You Tell the Story Three Times: T...

You Tell the Story Three Times: The Making of El Tonto Por Cristo

Wild West Filmmaking by Josh David Jordan
S2 · E12
Jul 31, 2026
10:09

Episode notes

With the film wrapped, we headed into the editing bay to see what we had.

Jess had endless amounts of SAG paperwork.

I worked with Julian, our oldest son and our main editor, night and day, to put this story together.

I had to kill some of my favorite scenes along the way, in service of the story that was actually unfolding.

You tell the story three times. The one you write. The one you shoot. The one you edit.

You’ll be able to see this edited film this August.

If you were on the watchlist, you already got a special announcement.

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Big news, August 1st.

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