Meet The SponSIRs- Castparty Productions
You have heard me speak, Tweet or generally rave about my fellow SponSIRs. Since I think they are totally cool I would like to introduce all of you to them and their general awesomeness.
Check out the links to my friend’s sites and please support the SponSIRs
“Inventory” movie, Castparty Productions, and tellmeaboutyourmovie.com
A few months ago, I finished a low-budget feature film that’s resonating with fans of Kevin Smith.
We met some Kevin Smith fans on Twitter and at the Red State screening in SMoston. We gave them pre-release copies of our movie — and they loved it! Outreach on SIR made simple good sense as a way to get the word out more broadly.
On May 16, 2011, I ran an ad on Jay and Silent Bob Get Jobs (starting about 1 hour and 8 minutes into the show), with the following free DVD offer, which is still available to SponSIRs and their fans:
Here’s your chance to get a pre-release copy of Inventory — an irreverent, new slacker comedy — for FREE!
Made in Boston for under $100,000, it was described by Reel Zine as having the “comedic magic that infused contemporary ensemble classics like The Breakfast Club and Empire Records… a brilliant spiritual fusion of Clerks, Waiting, and senior study-hall.”
A crew of retail slackers are supposed to count furniture on inventory day… and they discover things about each other and themselves.
Warning: contains extensive immature language, pot smoking, and impiety.
And it has a Beatlesque powerpop soundtrack that David Bash of the International Pop Overthrow festival calls “Amazing.”
A Kevin Smith fan the filmmakers met at the Red State screening in SMoston came to the local Inventory premiere and said: “Inventory has run through the door Clerks helped open for indie film. Further proof that comedy is best when it’s funny, not expensive.”
The filmmakers are giving away 100 free DVDs to the Kevin Smith fans who send the best response to: “If I like the movie, here’s what I’ll do to promote it.”
Send responses to info@castparty.com, that’s info@castparty.com
For more information, and to watch the trailer, go to inventorymovie.com
It turned into an epic read by Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes, with the latter blurting out “Hello, everybody, this is Castparty Productions” about 5:00 minutes in. It continues, with many digressions until 15:30! And then, around 24:05, Kevin Smith imitates Mewes blurting out “castparty.com.” The generous time they gave the ad blew me away, given that the expectation is for the ad to run about two minutes.
Below are the key points we sent them:
- If you like movies with the irreverent charm of Kevin Smith and the awkward humor of the Coen Brothers… visit castparty.com — specialists in sad, little comedies.
- At castparty.com, you’ll find all kinds of curiously entertaining short films — free. Also, trailers for their feature films — including the new slacker comedy, Inventory, which Reel Zine raved about, comparing it to Clerks and The Breakfast Club.
- Check out Castparty’s sci-fi side, with Esc (like the computer’s “Escape” key): a lonely geek uses a teleporter to find a mate. Fred Dekker — director of Monster Squad, Night of the Creeps, and producer of Star Trek: Enterprise — calls Esc a “great film.”
- Like most Castparty films, Esc stars Dennis Hurley, seen on Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show.
- There’s also Human File #752: a bittersweet end-of-the-world mockumentary.
- Telemarketing Orphan: where a street urchin out of a Dickens novel pitches telephony services to a stoner.
- There’s tons more at castparty.com: gory stuff, absurdist stuff, documentaries…
- A Not-Safe-For-Work love song — “I Love You in a Fucked-Up Kind of Way” — with lyrics in 3D!
- If you’ve made an indie feature film, check out their sister site, tellmeaboutyourmovie.com — stories of DIY filmmakers who, just like you and the guy reading this ad, scraped up a few precious bucks and made it happen.
- Lloyd Kaufman calls Tell Me About Your Movie “a cool blog about filmmaking,” and it will be cooler still if it has your story about making your low-budget feature.
- If you’re a fan of real indie cinema, check out castparty.com and tellmeaboutyourmovie.com.
Kevin and Jay not only covered all these topics, but their reading was quite entertaining as well.
Hats off to Steve at Emerald City Catering / Big Boss BBQ for the super idea and initiative to create a community around SponSIRS!
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