Hollywood & Vines Edition, No. 1

...In which your intrepid reporter raises a glass and film funds.

Brilliant Readers — 

Welcome to the first of what will likely prove many Hollywood & Vines-themed mash notes I’ll send in the coming months as the gravitational pull of movies and wine continues to shape the contours of my life. Two great tastes together at last? Read the following with a glass in hand and see for yourself:

• An update on our wine-drenched werewolf flick, Werewolf Serenade, and how you can help uncork its lycanthropic potential.

• Netflix pairs itself with a Chardonnay. Uh, cheers?

• Alfred Hitchcock gets the vino treatment at DHowell.com.

Werewolf-a-Go-Go

Later this week, Kary Hess and I will drop into Blu Digital Group in Burbank, CA, to finalize the sound mix for our latest feature film, Werewolf Serenade. We’re adding the howls and wolf whistles that supercharge the soundtrack (special thanks to my bro, Shannon Ferguson, for creating the preliminary mix), and we’re launching a week-long IndieGoGo campaign to wrap this fur-baby up and send it into the wide world of film festiv…