And it goes on
This is probably the worst part. Your stomach turns as you wait for feedback... I check my email a hundred times a minute. Did someone read it? Are they done reading it? It's crazy.. kicks me around... and people have their own films and schedules to tend to... sometimes I get the feeling that I am being brushed away... Understandably, there are screenings to happen and films that need our attention, but I really just feel like I wil get dicked over in terms of the amount of time.. oh well, as long as I get to speak to people on a 1/1 basis.
Hung out with Colleen last night, and we were up till 5am, discussing the script, tearing it apart. Need to start rebuilding, but this part of the process is great because you know you're just fixing things... and making the script better. This is only the first part of the process... and I think I want to have casting calls soon. I should write up character bios and yep... this one is going to be a tough cookie. Bring it on!
Cathy Crane's film on Simone Weil premiered on Tuesday night at Cornell Cinema to a full house. It was really nice to see her so happy, she was just so excited about sharing her latest cut with an audience. Doing festivals (and later this year, her DVD) for her just made me learn so much about the festivals I am doing for my own last film. I sent out my own film, Alones, to some friends in the industry in LA and got their feedback which was borderline positive. The film is 25 minutes long making it impossible to program, it is also not enough gay, not enough asian, not enough white, not enough student film, etc and it has technical problems in the sound sync and in that it mixes 16mm with DV. So. Right about now, I'm rethinking the 700$ I spent on film festival entries... But I should probably wait another month when the results start rolling in before I decide that it was a complete waste of time. The thing is that I wanted to honor the commitment everyone made and all the work we put into the film by allowing it the possibility of an after-life. And same for Cathy's film, we are going to find its home in the world. My prediction is Cleveland Int'l Film Festival. PS: We have both decided that getting her AND my film selected for the same festival will be super cool.
In the works: a website for Four Line Films (production company) and Alones (that last film I did). Second draft for I, Love and You (the film I am working on right now)
On the speakers: Philip Glass' soundtrack for The Hours.
Under the lamp: Marx's Communist Manifesto (fantastic, thanks Nick!)
On the Calender: Cathy's BDay party tonight post Beth Custer's screening of lost Soviet film, My Grandmother.
Hung out with Colleen last night, and we were up till 5am, discussing the script, tearing it apart. Need to start rebuilding, but this part of the process is great because you know you're just fixing things... and making the script better. This is only the first part of the process... and I think I want to have casting calls soon. I should write up character bios and yep... this one is going to be a tough cookie. Bring it on!
Cathy Crane's film on Simone Weil premiered on Tuesday night at Cornell Cinema to a full house. It was really nice to see her so happy, she was just so excited about sharing her latest cut with an audience. Doing festivals (and later this year, her DVD) for her just made me learn so much about the festivals I am doing for my own last film. I sent out my own film, Alones, to some friends in the industry in LA and got their feedback which was borderline positive. The film is 25 minutes long making it impossible to program, it is also not enough gay, not enough asian, not enough white, not enough student film, etc and it has technical problems in the sound sync and in that it mixes 16mm with DV. So. Right about now, I'm rethinking the 700$ I spent on film festival entries... But I should probably wait another month when the results start rolling in before I decide that it was a complete waste of time. The thing is that I wanted to honor the commitment everyone made and all the work we put into the film by allowing it the possibility of an after-life. And same for Cathy's film, we are going to find its home in the world. My prediction is Cleveland Int'l Film Festival. PS: We have both decided that getting her AND my film selected for the same festival will be super cool.
In the works: a website for Four Line Films (production company) and Alones (that last film I did). Second draft for I, Love and You (the film I am working on right now)
On the speakers: Philip Glass' soundtrack for The Hours.
Under the lamp: Marx's Communist Manifesto (fantastic, thanks Nick!)
On the Calender: Cathy's BDay party tonight post Beth Custer's screening of lost Soviet film, My Grandmother.
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