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January 20, 2004

In the sumer of 2003 David Garrison and I (Tony Garmon) were driving back from a job that our survey
company was doing. You see, I had just recently been hired by David to work for Design Projects
Surveyors. We talked about my time during college studying film at Georgia State University, why I moved
home from L.A., and of course OUR favorite movie RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. This discussion led to
an idea of making a FAN FILM based on the movie. During January 2004 I decided to test the water on
what kind of support that David and I could get from the guys around us on making the movie. At first I
thought everyone would think that
we were crazy, but to my surprise, everyone said that it sounded like fun. Next came the fun part... a script.
David and I spent many lunches talking about what would be a good script, but easy to produce at the
same time.... that's when we came up with INDIANA JONES and the STAFF OF RA. Days later I was on my
computer writing the script. This script was not as easy as the feature length scripts
that I was writing because I had to tell a story in 30 to 40 minutes. Well, in a few nights I was finished and
knew right then that we had something special. We started filming in May and have led up to today. Its
been tough trying to work around schedules so we have had to shoot out of sequence, of course. With
only a few Saturdays to work with and little time on those days, David and I have received nothing but hard
work from everyone working on the film. We have had a wonderful time and lots of fun. Being the only one
with experience in acting, I have been nothing more than amazed with the quality of acting and the taking
of direction that I have seen with everyone in this film. We are pulling some of our best material after the
first takes.... which is wonderful with the little time that we have together. So finally, I give thanks to
everyone that helped in any way with this film and  to all of the people that take the time to watch our hard
work.



                                            Thanks
                                                     Tony Garmon