Califone to produce a feature length film!

Well, it isn’t often I present ‘breaking news’ in this space, but I simply can’t seem to find much information about this anywhere, and I’m really excited about it. Chicago’s Califone seem to be working on a 90 minute film called “All my Friends are Funeral Singers,” written and directed by Tim Rutili with music by the band. The projected release date is this autumn. Photographer Brian Bankston has some stills from the production that look amazing. There’s a bit of info about cast and crew on this Facebook page. And Kevin Ford, who runs the indie video production house Mo-Freek mentions on his blog that they’ve finished shooting and are in the early stages of editing. And that’s all I could dig up.

I heard some new Califone songs live last night, and was already excited for their new record and then to discover this morning that a gorgeous film may accompany the release… holy crow hooray!