Behind the Scenes of Heart Strings

Four days left to go until we have to have Siblings: Heartstrings in the mail bound for San Antonio. Well, five days, but with Sabbath rest, it's four working days.

Developing directorial skills, or merely the outward appearance?

Juan was consistently checking to make sure the belts were holding up as drove down the road at 25 miles an hour.


Look Ma! No hands!


Jack Dale Moore between the famous Heustis Brothers.

Jeff Heustis manned the editing predominately by himself, with support from Daniel Rivera (who unfortunately had to give up the mouse due to a sprained thumb) throughout our first 10 days of shooting as more and more footage came in. Here he visits the set to aid his brother David: the Anti-Chaos. Jack had dual roles of actor and grip.

Originally, "Brownie" had a larger role in the film, but he ended up getting cut from a scene or two due to the distance to one set location. It was great driving it back and forth to and from the location for the Bed and Breakfast.

David taking a breather between shots.

The shooting schedule was short (over 50 minutes of film to be shot in 9 days, with only a couple actors left to shoot a scene or two with on the remaining three days) so the days were long and grueling. Everyone met the challenging task with an abundance of enthusiasm, great attitudes and a willingness to do whatever it took to accomplish our goals; they all gave excellent performances as well.

Gator looking for adventure, takes along his bag of tricks that he might be prepared for whatever may come his way.

I'm watching you.



Derek Moreland, a lead actor, keeps up a good attitude despite a tough schedule and a terrible headache.

Johnny Reighard, our story board artist and grip, spying on the set crew to make sure everything it just how the director wants it.

Canons at the ready

Shot of the day. Drama.

More later folks. Got lots of editing to do.

This project has come about solely by the providence of God, in many very direct ways. We'll be sure to tell the story of God's opening up the doors for this project on the Heartstrings DVD.

Special thanks to ReachingTheGlobe.com for their creative and technical work on the project, and to Buildings4Babies for financial support of the film.

How many of you are going to the Film Festival or Academy?

Lord willing, I'll see you there.

~ In Christ, John.