Award winning film featuring Seguin native to be digitally released
(Seguin) – Being at home with a remote in our hands could not have come at a better time for one Seguin native who is promoting tonight’s digital release of her award-winning independent film, “A Room Full of Nothing.”
Ivy Koehler Meehan, the lead actress in the film, says the project which started nearly three years ago garnered recognition in handful of film festivals, culminating with today’s release on various streaming services.
“About a year ago, we premiered in Los Angeles and less than a week later, we got a call from a sales agent who -basically how films work whenever they go to festival is you want to get sales agent, you want to get a distributor so that more people can see your movie. With big time movies with big time stars, a lot of times that goes to a theatrical release and for smaller independent films usually that means a DVD release or what we are doing, a digital release and thankfully because of the time that we live in, digital releases are kind of becoming the norm with streaming services like Netflix and Amazon and iTunes and things like that. So especially with the times we live in right now, it is great to be able to find a new film. A lot of big time production companies are putting a lot of films that were supposed to come out theatrically this spring and summer, now they are putting them on streaming services and encouraging a little bit more than you would for just like an On Demand movie and that’s how they are finding their audience,” said Meehan.
As featured before on the Seguin Daily News, the film is a “sardonic look at the life of artists when they’re fed up with the world around them.” It follows Meehan and Duncan Coe, the leading male actor, as they “accidentally will away everyone in the world and must manage their sanity in a state of increasing isolation and fractured reality.”
In her promotion of the film, Meehan writes, “What is it to live without society to make and enjoy art, entertainment, friendship. We didn’t mean to release it in the middle of a pandemic, but here we are.”
“It’s an apropos of what’s going on right now. It’s a very relevant movie we think about being a little bit in solitude, about being with your companion, the one you love and the relationship that comes from that so none of this was planned although, it does work out for our benefit of being able to have people stay at home, stay safe and get a chance to watch we hope is an entertaining film,” said Meehan.
Meehan says she’s excited about today’s release of the film and is grateful to share it with others.
“This wasn’t planned because of the quarantine. Basically, we are a small film and we were lucky enough to get a sales agent and distributor a year ago, and they’ve been working to try to get it on platforms the last few months and so we just released our platform list which those platforms will be where you can rent the movie or buy the movie,” said Meehan.
Today’s digital release will include a special one-time only livestream commentary featuring members of the cast and crew. The group will be hosting the virtual watch party today beginning at 7:45 p.m. Steps to join the livestream party are available on the A Room Full of Nothing Facebook and Instagram pages. The follow by pressing play on your TV at 8 p.m. for the movie. The movie can be accessed anytime today on iTunes, Amazon or AT&T Uverse or any other available streaming service of your choice.