A few years ago, I was contacted by Robert Budreau of Lumanity Productions Inc. out of Toronto, Canada. He’d read “Dry Whiskey” and wanted to turn it into a short film. We worked out a deal and he went off to work on the film while I went on to other projects.

I hadn’t heard much about the film until recently when it received some good reviews at a film festival in Kansas City. One of the comments began: “Making a great short narrative film isn’t easy — which may be why so many of them opt for the movie-as-joke format. Robert Budreau’s Dry Whiskey exhibits all the virtue of a terrific short story. In fact, it was adapted from an award-winning short story by David B. Silva.”

There’s more, but I won’t bore you.

I haven’t seen the film yet, but Robert has promised to send me copies. He also sent me a note he’d received this month from The Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival, informing him that Dry Whiskey had been nominated in the Drama category for a Golden Sheaf Award. The fesitval will run May 25-28,2006. You can learn more here: http://www.yorktonshortfilm.org/

If anyone catches it, I’d love to hear from you!

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