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Here is the project that myself and the rest of The Last Quest have been working on for the last three months. We all love doing it and the results have been pretty awesome. Check out all the awesome local Seattle music we use for the soundtracks!

So back in the spring of 2009 The Last Quest decided to work with The Common Language Project on the International Documentary Film Challenge. This film was conceived and completed over the span of five days at the beginning of March 2009. After screening at the official Doc Challenge screenings the film was submitted to many film festivals. Here is a list of some of the festivals it was selected to play:
The Seattle International Film Festival
DC Shorts
Milwaukee Film Festival
Tacoma Film Festival
BendFilm Festival
Local Sightings

Here is the “logline” for the film:
“As newspapers across the country struggle to stay viable both culturally and fiscally, Seattle’s own Post Intelligencer is slated for closure. ‘It’s in the P-I’ tries to capture the confusion and disappointment of the people who worked the last few days of this 142 year old Seattle institution.”

I four hours I need to be up and rearing to go but here I sit posting to this blog…

For the next four days I expect to be very occupied. The Last Quest is shooting a new film called “Still Life.” I am the producer for this short so that means Brad = busy-boy.

Here is our schedule. I also posted to the other blog part of an epic production bible that I have been working on for the last week.

So yes busy-ness is mine. I will be back with more posts soon.

Recently I did an interview with Monica Guzman from the online version of the P-I. I was glad to be able to wedge in a pretty good quote and some plugs for The Last Quest and The Common Language Project. It was an all around pleasurable experience. Here are some quotes:

“That something this old and prestigious was stopping its printed publication was brutal to hear,” said director Brad Hutchinson. “We needed to do something…

“What we were trying to really capture is the sort of collective loss that a community experiences,” Hutchinson said. “(The P-I was) this sort of cultural compass for Seattle…

At 9:30 tonight I will plant my butt in SIFF cinema and watch something I helped make on a screen on which I seen the likes of Hitchcock and Kubrick films. SIFF Cinema is a great place to watch films. I am very excited. This is the going to be the first time I watch this film in the format it was shot in, HD.
This is going to be a big night for me… If you are able, please show up and represent.

-Brad

Eli Sanders at The Stranger gave us our short It’s in the P-I its first review and surprisingly it was good!

…most interestingly, an exploration of the end of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer through the words of its former staffers.

and then it continues in true Stranger fashion:

Making it all really, truly worthwhile: Love You More, a hot, hot short about young love, hasty sex, and the music of the Buzzcocks.

So SIFF and STIFF both have our films up on their respective websites. “It’s in the P-I” and “The Hot Dog Cycle” are both such different movies that fit so well for the festivals they are in. It is crazy that something we made has this life outside of us. It is now something to be marketed and watched by people who may not necessarily have any relationship to us. I am dually excited and scared by the prospect of some random person watching these things we all thought was a good idea to make months ago.

A screen grab of the webpage for our short "It's in the P-I."

A screen grab of the webpage for our short "The Hot Dog Cycle."

You can and should to both of these screenings as both these movies worth seeing on a large screen with other people around and we’ll be there!

“I’d like to invite Bradley Hutchinson’s IT’S IN THE P-I to be screened as an official selection of the 35th Seattle International Film Festival (May 21-June 11) to be shown during the Short Film Weekend (May 29-31, 2009). All of the shorts will be screened at the new state-of-the-art SIFF Cinema where all formats are brilliantly projected. SIFF is also a recognized Oscar™ nominating Festival.

The Seattle International Film Festival is the largest and most well-attended film festival in the United States with 150,000 attendees expected in 2009. SIFF screens a wide selection of the best new international features and documentaries over the 25-day festival, presenting more than 400 films from over 50 countries. With extensive local, national and international media coverage, the Festival has emerged as one of the country’s most accessible and highly publicized film events.

We would be honored to present your film in Seattle and look forward to receiving your confirmation of its availability. Of course, if you have questions or require additional information please contact me.”