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Tonight is going to be the first time I'll see the film with a real audience.I had been fine all week until today.
Right now, I am nervous as hell.
Up until now, the prep, the shoot, all the editing, the music, the entire creation of this film has been a theoretical exercise in how to make a good movie.
Tonight will be the real litmus test.
Even more stressful is that fact that many of the cast and crew will be seeing it for the first time; I just hope to God they like it.
They all worked so hard on the film and it would be so sad to disappoint them.
When I premiered my first film The Motel at Sundance, I had this same knot in my stomach.
In fact, I had been so stressed out about it that I ended up passing out at our post-premiere party.
That was the first time since high school that I had just simply blacked out and fell flat on my back mid-conversation with someone.
They should make medic alert bracelets that say "filmmaker" on the back.
Just moments before passing out and being carried out of the bar in Utah by my actor Sung Kang, I met Teddy Zee for the first time.
Little did I know that we would be working together on West 32nd and premiering it at Tribeca and now he'll have to be the one to carry me out.
The big highlight of the past week has been getting to hang with the cast and crew again.
We threw our launch party last night and it was as the kids say "off da hook." We had a line down the block and the place was packed till the very end...
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