Pepsi Joins the Journey plus TOP UPDATES FROM THE WEEK!

Hello from beautiful Alpena, Michigan. This past week has been a whirlwind as our pre-production team landed and got immediately to business. I want to welcome our new readers from China, Canada, Brazil and of course the USA.

This is another of my Saturday updates that will happen during our film shoot with Saturday being the day off. For a producer there is no real day off but that it is a bit more slow paced. I’m going to do a top updates in the world of CDI films.

1. KNIGHT CHILLS sold through its 1000 piece special slip cover Blu Ray in a week. I have yet to see it all myself even though I hear my copy is sitting at home on my desk. Here is the link to the standard edition still available- https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/knight-chills
2. THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ – animated family film can be seen free with ads here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm3MvQt5xoo
3. Tonight SILENT NIGHT IN ALGONA will be represented at the Red Letter Awards outside Nashville, TN. Our own Donna Kitzinger will be there to represent CDI, the film and accept should we win any of the nominated categories. We are up against some huge budgets and very talented artists so just happy to be recognized. Watch the FB page for updates!
4. Harsens Island Revenge (HIR) starts rolling cameras in the morning. Our prep team has been hard at work and that is how we get all the value we do on the screen. No replacement for hard work either you do it or you don’t.
5. HIR has many great developments such great location owners. Such great vehicles being rounded up by our transportation Captain Dane Deford. Sets being built like a moonshine still site by our art team of GW Burns and Bart Ketner. Just a great positive energy as we move towards our launch. Actors are now landing and the secondary crew members will be moving in.

WRAP UP: We’re getting such great help and collaboration from the people and city of Alpena. We also have a slew of great sponsors coming on board including Pepsi. They are really stepping up hard making this one of our most supplied projects for craft service. Protein bars, Muscle Milk, Tea, Energy drinks, sparkling vitamin water and the list goes on and on. We are very excited to have Pepsi partnering with CDI.

I’m going to wrap this up here and get back at some activities. I’ll be going in front of the camera first thing in the morning. But I can say after months of creating I’m ready to let Axel loose. I want to thank all of you who followed along on the prepping of this journey. You’ll enjoy the FB daily updates and I’ll be back next Saturday to report on week one of shooting.

(Director Carl Weyant & I on location scout)

Here we go!

Coffee Cheers!

DJ

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