Valentine’s Day Movie
Check your local theaters for a new movie Valentine’s Day weekend from Dave Christiano. Titled Me & You, Us, Forever, it’s based in part on Dave’s own story of love found and love lost.
Attending a film opening weekend is like voting in the presidential primary (which I did today!).
It was a case of deja vu for Dave when he saw Kathryn Worsham’s (seen at left with Dave) headshot. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Dave’s high school sweetheart. After meeting and auditioning her, Dave knew he had the right girl for the part.
The film covers a span of 30 years, from 1974 to 2004, and is a story of romance, divorce, and healing.
Dave took on the challenge of marketing this film himself and doing the legwork to book the film in 83 cities in 34 states. The film will only be shown in theaters equipped with digital cinema. He’s hoping the film will do well enough in its opening weekend to add more cities the weekend of May 9th.
What great stories do you have tucked away in your memories? If someone were to write a movie based on your life, would it be a romance, comedy, action-adventure, sci-fi, horror, or cartoon?
Good question — what kind of story would our lives be on the big screen?
As a filmmaker, a lot of times it feels like my life is a movie — I’m not sure if the hard circumstances that arise in my and my family’s lives to overcome major obstacles and trials are there to help me understand other folks who are suffering and better express it out there on the screen to minister to them– or my situations are no different than others and I see my life as a movie simply because that’s what I do and that’s how I see the world… or just that God sees fit to burn away more of the chaff in me because my potential to reach lots of people - and in representing him I need to be pure — because one error has potential to mislead scores of people. There’s certainly a lot at stake for us as filmmakers– it’s no easy walk.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:12 am