If you have seen Cowboy Smoke and enjoyed it - then please don’t forget to vote for us on IMDB. 

It’s a pretty simple process. All you need to do is click on the following link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795362/  Then vote for Cowboy Smoke on a scale of 1 to 10. You may need to register for IMDB if you have not already done so but this only takes a few seconds – I believe they require an email address and a password – that’s it! Anyway, by voting for Cowboy Smoke you are letting other filmmakers, distributors, sales reps, agents, managers, and the general public know what you (the audience) thinks. This helps us, especially if you vote that you liked Cowboy Smoke – come on, you know you liked it.

The screening this past weekend was a success!

The response we received from the test audience was overwhelmingly positive. It was really cool to read the questionnaires afterwards - mainly because everyone genuinely loved the film. I even had a woman come up to me in tears after the film gushing over how beautiful and touching she thought the movie was. This meant a lot to me because the majority of the audience had nothing to do with producing the film. The audience had been selected at random by local radio stations. 

One last note – Don’t forget to vote for your favorite poster on our message boards – tomorrow is the last day.  

That’s right, you get to pick your favorite Cowboy Smoke poster. Chris Lambright, our graphics artist who is handling all of the art work (DVD cover, posters, blah, blah, blah) has finished some samples for the Cowboy Smoke poster and I wanted to share them with you. Please take a look and feel free to vote for your favorite poster on the production boards - http://www.cowboysmoke.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?b-pr/  This poll will run through next Friday and whatever poster receives the most votes will be used to help publicize Cowboy Smoke.  If you wish to vote, you must do so on the production boards. Thanks!  

Grassroots baby! We need to work on building an audience for the film - so whenever you get a chance, tell a friend about the Cowboy Smoke website. The postcards on this site are great way to invite a friend to sign up for the newsletter.
We will be holding one more private screening on Saturday February 16^th at 4pm. If you did not get to attend the first screening please email me at will@bandwagonfilms.com and put in the subject line “WANT TO ATTEND SCREENING”. In addition to this please note in the body of the email the number of guests you would like to bring. I will respond with a confirmation and the location of the screening.
This screening should be fun. We are giving out tickets on the local radio station in order to create a test audience. After the screening those in the test audience, along with any others that would like to stay, will answer questions about the movie.
Questions like:
What did you like about the film? Not like about the film? Who was your favorite character? Least favorite character? Would you tell others about this film? Who would you tell?
Answers to these questions will help us gain a better understanding of who our audience is.
In addition to this I have been compiling a list of distributors I think would do a good job distributing Cowboy Smoke. This is due to the fact that there are literally 100’s of distributors out there and by making a list I will be able to focus on the 30-40 distributors that I fell are a good match.
I have also been working on the DVD itself - the DVD menu, DVD artwork, behind-the-scenes segments, and a new trailer. I really wanted to do a commentary track but I think that might have to come later. Right now I just want to get the DVD ready to ship out – I am planning on sending the final packaged DVD to producer’s reps (basically sales reps), agents, and managers.  These are people that will help us sell the film.