Not much exciting to report for the past week. I have been continuing to rewrite, condense, and reorder scenes to make the Bear Town screenplay as "lean and mean" as possible. At the moment the script is 97 pages and I think I can remove a few more pages of dialogue. My ultimate goal is 110 pages (for a film that runs 1:50) and with only 10 - 20 more pages left to write I think I'm very close to hitting that target.

Saturday I plan to check out Doors Open Toronto (a great event) to try to get some ideas for potential locations for Bear Town. Every year, for one weekend in May Doors Open Toronto opens up some of Toronto's most architecturally important buildings for free tours. It's a great way to check out some very exciting locations in the city that aren't otherwise open to the public. I'm most excited about seeing the newly-restored Carlu (which is supposed to be one of the world's best examples of Art Moderne architecture) because it was closed for thirty years and reopened just a few weeks ago after two years of work. It's "round room" would be perfect for the penthouse location in Bear Town but the daily rental fee listed on their website is $3,500.00 so it may not be very economical. I'll have to wait and see.

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