This weekend I spent some time editing the short film some friends and I shot in January. Many of you have read a little bit about it, seen pics online, or heard me drone on about it in person. I’m pretty excited about this little production, not gonna lie.

You see, I wanted to simply try an experiment. After spending nearly five years working on a documentary film that’s very close to my heart, Abandoned Allies, I wanted to try something a little different. I thought a comedy short film might be about as different from a feature-length documentary about war as it could get. I wanted to give it a shot.

So last fall I sat down and wrote a screenplay. I asked some friends to help out and several months later we found ourselves at Busy Bee in downtown Raleigh, N.C., shooting it. Now here I am, editing the short film so that I can share it with my director this week and get his feedback.

Man, oh, man. I have learned so much working on this short film. I can’t even tell you right now. The list of lessons I’ve learned is a long one. I’m pretty anxious to put those lessons to work on another short film. Gotta finish this one first though, eh?

Stay tuned. I’ll share more very soon.

Screen shot from the short film I’m editing. Left to right: Davion Dante, John Wilkins, and Mike WIlliams. Sally Smith is on the left behind Davion and yours truly is in the background (behind the bar). The film was shot at Busy Bee in downtown Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, January 29, 2013.