Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Official Escape DVD Day!

El Escape De Los Santos, is a film that took us about 3 1/2 years to make.
The first 2 years were spent developing the script, and how the story was to unfold AND that time was spent buying the equipment we needed to do the film (camera, boom mic, cables, editing PC, etc.)

Alonso Wheeler, wrote 2 drafts, and I wrote the 3rd draft.
After assembling everything from our script, Alonso and I finally settled on it, and in 2004 we were finally ready.

In March 2004, we started shooting, and finished until February 2005.
We were very ill prepared, but we finally got everything shot.
I edited sporadically in 2005 due to the fact that I had a real job, BUT I finally finished a FINAL draft in June 2005.

We submitted to ALL of the remaining important film festivals, and we got rejected by ALL of them.
Luckily, I had submitted my film to a distributor called Venevision International, they called me very interested in the movie, and offered me a deal on the spot.

Later on we finally got accepted to the Hollywood DV Festival...

In April, ESCAPE was released on Pay-per-view all over the US, on dish network, direcTV, Time Warner, etc...

AND FINALLY TODAY, the movie is released on DVD across retailers everywhere.

But what does this really mean to us?
Simply put, this means that there's an audience for our movies, and we now know, we can make a career out of making movies.

Special thanks to everyone who believes in us, and especially those who have helped us along the way.

AND here's another special treat!
This is the Behind the Effects section of El Escape, which is also included on the DVD. Enjoy!


If you can't find the DVD at your local store, try Amazon.com or any other reputable online retailer, there are many who carry it.
To buy from Amazon click here.

Many people are asking what is included on the DVD, well here's the rundown:
-The movie has been changed to a widescreen format
-It will include 3 Behind the scenes featurettes
-Behind the Escape
-Behind the Effects
-Behind the Score
-Theatrical Trailer
-Subtitles in English

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