'Regular Paintings' on Kickstarter - tip your bartender well

Sit down, have a drink. We've got a story for you.

"Regular Paintings" is our new short film and we need your help to make it happen! It's the story of a directionless guy whose midlife crisis never showed up because he never learned to think ahead. He takes a job working the late shift at a rickety old bar down the street where the paint is peeling and the dust is gathering on the bottles and staff alike. It's a good gig... until closing time when the lights start flickering and the juke acts up and some very strange characters stop by for drinks even though the doors are locked.

It's a film for and about the night owls and outcasts, or anybody whose ever felt like they didn't fit in.

Sound like your kind of cocktail? Then head on over to our Kickstarter and leave us a big tip. We promise you won't be disappointed.


Via Francart & Francart Pictures

Don't forget "Meet Your Maker" is on TV tonight!

What is better than starting your Saturday night with a cheesy dose of science fiction?
Tune your Motherbox to WQED Pittsburgh tonight at 10pm. "Meet Your Maker" is playing on Filmmakers Corner!

Meet Your Maker on your TV!

That's right, Earth creatures! "Meet Your Maker" is playing on WQED at 10pm on April 19th as part of Filmmakers Corner! Don't miss it.

'Regular Paintings' - a new short film coming soon-ish

Fellow humanoids! We Francarts are excited to announce that we're embarking on another wallet-testing adventure in the film business. Our next short film, "Regular Paintings" is in the works. It stars some familiar faces and some fresh ones as well. We're raising money for the project now, and we're planning to be in production in July.

"Regular Paintings" is a supernatural short concerning a contentedly directionless bartender who must choose between the pressures of the rat race or the warm boozy embrace of the eternal regulars that haunt his bar.

More about this project in the weeks and months to come at yet another website: francartsquared.com, our permanent internet home for all things Frilmmaking (Francart + filmmaking = Frilmmaking. Nyuk nyuk nyuk).

Meanwhile, "Meet Your Maker" is still in the hands of capricious festival programmers. We'll be getting word about more acceptances/rejections in the spring and summer. Screenings will begin in earnest late in the summer. Keep you antennae crossed for luck.

Stay tuned.

Hot off the presses

Motherbox's scan of the internet confirms that Anthony over at Geek Pittsburgh wrote a sweet review of our film!

Boston Sci-Fi makes the right choice

Despite some technical problems, we were voted in to the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival! "Meet Your Maker" screens on Sunday as part of a short film sidebar at the annual 'Thon. Very few details at this point, as has been the pattern. But we're in!

Good News/Bad News

The logo of the festival whose awards we will sweep.

Fellow Earthlings, "Meet Your Maker" is part of an online competition to get into the 39th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival! Details on how you can help vote us to victory coming later today (we hope).

Elsewhere on the home planet, The Chicago Underground Film Festival named us winners of the "Not Accepted" prize. No screening necessary. This is our first festival rejection, and our first step to indie credibility.

A picture of the worst decision CUFF ever made, saved for posterity.