This is my *very first* interview as a writer-director, and 😮💨😮💨😮💨….
I really like the writer whose podcast this is, so when she asked me for an interview I jumped to do it. But then, I thought ‘Wait a minute… do I know how to do an interview?”
Well, it’s done now. In the end it was like just talking with a young friend.
Still, maybe I shoulda been more formal.
Friday was my mother’s birthday. She would have been 82.
I’m still gutted and can’t breath properly when I think about her death.
But some days, I’m present to loving her more now than ever. Because I see her efforts as a mom, how she tried to raise these people who would be prepared for the world in certain ways, and always value, even protect one another as a tribe-band-siblings. And more and more, to her heart as a woman, her reach and passion for the world around her, in the absence of that trait, anywhere.
Then I’m gutted again, for the void of that. Seeing in the most profound way, how indispensable people truly are.
(A lesson I don’t think anyone truly gets, till a loved one who they are engaged with dies.)
But, I’ve been moving forward.
I moved out of New York. Went back to school. Been trying my hand at online dating off and on (the pits still).
Made my first short in years, in a directing class.
A simple assignment, 3 shots edited to sounds not from the shoot.
I felt like I had just gotten out of bed, pulled the cover back on my life.
Found the fire in the embers.
I’m knee deep in researching different styles of Anime because I’m currently writing one. So I thought I’d share some cool short anime I stumbled upon while combing Youtube for music.
Yeah I said music. I’d been buying Anime on Itunes, which isn’t cheap, so imagine how happy I was to discover this group while looking for something to listen to.
The first, second, third, and fourth video of theirs…were all ANIME!
So great! Anyway, enjoy…
How every single trailer, and movie should play.
Create an emotional landscape as pathways off the screen into the heads and hearts of audience, to the point we can’t believe the characters aren’t here.
Somewhere.
(Damn. My turn. Lol…)
Lol.
I started checking out what it is to write a play because something I want to explore creatively, feels like it would make a better play.
However the challenge is, playwriting isn’t exactly my medium. Or at least not the one I’ve been working at. Filmmaking is.
However, after mom’s death, I’m loyal to nothing. Life is short. So if something piques my interest, I’m on it. Who cares? We’ll all be taking a dirt nap soon, so why not try ALL the things that call to you now?
From the writer of “The Vertical Hour.”
*Great writer.*
Tonight’s been a mash up of a bunch of things I have to do.
I’ve been tweeting to connect with my followers on Twitter while scoping out and responding to film production prompts, reading a book on pitching with some of the absolute best ideas I’ve heard, getting my fire reignited.
Before I decided not to take the advice of a producer who wanted to produce the larger film (GLO), I musta pitched three hundred, even more people while promoting the short film version at public festivals, on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and via special interest groups in Europe. It won me 15,000 hits on the film’s website, but the hits were after I had closed down my fundraising efforts in disappointment over lack interest. It CAME LATE.
Anyway, all of this, left me completely burned out. So I took a hiatus of close to a year, tried getting back into the workforce instead. My aim, to leave what I do to make ends meet (taking requests for tarot readings on a website).
That didn’t work either, so I began focusing on tightening up the story. Pitching the story here and there, and reassembling the administrative materials needed for this whole thing.
Later tonight I will rework my synopsis, then rewrite my bio. Right now it’s formal and boring, because I felt really self-conscious writing it. How does one sell herself as a writer-director when she’s still getting used to the idea herself? The answer is — awkwardly. Ugh.
Anyway, love to share the synopsis with some of you for your feedback on the story. But I won’t post it here – just send me an email and by Thursday I will include you in a group note with it enclosed.
The rest of the folks I will be inviting to collaborate with me on the project will either get this, or the log line you all were invited to vote on earlier on my blog.
After your feedback. There are a few people who are already on board so I don’t have that many people to approach. But still, the ones I have left are going to be major for me. So help me out you guys!
Along with this, I’ve decided to undertake shooting demo reels for actors. So the ads for first collaborators in that direction will probably go up next week. I’ve decided I will shoot and edit the first ten applicants for free, charge there after. Hopefully this can replace what I do now…
I also begin editing a previous feature screenplay this month, will be punching up the visual design for Glo, and turning my next short film stories (4) into screenplays. To be shot. My goal is to shoot 2 more by September.
But who knows, the website I work on has begun taking half of my commissions (no base pay) and I think I am aged out of the work force. I’ve been sending out a depressing number of resumes over the last couple of months, only to receive bogus replies half the time. Cons.
Anyway this is what I’m up to, so my appearance on WP may continue to be a little irregular.
Still, thanks for remaining interested you guys. I really value my exchanges and connections on here, so I appreciate you all continuing to tune in, even though my participation is now a little spotty.
*Group Hug.*
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No kidding, the ones who actually read the words written here. Pure likers, thank you but this post is for ‘readers.’
*Moment of waiting.*
[Laughs.]
Okay now that they’re gone. Readers, I need your help.
I constructed a few one liners that describe what happens in my (present) film, along with who the character is.
They’re called log lines and I want to choose the one that packs the most punch. If you’re interested in voting email me at writer of pure [at] gmail [dot] com for the password to the next post. Then in a day or so, when I post it, as a password protected entry you can log in and vote. There are 8 choices.
Would you do it?
I love how LA (adians) lol – I dunno what to call em’ – came out to support him. I woulda gone too, but I’m in NY.
But the dad is pretty great (don’t you think)? Notice, he never got down or discouraged in his ideas.
But I’m thankful this filmmaker wandered in there too, this made my day to see.
Archaic Sugar 
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