Author: Brian Tolle

San Francisco Bay Area comedian Charlie Ballard has joined the cast of All the Others Were Practice as Jôrge. Charlie has been seen nationally on Logo, Comedy Central and NBC – locally he regularly performs stand-up, and produces the Hella Gay Comedy Show.

Our shirt store is a fun way to support All the Others Were Practice. The shirt store let’s you choose the style, color, & artwork to create your own unique shirt. There’s thousands of combinations, which one are you?

All the Others Were Practice is a human-scale production, an independent film in the truest possible sense. Our small, talented cast and crew use our efficient production pipeline to achieve clean, sharp images – with aesthetics driven by the story. Our production budget covers all expenses related to the 24 day filming schedule: development and…

This week, I’m in New York City for the IFP Independent Filmmakers Conference. The sessions are very informative, and I’m meeting filmmakers from all over the country that are making films of a similar size to ours. I can’t wait to get back to SF and our production team to start implementing some of what…

[slideshow_deploy id=’5638′] Today, we marched in the 2012 San Francisco Pride Parade! It was a long, beautifully sunny day, and we all had a great time. We were near very end of the parade, so we had a bit of a wait to even start, but we were entertained by the contingent from kink.com on…

[slideshow_deploy id=’5598′] We took a trip up to Guerneville and the Russian River, to scout locations. The area around there is beautiful, and we’ll be able to find everything we need.

ALL THE OTHERS WERE PRACTICE is a feature film set in San Francisco. It’s about Jôrge. It’s the post-gay romantic comedy of how Jôrge finds true love – how he learns that what you want from love and what you need from love, aren’t necessarily the same thing. Filming begins in April 2013, bringing together…

[slideshow_deploy id=’5634′] On Saturday August 20, we had a reading with the whole cast. First, we read the script straight through, without stopping for questions. Hearing the characters come to life through these talented actors is a treat in itself. After a chat about questions that came up during the reading, we did a second…

Read the Storyboards Get a feel for how the film will look with these storyboards that illustrate the first four scenes from the film. Storyboards are used in a lot of different ways in making a film. We are using storyboards to help reduce the cost of the production. The boards give us a chance…