The shortest company move of the shoot: a few blocks from the H-E-B lot to the Depot of Homes set off Aldrich Street. Scenes 57 through 60, J.J. Fernandez as A-Train, and real driving work in Angela's car.

Disc golfers and roller-rink regulars in the background, a stunt fall, and the most brutal continuity puzzle of the shoot. Scenes 52 and 54 through 56.

Scenes 26 through 29 at the Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center, a real working facility, shot low-footprint alongside the community it serves. The most important day of this diary so far.

The transit day: Scenes 31 through 33, 38 takes, and a single camera roll. ODIE is a movie about crossing a city, and today was the day the crossing itself got shot.

Downtown exteriors on a holiday, a mid-day company move to Mueller Lake Park, 67 takes, and Syd Goin's first day as Blu, one of the most visually distinctive characters in the picture.

The schedule got reshuffled, and the crew rolled with it: 69 takes on the downtown apartment cluster, Scenes 43 through 47 and 49, a week ahead of where the original board had them.

Scenes 18, 19, 23 and 25 at Lake Travis Pawn & Jewelry, a working shop on Ranch Road 620, and the longest drive of the shoot so far. Worth every mile.

The heaviest day of week one: seven and five eighths pages at the overpass off North Pleasant Valley, Gerald and Trixie's spot, and a crew that parked at Rosewood Park and walked to work.

A quieter, heavier day: six and five eighths pages inside the Manchaca Shelter set, Roderick McDaniel's first day as Mr. Anderson, and Mathew Mitchell arriving as Gerald, styrofoam cup and all.

ODIE begins. Dean Stanfield wakes up as Owen Harper above Barton Springs, the crew logs 85 takes across the Zilker cluster, and our script supervisor writes one word in the margin: Perfect.

On the eve of Day One, meet the department heads and craftspeople carrying ODIE through fifteen shoot days across Austin, from a veteran-turned-AD to a Bolivian script supervisor to a post team stretching from LA to Lisbon.

Two days before cameras roll, a running thank-you to the businesses, organizations, and individuals carrying ODIE toward Day One, and an open door for Austin businesses that want in.

The day players of ODIE, sixteen actors with one day each and no room to miss, plus the casting decision we are proudest of: Austinites who have lived homelessness, on set as paid background artists.

John Zamora of King Daddy Ice and Music Water joins ODIE as an in-kind sponsor and Associate Producer, keeping a fifteen-day Austin shoot cold and hydrated. Nobody who has stood on a Texas set in late May will call that a small contribution.

ODIE's supporting cast: Edwina Thompson, Syd Goin, Mirtha Martinez, Mathew Mitchell, and Daniel Freeberg. Five actors who turn a one-day odyssey across Austin into a world.

Dean Stanfield leads ODIE as Owen 'Odie' Harper, a grieving Austin handyman with 294 days on the street and one curfew between him and a bed. Meet the actors at the center of the film.

Three weeks out from principal photography, I can finally say it: Lester Platt is the Director of Photography on Odie. That sentence felt a long way off two weeks ago. Finding the right DP for a micro-budget feature is one of those problems that looks straightforward until you're actually inside it. You need someone who can move fast, read a location in thirty seconds, make decisions under pressure, and still care about every frame. You need someone whose visual instincts lin

I've been location scouting for ODIE, and I keep running into the same realization: Austin isn't backdrop in this film. Austin is the test.

ODIE started with a simple question: what does it actually take to get off the street? Not in theory. Not in policy. In a single day. In this city.

We’re excited to officially welcome several new cast members to ODIE as the film continues to come together here in Austin. Each of these performers brings something distinct to the project, and we’re grateful to have them joining the production. Leading this round of cast announcements is Syd Goin, who joins ODIE as Blu. A gifted stand-up comedian and a sharp sketch and improv performer, Syd has trained at Upright Citizens Brigade in New York and also studied at The Hideout,