Wamego Ultimatum

Product Description The provocative, super-juicy making of WATCH OUT. This is the final installment in the award-winning WAMEGO trilogy featuring iconic actress Karen Black, John Waters favorite Mink Stole, Susan Traylor and Selene Luna. ULTIMATUM exposes tips, tricks, secrets and how-to's to make a movie -- everything the aspiring filmmaker would ever want to know about DIY filmmaking. Follow a year-in-the-life of director Steve Balderson, actors Matt Riddlehoover, Peter Stickles, Jeff Dylan Graham, Jillian Lauren and the entire cast/crew of WATCH OUT. Review FIVE STARS. The trilogy is complete. Firecracker and Watch Out filmmaker Steve Balderson is back with the third installment in his Wamego documentary series that reveals invaluable tips and tricks to up and coming indie filmmakers as well as proof that you don t need to live in or anywhere near Hollywood to make movies. Places like Wamego, Kansas work just fine. Fans of Balderson, whose work also includes Pep Squad and Phone S*x , will delight to this charming behind-the-scenes look at his latest feature, as well as one of 2008's most memorable films, Watch Out . Fans love to see how the sausage is made and there certainly is quite a bit of sausage in Watch Out. However, more importantly, the real purpose of this doc is to impart pearls of indie film wisdom unto artists getting ready to take their first steps into the world of moviemaking, or even filmmakers who have been around the block a few times and are wondering what the h*ll they've been doing wrong for the past several years. Balderson guides us, quickly but thoroughly, through the process of making a feature film as he's making it. But don't look for lessons on filmmaking style and technique here. You want to learn technique, go to film school, or just pick up a camera and learn as you go. And as far as style, that s something that should always be brewed yourself. What Balderson actually provides here are tips on everything else you need to concern yourself with when you re not directly behind the camera. Everything from how to assemble your cast and crew, to keeping track of them and even making sure they stay happy while they re in town working on your film getting them discounts at the local liquor store is a stroke of genius to moving beyond production where we get tips on promotion, festival and theatrical strategy and even some wo