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As an NYC independent filmmaker with a fledgling production company (“Don’t Quit Your Day Job Productions”) tackling a documentary film in the Big Easy is a daunting task. But the film’s subject matter is a textbook example of life imitating art: I have dreams too, just like the girls on Bourbon Street. I just choose not to do it in a g-string. (Too cold during the night shoots!)

Challenges are always a part of a creative project. In our case we are working with various venues and establishments in New Orleans that may decide our point of view is in contrast with their own. Although we have potentially secured a filming schedule at several clubs on Bourbon Street this could change once January rolls around and we would be forced to delay shooting until the club owners either changed their minds or we secured alternate shooting locations.

Additionally, the subjects of the documentary come from a world much different than our own and although they have agreed to have their stories told in the film they may feel that sharing their deepest, darkest secrets might paint them in a different light than they see themselves. We have already had one delay based on lack of funding and a hesitancy from one of the characters to be portrayed in the film.

Currently pre-production is on schedule and filming will begin mid-January on location in New Orleans and we hope to complete the post-production/editing, etc. by March 2013.

This is your chance to get in on the ground floor of not the summer’s biggest blockbuster but a fascinating slice of Americana pie. Where else can a girl go from a teenage runaway to a drug addict drowning in the rushing levee waters to a stripper shaking her moneymaker to a painter who uses tears and oil to color her canvases? Only in America.