Goodbye Promise

Goodbye Promise (2012)

When do we say goodbye to our dreams?

Upon moving to Los Angeles, Matt makes a pact with himself: In seven years he'll be a working actor. His promise is that if he isn't working by then, he'll pack up and return home. The film begins seven days shy of the seven year deadline... and he's just as anonymous as the day he started. This is his goodbye story.

Date of release
2012-06-01
Genres
Drama
Director
David Branin

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

Goodbye Promise is a 2012 mumblecore feature film, directed and co-written by Film Courage co-creator David Branin, and stars Gregor Collins, who co-wrote it with Branin. The film follows Collins as he says goodbye to his friends before he quits the entertainment business.

Production

In April 2009 the film was among the first crop of indie features that flocked to crowdfunding - a relatively new concept at the time - to fund their film. Branin and Collins shot the film for about $500, and to complete post-production raised $16,203 on Kickstarter, which had launched just a few months earlier.

The crew consisted of Branin, the actor or actors in the scene, and one camera operator. There was no production sound mixer, consequently 95% of the film had to undergo automated dialogue replacement (ADR) during the editing process. Increasing costs and mounting post-production setbacks caused Branin and Collins to shelve the film for months.

The film was shot during the Summer of 2009, and because of actor's scheduling conflicts filmed only on weekends, from June until August. A portion of the film was shot during the 2009 California wildfires. During the shooting of the final sequence the fires were as close as a thousand yards away from the house at which they were filming in Sunland, California. The production crew was encouraged by neighbors and local authorities to evacuate.

There was no script, the filmmakers and actors worked off a one-page outline of the general plot created by Branin and Collins. All dialogue in the film was 100% improvised. The journey of the main character of Matt (Collins) was an amalgamation of Branin and Collins' real-life struggles to break out of "indie" Hollywood. There were no auditions.

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