10th Anniversary of BLAIR WITCH at Sundance!
Happy New Year!
A treat from back in the day:
HAXAN NEWS #19
January 23, 1999
Hey:
We’re at SUNDANCE! Holy Scamoly!
We came in on Thursday in the middle of a blizzard that we thought we were going to die in. Our executive producer Kevin Foxe’s windshield wipers were busted so he had to keep sticking his arm out his driver’s window to manually move the suckers back and forth. We were behind him in a huge, 15 passenger van that we rented. We were warm and we were laughing at him. It was crazy, wacky stuff!!!!
The articles in the Post, FILMMAKER and RES came out. Pretty good stuff. We had a photo shoot yesterday morning for the LA TIMES. It was freezing! That comes out on Monday. We’re in INDIEWIRE today. The printed version at least.
We met with a bunch of distributors yesterday and we have two more meetings today. Tonight is the big night. Midnight. We’re hoping it’s packed. I’m nervous as hell. A lot of years of hard work and sacrifice on all our parts has come down to this. It doesn’t seem real sometimes.
We’re holding up pretty well. We’re all wearing our Blair hats and a lot of people stare at us like we’re morons because, after all, we’re all wearing the same damn hat! It’s cool, though. A lot of people have asked us about what the symbol in the front means and then we start talking about the movie and stuff.
All right, I’ll try to update you all as often as I can. Hope things are going well for all of you and take care.
-Ed
- For more BLAIR WITCH nostalgia, I’ll be on tonight at 8 PM EST on FEAR THE DEAD.