When Kevin Smith (indie auteur of Clerks, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Dogma) set out to make Red State with no distributor and total control of the process, he made some changes to how he'd made his last few movies. He set himself a budget of 4 million dollars and he shot on RED. You may have heard that much background on the film. But what catches our eye in this story from The Film Pilgrim is how RED's workflow gave him more freedom to make this movie the way he wanted.

"The new digital workflow allowed him to film during the day and edit it at night, resulting in an extremely fast post production schedule."

Post-production was so fast that..

"...Smith was able to show a first cut to the film to his cast and crew at its own wrap party, another indication of how seriously he was taking the film."

We're proud that our tools can help a major filmmaker create the movies he wants how he wants to do it. A recent article about Red State on Yahoo! says:

"Smith felt he improved as a filmmaker with the Red One..."

Thanks, Kevin. This warms our pulsing red hearts.