Resurrecting this Blog

Hello again world!

I'm back after a long 3.5 year stint in college film school to inform you that I'm still at it!

Here are some updates!

Junior Thesis Film was featured as NFFTY's Film of the Month in February 2012:

http://www.nffty.org/interviews/vigilance-film-of-the-month


I'm currently job hunting here in LALaland. It is tough, ego driven, tightnit, and tiny out here. You are bound to get screwed, trampled on and told no or not even recognized no matter how much work you do. Fortunately, I do have one last interview this week. Fingers crossed.

In the meantime, the goal is to keep creating. So, I am helping my friends documentary happen:

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a group of disorders that can involve brain and nervous system functions such as movement, learning, hearing, seeing, and thinking. The ability for people with CP to communicate effectively is often impaired by problems with speech and also gestures usually used in communication, causing most students to be misunderstood. This keeps capable young men and women from their true potential in higher education, even though, each of these students are talented and can achieve many things, on many levels.

Help us raise awareness and support through, Chain Reaction, a documentary that is currently being filmed, about a cross-country bike ride raising awareness for students with Cerebral Palsy, in support of CP Scholars who's mission is to raise scholarship funds for students with cerebral palsy who are seeking higher education, through the newly established, Kineavy-Gaynor Scholarship Fund.

To learn more about the Scholarship and the trip please visit our website at www.cpscholars.org. Spread the word and donate here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/Chain-Reaction?a=482010

Thank YOU for taking the time to help.

More to come!

The Wild Thing Is Right Here

Loved this movie.
But a certain someone asked me what it was about and I found myself realizing how complex this story is.
If at first I had to put it in only a couple words I'd say love and forgiveness. But there is a deep complexity to that.
Hidden within everyone is an instinct for anger and rage. It bursts out every now again and it is something very real to life. I remember feeling that way as a child, ready to explode. Whether it was sister rivalry or being at odds with mom or brotherly impatience, you could feel it bubbling to the surface and all you wanted to do was scream, let it out, make someone listen. As you learn and grow older, gaining a certain level self-awareness, you can begin to step back from the situation, but that feeling is still there, ready to fly out. When it does, being human it will, you have to be ready to forgive because love is the greatest part of humanity. How do we show that even when we're scared or angry or hurt... when we're lost, or lonely or confused we still love each other? To accept that feeling, let go and forgive. It's that kind of love that connects us. Life is a wild thing.

So for me, Where the Wild Things Are is about what it means to be human.

Oh Dear Its been a long time...

Curiously enough people do find another's blog interesting...
What an adventure... I'm in the strangest place in my life right now. Things are falling away and while I still have the tendency to act like a child sometimes, I am back in my home town finding out how people tick... how life is endlessly changing. I'm evolving and trying to adapt. It's unnerving.

So far this summer... going with the theme of this blog... I have an internship at a local production company and I just participated in the 48 Hr film festival:

1) The Internship. I've learned some and yet have been kind of disappointed. Transcriptions, research, casting assisting, production assisting, extra, QC, etc. It's good, but I just want to be needed for more than just a little job here and there. Shadowing associate producers I guess is the best I can do.

2) Almost a complete fail... We didn't make the deadline but we did complete a film. There's a little success. I got to understand production dynamics a bit better with what is really necessary not to overlook. I also got to see how a team can really not mesh.
I'll link the film if it's ever put online :)

Leaving for the mountains in a few days... it's so damn hot here.
That's all I got.