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Blowing Smoke is an independent film about what men talk about when women aren’t around. And when it cames to talking, the people behind the film want to carry on the conversation on their very own blog:

This is where Blowing Smoke’s cast and crew talk about all that is related to the experience of making the movie and the technology involved. It is also a conversation with those who enjoyed watching it as much as we did making it. This blog has no non-smoking section.

And, in fact, you may notice that the entire web presence is based around the blog. You can watch the trailers, download wallpapers and movie stills and read about the cast (although some bits there still need tweaking), which is pretty much the functionality of a movie site. Only for the Blowing Smoke people it means that they can update any part of the web presence as and when they feel like it. No need to go into templates, just add a cast bio, or a sidebar link, or a download as if you were putting up another blog post. How do I know this? Coz our tech and design guru built it that way…

But the real deal is the blog, where hopefully most of the cast will talk about the film that has quite a few things to recommend it. Not to everyone’s taste, perhaps, but I am sure that there is an audience for a film that involves cigars, poker, a scantily clad chick and an occassional firearm. All in the best possible taste, of course.

The producer explains his thinking behind the film, which was produced using some groovy digital technology that makes for a truly stunning quality of the picture. I hope they get to talk about that on the blog eventually.

So there it is, a film blog that intends to engage the audience rather than stream things at it. Let’s see how it goes.