My crazy idea

Today is the deadline for entries to the 2008 SXSW Film Festival.

My crazy idea: I will have a feature film to submit to SXSW by next year's deadline for the 2009 SXSW Film Fest.

Why is this idea crazy? I have never made a feature film before. I have never submitted any film to any festival before. I have virtually no training as a filmmaker. And I am broke.

The idea to submit a feature to SXSW 2009 came to me about a week and a half ago, and I still want to do it. (A rarity for me.) Logic dictates that this is something that I shouldn't even attempt. Yet every time I think about doing it, I smile. So I figure, what the hell...