We ran out of time, and I couldn't assemble all of the elements required to shoot our sci-fi film in November in Rome; I had to push everything back to the spring.
Bummer.
But...
Despite the setback, or maybe because of it -- a lot of things came together, and I figured out that a growing group of people believes in the dream and the business plan -- two more producers joined Roma Hollywood, one in Tokyo and one in Napoli (Italy). Which gives us a home base in two Italian cities now, and a huge presence in Japan
Our concept is to shoot one movie a year together in Italy, for the life experience as well as the cinematic experience. We only have one key rule -- No *ssholes, which is literally in the bylaws. No matter how famous or rich you may be, if you're an *sshole, we're not working with you, full stop. We're on the mission to have fun and succeed.
It took me years of meetings, international travel, and telling people about this vision over and over and over to make any progress at all ... but we're finally getting somewhere. Not as quickly as I wanted (always the case), but we're getting there.
Onward. 7