Resolved

Everyone makes resolutions on the brink of a new year.

I'm no different than anyone else (much to my own personal chagrin), but my goals for the "new" year, are actually the completion of something I started seven months ago -- so, in truth, I only have five months left to accomplish the task I set out for myself last May.

If you're a frequent reader of this blog, A: I adore you and B: you'll remember that I temporarily relocated from Brooklyn, NY to St. Petersburg, FL last Memorial Day weekend with a white-hot purpose: to raise local money and awareness to fund and fuel my first feature film: Lullaby.

And in the past seven months, I've made a sizable dent in the awareness department, but I know there's more I can do and I'm resolved to get these things done before the one-year-in-Florida mark hits.

(Listed in no particular order, and revised as things are completed):

• Approach local Rabbis about the project and begin a synagogue-by-synagogue presentation tour.
• Re-apply for and be re-awarded the FL Film Tax Incentive. (1/17)
• Confirm the FL Holocaust Museum's involvement with the project. (1/20)
• Ask the FL Holocaust Museum & local Jewish Federations to sponsor a public screenplay reading, possibly in conjunction with Yom Ha'Shoah (Sunday, May 1, 2011). (1/20)
• Confirm leading actress' attachment that I've been alluding to for so long. (3/4)
• Continue with other casting attachments.
• Continue following potential investor leads.
• Continue with early location scouting and acquire Letters of Intent from various desired locations.
• Attend all of the FL Film Festivals between now and Memorial Day with the highest possible schmoozing agenda. (There are at least five that I know of between now and then, therefore I am skipping Sundance this year and instead, allocating that money for local-based travel.)
• Have at least two articles about the development of the film published. My targets? The St. Petersburg Times, The Jewish Press, & Creative Loafing.
• And for funsies... write one entirely new screenplay.

And if when I get all of those things done by Memorial Day 2011, I will know that I have truly, TRULY done everything possible that one woman can do.

Contendi ad vici in annus novus!