Come to the Mall, It's Just Like Disneyland
Excepting for the holiday shopping season, it often seems -- at least to us (and by "us," I mean the filmmakers of Fish Kill Flea, if you haven't yet clicked on the tab above) -- that people don't congregate at shopping malls like they used to. Why would anyone want to fight traffic and crowds when Amazon.com and other online retailers sell pretty much everything under the sun, and at lower prices? Can you remember back when mall-going meant something more than a good deal?
There were a slew of reasons that we (ahem!), none of whom had ever before pursued filmmaking with any degree of seriousness, came together to shoot a documentary that sets its stage in a mall that time forgot. Nostalgia is the most obvious reason (especially in Brian's case, since his parents used to bring him to this very place when he was knee-high to an aisle endcap), while others are more creative, personal, and as you'll hopefully read in our press kit, sociological.
Fish Kill Flea is probably not the most commercially viable film we could've made in this age of trendy "pop docs." We don't have incendiary political agendas, crowd-pleasing characters with mainstream appeal, celebrity talking heads, flashy graphics that can help take down evil corporations, or seemingly banal subjects made exciting through suspense. We even like a lot of these films, and don't mean to make cop-outs by saying distribution wasn't our primary goal, but that's the scout's honored truth. We played by some doc rules and broke a whole bunch of others to best emphasize our ideas.
For better or worse, we (and a small few who've seen it so far) think Fish Kill Flea is endearing, sad, funny, odd and original, so we hope you give us a mere 50 minutes of your time when it finally reaches a film festival, theater or DVD store near you. If you like the trailer and site, please add our RSS feed to your blogroll, join us on MySpace, tell your friends, and check back as we'll be announcing our WORLD PREMIERE in the next few weeks... even if you think most documentaries are kinda boring, we promise you won't see another film quite like this one.
Thank you for shopping wit us.
There were a slew of reasons that we (ahem!), none of whom had ever before pursued filmmaking with any degree of seriousness, came together to shoot a documentary that sets its stage in a mall that time forgot. Nostalgia is the most obvious reason (especially in Brian's case, since his parents used to bring him to this very place when he was knee-high to an aisle endcap), while others are more creative, personal, and as you'll hopefully read in our press kit, sociological.
Fish Kill Flea is probably not the most commercially viable film we could've made in this age of trendy "pop docs." We don't have incendiary political agendas, crowd-pleasing characters with mainstream appeal, celebrity talking heads, flashy graphics that can help take down evil corporations, or seemingly banal subjects made exciting through suspense. We even like a lot of these films, and don't mean to make cop-outs by saying distribution wasn't our primary goal, but that's the scout's honored truth. We played by some doc rules and broke a whole bunch of others to best emphasize our ideas.
For better or worse, we (and a small few who've seen it so far) think Fish Kill Flea is endearing, sad, funny, odd and original, so we hope you give us a mere 50 minutes of your time when it finally reaches a film festival, theater or DVD store near you. If you like the trailer and site, please add our RSS feed to your blogroll, join us on MySpace, tell your friends, and check back as we'll be announcing our WORLD PREMIERE in the next few weeks... even if you think most documentaries are kinda boring, we promise you won't see another film quite like this one.
Thank you for shopping wit us.
originally posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007