Run, Rabbit Run

Well the rabbit is well and truly out of the hat, and skipping nonchalantly toward the day of reckoning. Two major applications were dispatched yesterday, and have found their furry way to the NZ Film Commission. The third, the central application for production funding, is being assembled on the floor of the studio. In the last two days I've spent $300 on photocopying, despite the fact that the first two applications were in electronic form.

What can you say? You take your best shot, and hope to convince a group of people that there's magic in this project - a mojo that all of us involved with it over the last 7 years know about. But when it comes down to it, the fate will be decided by a group of people making a decision over a few hours, with all sorts of factors to use as guidelines. It's the way it has to be, when you're spending other people's money, and I don't begrudge this process of testing.

Nervous, a little apprehensive - yes. But also confident that we've put everything into making a convincing case, and now it must stand or fall on its merits. In about a week's time, and long before the mid-August decision is made, we begin to turn our sights to pre-production.

Go, bunny, go!