Maverick dispatches ‘I DO’ to DVD
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Two weeks ago, one of the hardest-working indie filmmakers living and creating in MICRO-FILM Country, Kimberly Conner of Predestined Arts & Entertainment in Springfield, announced on Facebook that her second feature film BEFORE ‘I DO’ would be released in multiple territories on Tuesday, March 6, including the United States. Maverick Entertainment Group will distribute it domestically on DVD and streaming platforms as they did with Conner’s full-length debut, JUMP IN, which you can watch via Amazon right now. The DVD product listing on the same site tells us little about what we’ll find on the disc although certain omissions – no mention of a Blu-ray edition or extras – are par for the course with movies du C-U that swing a commercial release. We should still be happy for this outcome and cross our fingers that ‘I DO,’ a well-attended New Art Film Festival selection in 2016, will find an even wider audience than the one it has received after nearly two years of festival play. We’ve discussed ‘I DO’ both here and here, so we won’t rehash the details at this time other than to say its acting, writing, production values, and music score all improve on JUMP IN, which is exactly what we’d like to see from a budding writer/producer/director honing her craft. At the least we’ll share the Maverick DVD art, featuring lead actors Jensen Atwood and Omar Gooding, to help fire you up for its appearance in stores and on merchant sites in a few weeks. We’ll be awaiting word on which of Conner’s screenplays in development, including the previously announced thriller LIPSTICK and horror story MACABRE, will become her next project to be greenlit. Hopefully, Illinois location shooting continues to play a part in her process.
~ Jason Pankoke
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