I can't make it to the Mr. Sadman screening in Chicago this Friday, so my friends at FAAIM asked me to do a prerecorded Q&A.

I realized that after all this time this is the first "official" Q&A I've done for the film. I guess the result is kind of fitting then:

Found an old interview tape that we shot with Al No'mani, the lead actor in Mr. Sadman. I didn't know what had happened to it until I came across it in a box last week. Was a great find. I sure do miss the guy.

Below he talks about having to drink boba for the first time.

There's more on the film's website, mrsadman.com.

This is the original promo trailer we shot over a couple of days in November 2006. Seems like ages ago. Though it may not capture the exact tone of the resulting feature, I'd like to think it stands on its own as some kind of odd creature.
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Shot by Chuck DeRosa on a Panasonic DVX-100.
Production sound by Kevin Remón Thompson.

A man comes to terms with a critical part of himself.
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Shot on 16mm with an Eclair NPR.

Briefly featuring Hadrian Santos.

The opening photo montage in Mr. Sadman.
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With the late Al No'mani. Music by übertalented composer, Austin Wintory.

Another scene from Mr. Sadman in which Mounir meets his new Los Angeles neighbor, Stevie, played by Scoot McNairy.

Scoot's a crazy talented guy who produced and played the lead in the film, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, which won the John Cassavetes Award at this year's Film Independent Spirt Awards.

Don't ask why. Make of it what you will…
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Shot with an old single-chip dv camera and its crappy onboard mic.

In a culture of quick fixes, a sad guy is trying to get happy–and so is everyone else.
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My old roommate back in San Francisco used to listen to a lot of self-help tapes. That's where I got this idea from.

Shot on a Canon PowerShot S40.

Featuring Alex Fay, Ly Nguyen and Jim Espinas.

Finally got this Mr. Sadman clip of Mounir trying to play basketball on YouTube with sound. Apparently they have some audio recognition software that senses musical patterns and automatically mutes your audio to nip any kind of copyright infringement in the bud before it starts.

The song is by my friend, C.J. Pizarro.

For the first entry on this blog, I'll post the teaser trailer for Mr. Sadman. It's a start.