This Sunday, September 5th, my short film SHOEGAZER screens at Bumbershoot, Seattle’s Music and Arts Festival. Buy one ticket and you’re good for either a day or the whole weekend of film, comedy, theater, visual arts and yeah, music.
Watch my movie at 3:30pm on Saturday in a program called WOMEN IN FILM - then check out HOLE, BILLY BRAGG and WEEZER later that night.
My main man BOB DYLAN headlines Saturday, MARY J. BLIGE headlines Monday and THE DECEMBERISTS, JENNY AND JOHNNY, ANVIL, EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROES, BOOKER T., NEKO CASE and a boatload of other songsters you want to see fill in the weekend.
I’ve been to this festival and it’s a blast. If you’re in Seattle over Labor Day weekend, I highly recommend. And tell my girl Courtney I say hi.
Someone give this girl a little media training, please. Reading my quotes in UCLA’s Daily Bruin makes me realize how unproficient (yeah, it’s a word) I am in (at?) the English language.
If the occasion should ever again arise for someone to interview me, I’ve decided I’m adopting a mysterious persona where I wear shades and stare at the sun, answering only, “…art? There’s no explaining art.”
Witness more of my halting verbal communication skills in the Daily Bruin article about UCLA’s Directors Spotlight. The point of the article being that 9 UCLA short films, including my thesis film SHOEGAZER, are screening at UCLA’s Directors Spotlight this Thursday, June 11th at 7:30 pm at the Bruin Theater in Westwood.
It will be fun, it’s free and there’s a reception afterward. With drinks and stuff. So come. I promise I won’t talk too much.
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…
