Filmmakers Challenge Audiences to Find Movie Mistakes

Eric Stuyvesant and Scott Wachtel celebrate a time-honored tradition of Independent Film by encouraging viewers to find continuity mistakes and other errors.

Akron, OH (PRWEB) December 19, 2005 -- Every low budget film suffers from mistakes. Lack of funding and resources have always dictated that there will be problems in sound design, lighting, continuity, and artwork. Rather than wallow in their mistakes, filmmakers Eric Stuyvesant and Scott Wachtel have challenged audiences to point them out.

“I have been over this movie with a fine-toothed comb,” says Wachtel, the film's editor. “I know everything that’s wrong with it, and dare people to find something that I may have missed.” Lucid Vision Entertainment, the film’s production company, will be hosting a series of online cash and merchandising giveaways to viewers who can correctly identify problems. “People will have the opportunity to win autographed copies of the film, bumper stickers, movie posters and more,” adds Wachtel, “it's the proverbial 'Where's Waldo' of indie films.”

While recognizing the film’s shortcomings, Stuyvesant and Wachtel remain confident that content will hide a number of problems. “In our test screenings we found that most people became so engrossed in the story that they lost track of our errors,” says Stuyvesant. “We concentrated on our actors delivering strong performances, and that’s what draws an audience in. If you have the audience’s attention focused on the story they’re not as likely to see all your miscues.”

Celebrating mistakes is not uncharted water for the filmmaking pair. “When I wrote the script,” adds Stuyvesant, “it was a cathartic healing process that started with finding the humor in my own life. I had gone through a divorce and had custody of my sons and was having a very difficult time coming to terms with my situation. I had to learn to laugh at myself in order to live with myself.”

"Custody" is a quasi-autobiographical film that uses prison as a metaphor by placing the main character, Rick Stevens, and his three sons behind bars. “The first year in any single parent’s life is emotionally trying,” says Stuyvesant, “often times you and those closest to you are trapped in an emotional prison.”

Copies of the newly released DVD can be purchased online at http://www.lucidvisionentertainment.com/custody.htm or at http://www.CustomFlix.com/208245

Opportunities to win merchandise and other valuable considerations can be found at http://64.177.155.218/Invision/index.php?s=64f341798e03508bf1de8bf62b3213c4&showforum=8

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