May 20, 2009

In the Movie Month of May...

May has been an all consuming month of movie making for me. My short film "Man of the Cloth" has been filming the past couple of weekends, and with some luck we'll finish shooting this Saturday. It's kept me incredibly busy, and has definitely been the most valuable experience of my college education. I love making movies, and I've enjoyed working with some incredible and talented friends and classmates on this one. Actually finishing a film is nothing short of a miracle, no doubt about it.
The movie is about a newly ordained Catholic Priest in an old forgotten mining town. It will be done sometime this summer and playing in festivals internationally starting this next fall.
One of my favorite parts about making this film has been our locations. We filmed some of it in the west desert in Tooele County, but most of the film has been shot on location in Eureka, UT. That's in Juab County about an hour south west of Provo. Eureka is one of those places that you wouldn't want to go back to after a first glance, but if you spend some time there the place grows on you.
Just for fun I've put up a panorama shot of Eureka below. I like combining images to make panoramas, and this is probably the most seamless one I've done yet.