SpeakEasy is a documentary film about the fear of public speaking, and the 2008 Toastmasters World Championships of Public Speaking. Filmmakers Paul Galichia and Brian Weidling embarked on an almost two year journey – conducting hundreds of interviews about public speaking anxiety, and capturing every stage of the tense, highly competitive World Championships of Public Speaking.
We’ve met so many amazing people and seen so many interesting places on this continent, I think back and it seems a little surreal to have made such an odd, fascinating, arduous journey. Williston North Dakota. Wetaskiwin, Alberta. Erie Pennsylvania. Vegas. Homeless shelters. Angola State Penitentiary. Magicians. I’ll rattle on as we recount the adventure and get ready to release the film. We’ll have pictures and videos and blog posts and communities and message boards and Tweets and favorite links and all things public speaking…. and, of course, at some point soon, the film itself.
We’re taking pre-orders for the DVD in our store – top right of this page – for the Toastmasters event coming up in February. We also are selling the Toastmasters promotional DVD as well, the perfect answer to “What is Toastmasters?” and an excellent promotional tool to your club!
This is what we showed at the World Championships of Public Speaking!! Let us know what you think!
(we’ll be uploading a larger version of it later this week – and you should be able to hear the bass at the beginning – ok disclaimers no more!)
**WHOOPS WRONG TRAILER – IT’LL BE UP IN A BIT! SORRY! **
Please leave in the comments section – the competition seemed especially tight this year. I thought our SpeakEasy cast member Robert Mackenzie was phenomenal. We’d actually seen that speech at the regionals in 2008 and I remember being pretty blown away by it. Great speaker, great guy.
Watched the re-edit last night. We cut the film from 103 minutes to about 91 at the moment. Reworked the credit sequnce, re-arranged a few things we’d been putting off for awhile… and now, yeah, this sucker is cleaned up and ready for action.
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Thanks PayPal for giving me a heart attack and stressing me out because a customer service representative forgot to make our account eligible for payments. VERY disappointing, but we’re back up and kicking.
Should have store online again later today. Sorry!!!
Sorry we’re having a paypal issue – I’ll let you know when we’re accepting paypal orders again!! Should be real soon and sorry if you’ve tried already and weren’t able to complete the transaction.
Hey all we’re kinda gathering ourselves today after the big convention. This was our 4th in a row. Good times. Wow. I went to the dinner dance in 2007 as we scouted for the film and didn’t know a soul. Now I’m walking around the convention floor without enough time to chat with all the friends we made on this journey. Astounding. No possible way everyone could’ve been nicer to us (except for the gentlemen who was very upset about the running time of the rough cut last year…sorry my man, we thought you knew!)
If you were at the convention, give us some tips on what we could do better next year. We had a few goofs and screws ups – I mean, misspelling “entertainment” on the flier is probably the most embarrassing gaffe I’ve ever been a part of (I HATE typos and the flier changed 12 times in 2 days because of all sorts of technical problems and about 8 people missed it and …. grrrrrrrrrrrrr) – but besides that, anything people especially enjoyed or not?
We about had a heart attack when the audio went out on the Vegas promo before the premiere of the new trailer. THANK YOU BILL STEPHENS!!!!
Let us know – and here’s a picture of our esteemed salesgirls Natalie (left) and Angela (right).
If you’ve never been here before or just heard about SpeakEasy, welcome!!! Pre-order the film for your Toastmasters club at the store – top right of this page. We are really excited and going to post the new trailer soon!!!!
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