"Santa and Sons & Daughter!" Has Movie Premier at Gloria Film Festival in Utah
A mere twenty-five years in development, the movie musical “Santa and Sons & daughter!” will have its world premier at the Gloria Film Festival in Utah. The movie will be shown at 12 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005.
(PRWEB) August 11, 2005 -- A mere twenty-five years in development, the movie
musical, “Santa and Sons & daughter!,” will have its world premier at the
Gloria Film Festival in Utah. The movie will be shown at 12 p.m. on Saturday,
Aug. 13, 2005.
Nine new songs are part of this live-action family
musical movie introducing Santa's beautiful wife, Sara; his two sons, Nicholas
and Klaus; and spunky daughter, Sandy who flies a talking anti-gravity sleigh.
She falls for Zwerkin, the inventor of a Teleportation Device that helps Santa
get into houses without chimneys. Unfortunately, bad-guy Snavely steals the
Teleporter, puts on his black Santa-suit and beams up to confront Santa at his
North Pole Estate.
For movie clips, songs and more - visit www.santaandsons.com
“It is the realization of a
dream,” says Robert Battaile, Director and Co-writer “that was only made
possible by the digital revolution which allowed us to be able to afford to make
this movie.” (That, and a deferred portion to the cast and crew in exchange for
a nice piece of the pie, as well it should be.)
Battaile is referring to
the JVC mini-dv broadcast quality cameras, the Apple G5 and Final Cut Pro
editing.
“I've spent the last seven months sitting at the computer
watching seventy hours of raw footage turn into an entertaining Christmas
present for the world. Editing is a difficult and tiring job, but it's where the
magic really starts to sing.”
The program was shot in Napa Valley in 2004
by Calexas, the family video and audio production and editing company started in
2001. (www.calexas.com)
Post production was aided by
Battaile's son, Silvin (also the Director of Photography) helping with the final
editing; and daughter Bethany who created the computer animation for Blaise,
Sandy Claus' talking anti-gravity Sleigh which was created in Maya software.
Zwerkin's kids in the movie are named Silvin and Bethany. Blaise is named after
the Director's other daughter.
“Blaise is studying accounting. I hope we
can keep her busy when the show finally hits the public marketplace in November
and December.”
Here again, the digital revolution is having a tremendous
impact.
“I used to think about a time when the artist could reach the
audience directly, without having to go through the bottlenecks of finding a
giant company to distribute a physical product. Thanks to the internet, we
expect our DVD, audio CD and songs to be on several e-tailer, audio and video
download sites this Christmas, and in future years. The public and retailers can
purchase them at our website as well.”
Battaile is proud of his
evergreen kid product, “Christmas comes every year and children especially need
good stories and music. It's a fun show. The acting is outstanding.” Tony Grisey
and Michael Lucas (a producer with Calexas) also helped with the compositing and
nearly endless greenscreens at the North Pole.
The Gloria Film Festival
has a focus of family features and positive programming. Their website (www.gloriafilmfest.org) touts their mission to be “a showcase
of films that stir the soul, heal the heart, & enrich the world”. The
festival runs Aug. 9-13.
The Gloria International Film Festival has
announced that a portion of the ticket sale proceeds for this year's event will
go to The Christmas Box House, an organization which helps provide services for
abused and neglected children who have been removed from their family
environment. (www.thechristmasboxhouse.org)
A wonderful
coincidence.
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