Finding friends and friends of friends to be extras in your big crowd scenes
is one way to save money on an indie film shoot.  But when you are looking
for your extras to disrobe that can be another story!

In FTG, Cole Kim finds himself on the set of a porn shoot.  We needed to
find men and women who were comfortable being nude for the scene.  The day
before the shoot our extras casting team had lined up 5 guys and 8 women.
At 11pm that night the number of women had dropped to 5 and then by our
early morning call 0.  The guys all showed up but the women all changed
their minds for various reasons.
How can we shoot a scene on a porn set with out nude extras?

Here is the video about that stressful day!

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Lesson learned that day:  For nude scenes go with professionals!

Last night's screening of FTG at the Silver Spring AFI theater was a huge success.  People enjoyed the film and laughter filled the theater.  There were lots of great questions for us about our journey.  Thanks DCAPA film festival for taking such good care of us while in DC.  And on a special note: Christian's U-turn skills were impressive.

 

On Friday, I had a lovely day hanging out with my sister Cathy and Donovan. The weather was perfect.  I had a few free hours and made my way to the National Gallery to see the Edward Hopper exhibit. Love his paintings!  One of the best things about DC is getting into museums for FREE! Gotta love that.

 

In the afternoon, Joshua from the film festival picked Sung, Cathy and I up from our hotel to take us to Georgetown.  We were excited to see so many students on a Friday nite at our presentation.  I was also happy to recruit 5 students from GU to volunteer to come up to New York next weekend to wear the yellow jumpsuits!  Yea GU! Thanks Kevin for organizing the event.  We are looking forward to seeing lots of Hoyas at the IFC Center next weekend.