Brian,

In the film world, music always takes a backseat. It's an unfortunate reality. I've found myself in short deadline situations many times but have always beat the deadlines. After almost 14 years, I've seen it all...I think.

In this specific case, the film's selection into an upcoming film festival moved things up sooner than expected. Since the festival has not made the official public announcement yet, I can't reveal which festival it is. Also, if rumors are true, there's another festival, that starts sooner than the other one, that is about to announce the official selections. "Call Me Brother" is rumored to be in. So that has tightened the deadline even more.

I've been working on the prep for this since November. I just couldn't start looking for submissions until I had a lock on the final music budget from the producers. That brought me to a week and a half ago when I started looking.

I'm confident that this deadline will be met. People have already been submitting since I posted last night and along with the submissions that have come in since last week, things are looking pretty good. I just can't slow down until the last song is selected.

Best!