Film Courage: Which came first Where Blood Lies the short film or Where Blood Lies the feature screenplay?
Byron Q., Writer/Director: I wrote the short film screenplay first and then as I was planning to make the short film. The feature screenplay was being developed and so I guess at the same time maybe. The funny thing with that movie was originally I wanted to make a short film as a proof of concept but the original short film that I wrote there was a backstory to one of these characters. It was about these two kids who find a hidden abandoned bunker and they go in and find out there’s this creature but there was a whole backstory to how this experiment came about and I scrapped the entire movie. The backstory, so I made that into Where Blood Lies.
Film Courage: How much time did you put into shopping the feature script?
Byron: I put a lot of effort into it. I reached out to everybody that I knew in terms of executives or whoever. I did everything I could but the feedback that I kept getting was they just didn’t know, it’s going to be expensive or vampires, we see a bunch of stuff with vampires already. That was the general feedback…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Byron Q is a Chinese American writer/director originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. His first film Bang Bang won the Best 1st feature jury award at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The film went on to gain a cult following within the Asian American street culture. His last feature, Las Vegas Story, starred Eric Roberts, is distributed by Indie Rights. He is repped by Housefire Management. Byron recently completed a successful $25,000 Kickstarter campaign for a short sci-fi film entitled Killing of a Machine which plans on using Virtual Production workflows and Unreal Engine.
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