Next week is HUGER (if there’s such a word!)

Yesterday, awe finished the movie. The Way, My Way.
Tomorrow we have our first advance screening.
Talk about cutting it fine!

But we did it, thanks to Post Production Supervisor Rishi Shukla, Wayne and Libby Pashley and their team at Big Bang Sound Design, Rob at ZigZag Post and Rodney at JORR. They all worked unbelievably hard to get this film ready for this coming spate of advance screenings, before the movie opens nationwide on May 16th.

Johnnie Walker, variously described as Camino royalty and Camino legend, arrived in Sydney Friday morning. He will be attending all the screenings across the country over the next ten days, doing Q&As with Jennifer and myself, and Chris Haywood for a few sessions too.

This freight train leaves the station tomorrow. The schedule is:

• Tuesday 16 / Mount Vic Flicks / Blue Mountains / NSW
• Wednesday 17 / Opening Night film, Gold Coast Film Festival / Qld
• Thursday 18 / Cremorne Orpheum / Sydney / NSW
• Friday 19 / Roseville Cinema / Sydney / NSW
• Saturday 20 / The State Cinema, Hobart / Tasmania
• Sunday 21 / Brighton Bay Palace cinema, matinee / Melbourne / Vic
• Sunday 21 / Nova Carlton, evening / Melbourne / Vic
• Monday 22 / The Sun cinema Yarraville / Melbourne / Vic
• Tuesday 23 / Nova East End cinema / Adelaide / South Australia
• Wednesday 24 / Luna cinema, Leederville / Perth West Australia
• Thursday 25 / The Windsor / Perth / West Australia
• Friday 26 / John, Jennifer and I fly to Croatia to attend a gala screening at a conference of European Camino leaders from 17 countries, in Pula Croatia on May 3rd.

It’s a pretty gruelling schedule, right?

But Johnnie is deeply committed to promoting the film, which he says is the most authentic movie made about the Camino.

If I’m a bit uncommunicative on social media for the next two weeks, this is why!

What I’m most looking forward to is sitting with audiences and seeing how they react to the movie. And I’m looking forward to the Q&As too.

Gruelling, yes – but huge fun!
After eight years working on this film, tomorrow it finally steps out into the light.

Chris Haywood (playing the role of Bill) and Johnnie Walker on location at O Cebreiro on the Camino.