(BOULDER, COLORADO) Let's catch-up with the crew of Busker Alley as they shoot their way into history. "Now, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. When you get close to editing, the show is about to begin," says Zoobie, writer, director, and producer of the new film Busker Alley - The Movie! "We're still taking our sweet time before we now go, strangely enough, inside the studio."

Nearby fidgeting is producer Jack Carter who also has a hand in the film. "We wanted to be sure there was enough creative footage as well as including some of the classic routines. This film is a lot different from shooting on a regular set. Here, the real street is the actual set. We don't have the slightest control of what's going to happen. Like Zoobie said, we can't wait to get inside the studio to apply some finishing touches."

It was snowing outside the café as we parted with the two buskers. Zoobie continued with snowflakes in his long brown hair under a white light on the corner of "The Hill". "This is what happens when you become a busker for 20 years and then spend 15 years filming them. I can call on my own experience when it comes to telling this story."

Zoobie continues, "Writing and performing the film's soundtrack, I tend to get very comfortable in the recording studio. When it comes to shooting buskers, however, I've somehow gotten hooked. I've shot over a thousand of them - maybe two counting stills. I know that ending this film is inevitable but I may need several years of therapy once it does."

"This is a narrative that's pushing comedy in a direction never pushed. We're aiming for a perfect 3-point landing with the online movie debut of Busker Alley in 2010," said Carter. "I can't wait. Maybe we'll enter a few film festivals to see if people relate."

(BOULDER, COLORADO) And away we go! The film "Busker Alley" is currently in production featuring those crazy buskers and street performers in a quite original movie unlike any before it. Let's check in on producer Jack Carter and writer/director Zoobie and see how things are going.

"We've gotten some really great shots of what we're trying to portray with some excellent performers," starts Zoobie. "It's fun to write, direct, then shoot something that's different than anything else out there. In contrast, the documentary are much easier to make because the subjects, themselves, do just about everything for you. I've already been quoted twice in other documentary features and wasn't even performing. That just goes to show how competitive this area of movie-making really is."

"It's a lot more involved than I've ever dreamed - and funnier, too. There's some really cool stuff out there. We've extended our shooting schedule twice. We were simply going to go out and shoot but now we've found a very different angle in the making of our film. We're going to keep everything pretty much under wraps since these websites are really raked over by other film-makers. I guess the internet is probably the first stop in this whole process. I've even seen an attorney para-phrase something I've written."

Co-producer Jack Carter chimes in, "I never thought it would take this much effort, either. I'm not a perfectionist and neither is Zoobie but I think we may have more fun making it than we initially thought. Now that the economy has gone bonkers, it should be interesting to see whether it increases the number of people busking both here and globally."

"It's pretty strange trying to communicate to fellow buskers exactly what we're doing," Zoobie continues. "Some love it, some don't get it, and some just want money. We used to compensate everyone with cash. Now, the busker gets a nice DVD which ties them over until they see the movie. One busker said the disc was the greatest thing he'd gotten all year."

"It's nuts but we've actually got another movie in the works which comes out after this one..." Carter interrupts, "...but we'll cross the Charles bridge when we get to it."

(BOULDER, COLORADO) It seems there's just no love for buskers. To celebrate the start of Busker Alley's third year, an announcement to start the filming of "Busker Alley" this summer was made official by producers Jack Carter and Zoobie at the Boulder Café July 4th, 2008. Unlike previous movies of buskers and street performers, Busker Alley will not portray the classic busker love story gone wrong. There's just too much talent.

"We got very tired of this overused format. Almost every studio film ever made features a busker falling in love with another. It goes all the way back to the silent film "The Street Singer" and always with the same result. It's time for something different," said Jack Carter of the film.

"This movie will represent the finest in busker comedy mainly because there isn't any. Instead of love, Busker Alley will be an outrageous, wild, and hilarious escapade featuring Bob the Busker. He goes on a fun-filled journey featuring lots of authentic buskers," Zoobie added.

Zoobie, himself a busker for twenty years, will write and direct the effort drawing on his years of experience filming buskers worldwide. Exclusive distribution will be on BuskerAlley.com with the movie streamed over the internet. Shot in full HDV, it is yet another in a long series of firsts developed from the Busker Central reference site Zoobie created in 2005 (Princeton Review).

"We're going for a narrative in this production. I'd like to see a good narrative than another sleepy documentary. We can't reveal the crazy plot to the film but let's just say it's a study, refinement, and result of standing on the shoulders of giants in the industry with several funny twists and turns. But you'll find no love story here except the pure love, humor, and joy that resides deep within the art of busking."

"It's really quite a technological achievement to be able to create, direct, then distribute this Indie production conveniently on the web. It's great. Independent film is exploding and this is indicative of the art now being produced, thanks to the internet, that may not have been created otherwise."

The film will premičre online @ BuskerAlley.com and début onscreen @ the Boulder Film Festival.

(HOLLYWOOD) A stunned Glen Hansard was already in Heaven. He had just performed his nominated song center-stage at the world-famous Oscars. Although the odds were against his winning, the magic of the moment was more than enough to satisfy his artistic prowess.

Here was an Irish lad at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles waiting for the proclaimed winner in the wildest contest ever conceived. His dream was in full bloom as he stood starry-eyed out at the audience filled with famous Hollywood writers, producers, directors, and even stars.

Hansard flashed back to the time he was a busker on Dublin's Grafton Street for five years before forming the band The Frames. Although a rough and tumble lifestyle for a mere muse, his homeland was now on the other side of the world. He had made it to America and was honored to be here in more ways than one.

Then, it all turned into a fuzzy blur as Hansard heard "Falling Slowly" announced as the winner and suddenly would be speaking to the Hollywood elite. As he returned to center-stage to accept his Oscar, through the fog he realized an incredible thing had happened. A bloody busker had just won an Academy Award for Best Original Song from the Indie film "Once".

"Thanks! This is amazing! What are we doing here? This is mad! We made this film two years ago. We shot on two handycams. It took us three weeks to make. We made it for a hundred grand. We never thought we would come into a room like this and be in front of you people. It's been an amazing thing. Thanks for taking this film seriously, all of you. It means a lot to us. Thanks to the Academy, thanks to all the people who've helped us, they know who they are, we don't need to say them. This is amazing! Make art. Make art! Thanks!"

Hansard was ushered offstage where a huge round of paparazzi awaited his presence. The dream was just starting when he thought it was ending. "The Oscar for Best Original Song goes to...Falling Slowly...words and music by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová" kept playing over in his head. He was now famous. His film was famous. Speilberg had mentioned it at Cannes. He had made Oscar history. Now all that was left was the red carpet receptions and floating through the mist all the way home to the Emerald Isle.

Glen Hansard's accomplishment is an inspiration to us all.

Strive to be the best at what you do best.