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NASHVILLE PREMIERE! NOVEMBER 19 AT THE BELCOURT THEATRE!
Tickets are on sale now online at the Belcourt website or at the box office. We are going to have a few Lincoln Presenters in attendence, so this should be a fun screening! Please support independent film and come on out! Visit www.belcourt.org

SEPTEMBER 2008
We picked up two awards! Yeah us! We received the Audience Choice Award for Documentary at the Derby City Film Festival and we received the Best Tennessee Feature Film Award at the Secret City Film Festival. We are pleased! Thanks to Kris and Ashley Rommel at the DCFF for treating us like royalty, and a big thanks to Keith McDaniels for making us feel at home in Oak Ridge. You guys run two great fests!

JULY THROUGH AUGUST 13, 2008
We finally have great news. We have been accepted into two nice niche film festivals. The first, The BLACK EARTH FILM FESTIVAL in Galesburg, Illinois (home to Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg) will happen around September 18th. We are waiting for the final schedule, but we plan to go up and take part of the festivities. The second festival is the Derby City Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. We are stoked about this because they invited us to be the opening night film! The directors of the festival, Kris and Ashley Rommel are very ambitious. Go visit their website and buy tickets to the festival! www.derbycityfilmfest.com

FEBURARY THROUGH JUNE, 2008
We've entered over 30 film festivals (you don't want to know what that costs! Ouch!.

JANUARY, 2008
We've taken some time off. It's been busy! Hope everyone had a great holiday. Now we start the process of final editing and entering film festivals.

DECEMBER 1, 2007
We have finished our first rough cut of the film and are starting the process of submitting it to film festivals. Let us know if you you hear of a film festival that would be a good fit for our film. We'd appreciate it!

NOVEMBER 21, 2006
I was invited by Melinda Senters at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky to film a mock debate between Jefferson and Mrs. Davis (Cliff and Joan Howard) and Abraham Lincoln (Mr. Jim Sayre). Whether or not Davis and Lincoln ever met is unknown, but the ideas presented (pulled from historical anecdotes) by Cliff and Jim were very entertaining for the standing room only crowd. I enjoyed the quaint campus and had dinner in the student hall with the whole group afterwards. Thanks for the hospitality Melinda!

NOVEMBER 20, 2006
I left Gettysburg late on Saturday and headed 2.5 hours West to Somerset Pennsylvania, home to Ralph C. Lincoln. Ralph is an eleventh generation Lincoln and a distant  cousin of Abraham Lincoln the President. He had a very eerie likeness to Mr. Lincoln, his hazel and slate colored eyes, his big hands and ears, and of course his messy hair! The only thing that I could see that he didn't share with the 16th president was Abraham's 6' 4" towering frame. I took him and his sweet little mother out to lunch and we talked a great deal. I hope Ralph decides to 'present" Lincoln professionally. I think he'd do a great job.

NOVEMBER 19, 2006
I barely caught my plane on Saturday en route to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for the anniversary of the reading of the Gettysburg address. Vicki had to stay home with our boys (did I mention we have no budget for our film!). It was great to hear Tom Brokaw give the main address, preceded by Gettysburg expert Gabor Boritt, director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. And of course, the reason I was there, was to hear Jim Getty present the Gettysbu rg Address. He did a fantastic job. We got to sit down for a few minutes afterwards. I was lucky to get 15 minutes of film because he was in high demand by everyone there with a camera! Thanks to Grace Reese of the National Park Service for helping me with permits. All the National Park's staff was gracious and helpful. We are lucky to have them steward one of our greatest national treasures.

I had hopes of hooking up with Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY, but it wasn't in the cards. Mr. Shenk's fantastic book dissects the melancholia that burdened President Lincoln his entire life. I hope I get to meet  Mr. Shenk sometime in the future. His insight on our project would be enlightening.

NOVEMBER 11, 2006
I followed Dennis Boggs as he was escorted by the Color Guard of the 13th U.S. Colored Troops Infantry at the Veterans Day Parade in Nashville. Again, it was a very cold and blustery day and I must say, that with all the hype about patriotism these days, I was disappointed in the turn-out of Nashville citizens. I still had a great time getting to meet Bill Ratcliffe again. His likeness was used for the statue of the colored soldier in the Veteran's cemetery in Madison. Go see it if you can!

The biggest surprise of the day for me was that the Confederate re-enactors outnumbered the Union re-enactors 2:1! I also met a colored CONFEDERATE re-enactor from Ashville, North Carolina by the name of H.K. Edgerton. I'd seen him before on national news stories about the use and banning of the Confederate flag. I witnessed one of the other Confederate re-enactors walk up to Mr. Edgerton and peel off a wad of hundred dollar bills and handed it to him. What is that all about? Emmmmm....

OCTOBER  14, 2006
I spent Friday night in Elizabethtown Kentucky the night before the big Lincoln Days Celebration in Hodgenville on Saturday. It was cold! John Mansfield was accompanied by his wife, children and grandchildren, rooting him on in the Lincoln Look-a-Like contest. The competition was stiff, but John won! Dennis Boggs was obviously a great coach having won the same contest twice before. congratulations again John!

OCTOBER  9, 2006
John Mansfield's wife, Betty, is something else! She handmade John's tie for his appearance at Hodgenville (just 4 days away) and it looks awesome! I don't have a term for her, so I'll make one up...she's a sewing ARTIST! Any of you other Lincolns who need an accurate looking tie, call Betty.

Still waiting to hear from Mr. Spielberg. I wonder if Roger Corman has ever made a Lincoln movie, ummmm?

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
John Mansfield and Dennis Boggs met me for lunch today at Nashville's premiere 12th Avenue Coffee Shop "The Frothy Monkey". Yep, that's the real name. I believe John and Dennis hit it off. Dennis loaned John a long coat and a shirt for the Lincoln Look-a-like contest in Hodgenville and, I believe, John came away with some great advice. I'll be filming John on Monday, Oct. 2 at his church with some ladies who are going to help him color his beard. And later in the week, we'll visit John and his wife Betty at their home and get a tour. Keep those emails coming!

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
Today I filmed an interview with Iris LaRue, the director of the Lincoln Museum in Hodgenville and one of the coordinators of the Lincoln Days Celebration. She was awesome! She is a great spokesperson for her community. They should be proud of her. She had lots of good information. We had lunch and I meet a few other locals. I love small towns. I'm really looking forward to the Lincoln Days celebration in October. See you all there!

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006
Vicki and I drafted a short and sweet letter to Steven Spielberg and got it off to California. Hey, we're shooting for the stars here people! He can't tell us to "beat it!" if I don't try, right? His input on what makes a "good" Lincoln would be invaluable to our project. Wish us luck!

AUGUST 17, 2006
We shot the "official" sit down interview with John Mansfield today. He is excited about entering the Lincoln Look-a-Like contest and shared with us an idea he had for the presentation portion of the competition. I won't give it away because he has to work it out. I will say that his idea gave me goosebumps. For a guy that has never done any acting, John has an excellent sense of drama. We hope to film him in the next few weeks "rehearsing" his bit. Also, John has to get a new "costume". All he has is a tiny felt "stovepipe" top hat which he is not crazy about. Anyone with leads on a nice, reasonably priced "Lincoln"style top hat, please email us, and we'll pass the info on to John.

AUGUST 9, 2006
We are excited to launch the website. Vicki and I hope you will visit again and check the news link from time to time. We're going to treat it like a journal and try to keep everyone up to date about what'll be happening next on the documentary. Please feel free to link to any of the pages or movies. If you would like us to add your link to our links page, please send us the link so we can check it out. If we feel it's appropriate we'll post it.

AUGUST 2, 2006
We'll be adding Nashville's John Mansfield to our list of Lincolns we are following. John will make his first bid as a Lincoln Look-a-Like at the Lincoln Days Celebration in Hodgenville, Kentucky in October. The first bit we will be doing with John is to have a "beard watch". He's cutting his thin whiskers completely off in hopes they'll be nice and bushy by the competition. John has never officially presented Lincoln outside of renting a suit and reading the Gettysburg Address for boy scouts. John is 6' 7" tall!