And the next stop for A4 to A3 is the Rhode Island International Film Festival, after the film received an early ‘official selection’.

“This early acceptance is a direct result of our enthusiasm for the project, which we are certain audiences will share in August. In granting this privilege, our hope is that A4 to A3 will be a highlight of the festival”.

Which is nice…

The film now has an official website which can be accessed right here at http://a4toa3movie.com/

Congrats, as always, to my musical co-writer, Simon Barlow, to Dean Codrington and to Joe Main.

It has been quite a journey for this little musical that Simon Barlow and I wrote over a series of very late nights, many, many years ago in a cramped, hot room — while the neighbors threw rocks at the tin roof to try and get us to shut up.

We withstood your rocks!

Then my brother-in-law moved into that room.

You must long for the days when the worst thing coming out of that room was a musical…

Anyway, best of luck to Director, Dean Codrington, and lead actor and producer, Joe Main, who are now on the red carpet in Newport Beach, California.

That’s right.  The little musical I wrote with Simon Barlow has one of these logos attached to it now.

Producer/lead Joe Main and Director Dean Codrington are flying over to LA and heading to the Newport Beach Film Festival for the screening of this in April (I will be home with a newborn baby).  Here’s hoping it will be just the first of many words in leaves for this film.

Simon Barlow and I have been writing and performing music together for over a decade now.  A4 2 A3 is a short musical comedy about love in a photocopy store that Simon and I wrote a long time ago.   We wrote this whole thing in a few hours… over a few years.  The theatre version took home the People’s Choice Award in the inaugural Short, Sweet and Song festival, after which it was optioned by the lead actor in the musical, Joe Main.  Joe then asked me to write the screenplay for its film adaptation.

Joe Main, who is soon to appear in the feature films ‘Ektopos’ and ‘Centre Place‘, has poured a lot into this film.  No expense has been spared and the quality of the film surprised and delighted Simon and I when we saw it (yes, ‘delighted’… not sure I’ve ever used that word).  The director, Dean Codrington, has done an incredible job with the film, adding some great moments while also remaining faithful to the screenplay.

As a writer, my job entails pouring all of my heart and energy into something and then saying goodbye to it.  I’m well practiced at politely lying to people, while smiling through gritted teeth, about how much I enjoyed their butchering of my work… but I seriously couldn’t stop grinning when I saw this.  Thanks and congratulations to all involved.

A4 to A3 is hopefully about to start a fairly hectic film festival season.  I’m sure it will get a lot of those words inside leaves next to its name.

It looks like another short play of mine is also being optioned – more when it’s official.

Speaking of unofficial, I’ve just handed in a script for another Star Wars project and it looks like Randy Stradley (fast becoming my favourite guy) may have something else he wants me to write.

Meanwhile, a guy called Corax (i’m going to assume that’s his real name) contacted me to let me know that there are some preview pics up at the Dark Horse Website for Star Wars: Invasion #1.  Go.  Look.

The second Invasion prequel story will be appearing at starwars.com Friday if you live in the US or Saturday for Australians… if you live in a timezone other than those two, I imagine it will still be appearing around then.

Lastly, I was mentioned in two separate articles in The Age today.

‘The Teatowel Was My Jedi Robe‘ – written by my becoming-hideously-famous friend Lawrence Leung.  If you haven’t seen Lawrence’s brilliant TV show ‘Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure’, track it down, it’s great.

The other article was ‘The Fan Force‘ by Jake Wilson.  I even got a pic in the paper for that one.

Check them out Star Wars Fans.