February-March

Our 3-day shootout ended up ok. A dozen of us
huddled at (Whistle Stop owner) Elizabeth's house
for the nights. She gave till she gave out.
Unfortunately, some of our actors bailed,
and some of our other scenes had to be cancelled
too, and the other times we just ran out of light.
With what we have, it's time to let the editor eat.
This site will probably be quiet for awhile. In the
meantime please visit the grand re-opening of
the best Fried fan site out there:
http://fgobsession.ravenwolfprods.com

Fannie, Come to Juliette ! ! !

AmyKJ, and I, got to meet the author of Fried Green Tomatoes during a signing of her new book,
A Redbird Christmas. I'll have pictures from that
after I shoot the other 24 exposures (yeah, right, check
back '05). She was very super cordial and I tried to
guilt her to go back to the town she gave the
breath of life to. Fannie, your children await
you. Come have a book signing, some fried green
tomatoes, and let's get interviewed.

November-December

We got in one good shooting day on the Senoia, GA
trestle where Buddy met his fate(tality) . We were
unfinished, though, as we were trying to get
to Juliette for their Green Tomatoe festival. So,
we'll have to go back. Meanwhile, click here for pictures from that day

October

We are shooting Ruth and Young Idgie lookalikes
on the Juliette water bridge and at the Senoia trestle

September

Welcome to all who recently saw the interview on
TV 13 WMAZ in Macon. Thanks to Kandace Raymond
for all her work and thanks to Suzanne Lawler
for getting it started.
With your mouse, right click here
and save this interview to your
computer. Give it a while, it's big

If you would like to go to WMAZ's web site
for the article/interview click here.
Warning: the video is not very clear.

The camera that was damaged has been adapted
and is now ready for rolling again. We're back on
track and back on search for wardrobe for
the reinactments.

Congrats to our composer, Glenn Morissette, recent
winner for best original score at the 48 Hour Film
competition in Raleigh-Durham. click here for more
information from his web site.

August
when disaster strikes
Part I ?
with DV camera bag over the cameraman's shoulder,
the shoulder strap magically unlatched sending
the camera on it's head and breaking the microphone.
Devastation has lead to depression and
with 19 days til our final shooting wknd,
things are on hold. Please send all
miracle prayers ASAP

July, 2004
Good news for Danny means postponement for us.
He was recently cast to play Bill Johnson in
Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash movie.
We'll get him to Juliette soon, though.

Meanwhile, the docu-trailer is ready. It's 3 ½
minutes (may take a little time to download).
use your mouse and
right click here
then save file to your computer
(The music used is temprorary)

May, 2004
The intro footage to the documentary was completed.
We took a little trip North and finally got the beginning
out of the way. Also, now that Danny has gotten the
Oscar glory out of his system we can get to
work on collecting the remaining footage.

March, 2004
The January visit went great. We interviewed all
shopkeepers except for the Whistle Stop. We stumbled
upon a Buddy Jr. that day and incorporated
him into our Smokey-on-the-tracks scene.

The crew of Emmy/Amy/Clay were on top
of their game (even with Clay's toothache). We
arrived at dark and left at dark.

We will soon return for more scenarios and to
get the WSC interviews. We're keeping Elizabeth
in our prayers as her father passed away
and her son left for Kuwait.

October, 2003
Hi all!. We will be in Juliette for the
Green Tomato Festival Oct 25th.
FoMoInfo:
http://www.juliettega.com/greentomato/default.asp


Preproduction is still in progress and we're hoping
to gather more footage and then begin the interviews.
Stay tuned or email neillien@hotmail.com

July 12th, 2003
We've added another FGT enthusiast to the
project. Erin Lillis who is an entertainment assistant in L.A. and has her own FGT web site;
http://hometown.aol.com/AbsolutEBL, has
graciously jumped on board to help out. Besides having a BA in film, she actually interned with FGT director John Avnet and producer Jordan Kerner.

Preproduction is still in progress and we're hoping to gather more footage and begin interviews in August. Stay tuned or email neillien@hotmail.com

May 24, 2003
The Jennifer Blackburn Benefit was an
uplifting and successful day.
Jennifer is to have 3 surgeries in New
York on a brain tumor. The town supported
her with an all day affair of a yard
sale, bake sale, and auction. Q106
of Macon was there and the event
was mentioned on Atlanta TV.