![]() ![]() Everything kind of stopped,” continues Estevez. But, because we ran out of money, we couldn’t keep the wheels turning. It was kind of a surprise little Indie movie. “We rang the bell on a true grassroots level, and then the movie came out and it did okay. This screening tour also involved Estevez’s father and son, and sometimes, there would be up to two screenings a night with Q&A’s after both. “And it was vetoed by the distributor…So I said, okay well, what I couldn’t do on ‘ Bobby’ I want to do on ‘ The Way’.”Īnd they did, through a 50-day, 35-city tour that began on the West Coast and traveled across the USA up and down. ![]() “I had a crazy idea during ‘ Bobby’ that I wanted to shrink wrap the bus and take a tour across the country to screen the film at colleges and universities and for large groups,” Estevez says. “ started out as this very independent production-I mean, we were funding the pre-production on our credit cards and my mom was using her mileage to bring actors over from Los Angeles to Madrid.” Emilio Estevez Shayan AsgharniaĪnd after being filmed, ‘ The Way’ became such a project that the actor-writer-director took an old idea with a new lens to try and get the feature seen across the country, even without a large release. “We were a scrappy lot,” Estevez explains. ![]()
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