Posted by Nathan Barnes
The Widow’s Might, winner of the $101,000 Best of Festival Award at the 2009 SAICFF, continues to make news. The following is an excerpt of an email we received from Director John Moore (published by permission).
A lot has happened since the film festival in January! Along with continuing to work on the film, improving the sound and visuals, we have been in negotiations for a DVD distribution contract. We received a dozen offers for television or DVD distribution, some from very notable companies. We’re excited to have that kind of exposure and opportunity so quickly after the festival.
A very interesting thing happened though, in the beginning of March. A man called my cell phone, with a rugged southern voice. A brief conversation later, I learned that this man, Jerry Dalton, hadn’t heard that our film was an award winner of any type, but had searched the web for a God honoring film shot on a RED camera, and found us. He requested a screener, and after watching the film, called back with an offer for theatrical distribution to 94 screens.
It didn’t give us a lot of time to promote the film, but theatrical distribution on any level opens so many doors for DVD distribution down the road, we felt like it was a good decision.
Well, since then, we’ve been on television, broadcast over hundreds of radio stations nationwide, and in various internet and print articles about the release of the film. It started a buzz, and since then we’ve had over one hundred thousands unique visitors come to our site and look up information about the film. Things are going very well!
At this time, David and I have gathered up the necessary gear and we’re prepping for a cross country excursion to capture interviews with various folks that supported the film. Our purpose is to create the special features and commentaries for the DVD over the next month. The DVD will be released to the homeschool market in July, so keep checking back to TheWidowsCry.com for news and updates, including an announcement about a short film competition for families and filmmakers who want to feature their work on The Widow’s Might DVD.
The Widow’s Might is built on a foundation of prayer, so we ask that you continually pray for us, that we would be wise and honor the Lord as we finish this project.
God Bless, and Thanks!
John