, the same handful of people feel the need to pop up and throw rocks at us.  The Frozen Film Fest screening was kinda, sorta a big deal and consequently the haters out there weren’t happy about that.  For a while it looked like two of them were even going to try and crash the San Francisco after-party but the Double Dutch is a hater-free zone and in the end they decided it would be best to stay away.  Point is, these things were on my mind when I did my interview and I used the opportunity to vent a little.  I never thought that stuff would actually make it into the article.  But now that I think about it, I'm kind of glad it did.  It just goes to show that being a filmmaker ain't all fun and film fests.  Besides, if you're a documentary filmmaker and you make a movie that no one has a problem with, it's probably a pretty boring movie and definitly not worth its weight in iPhones.

Full review is here:  http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/07/documentary-ner.html