My boss made this

I think it is quite cool.

Making the White House happy

2 years

That’s the time it took to finish my UCLA thesis film, SHOEGAZER.  Yesterday, exactly 2 years to the day after the first day of shooting - I finished the film!!

In those 2 years I also worked on two Academy Awards shows, filmed escorted tours throughout Croatia, Greece, and Italy for the Busabout travel company, shot Uniworld river cruises that visited cities along the Seine, Rhine, Danube, Rhone rivers, I produced a short for the AARP and worked on numerous excellent UCLA films, taught high school kids video production with the esteemed Dave Kelly, finished classwork in the MFA film program at UCLA, traveled to Portland, Memphis, NY, Vegas, Rochester, Houston and Park City, Utah, worked at a television development website and as Miranda July’s assistant, and I got engaged.  Along with a bunch of other stuff.

What does it mean, this long and tangled road?  I have no idea.  But I’m pleased as punch.  I hope you get to see the film.  And I hope you enjoy it.

Here’s a bit of what finishing SHOEGAZER looked like…

The last one’s my favorite.  I’m not gonna lie.

HUGE thank you to Wildfire Post Production Studios and Gabe Serrano who mixed my film - and to Richard Flores at Primary 3 who did the color correction.  Post production is a bear - it’s the end of the road, you’re broke and tired, it’s extremely expensive and often fraught with technical difficulties - but these guys knocked it out of the park.  Without their skill, enthusiasm and generosity the film wouldn’t be what it is.  I am very grateful.

Now I have to get a feature in gear to pay these guys back with more work for real money.  The next adventure begins…

Purple Rain for 2009

Epic, groovy, electronic and it leaves you kind of sad.  In a good way.