Notes from Overboard: Whacked But Fact—Chronic

By Tom DiCillo
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/tom_dicillo_whacked_but_fact_box_of_moonlight_20090527/
After the financing fell through on Box Of Moonlight for the third time I got an e-mail from one Fred Knimble. Fred had a production company based in South Africa that was looking for low-budget independent films. I sent him the script. He loved it. My producer Marcus Viscidi and I quickly worked out an option agreement that gave Fred and Uberlight Productions sole rights to the script for eight months. During that time Fred and his partner in Los Angeles, Daryl Pelts, would attempt to raise $6 million. Marcus and I were ecstatic. We’d never had that much money to make a film.