winner winner chicken dinner!
Posted: May 9th, 2011 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |
From 360 | 365 Film Festival’s website:
“For this year’s 360 | 365 George Eastman House Film Festival, we asked audience members to vote on their favorites from the three screenings of short films.
We’re pleased to announce that Amy Adrion’s SHOEGAZER was selected as audience favorite. Shoegazer is a big short film about trust, love, standing up for yourself, the kindness of strangers, and the magic of one long night in the big city.
Congratulations! It was no surprise that audiences found the film as beautifully acted and directed as we on the shorts committee did.”
Thanks for the love 360 | 365 audiences!
360 | 365 Film Festival in Roch-cha-cha, NY (the birthplace of film)
Posted: April 21st, 2011 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |
Super excited SHOEGAZER is screening at the 360 | 365 Film Festival (formerly the High Falls Film Festival) in Rochester, NY.
ADVENTURES & CHALLENGES shorts program
Thursday, April 28th at 6:45pm
Little Theater
Lots of family up there so it should fun. (What am I talking about, I’m a nervous wreck worrying what my Grammy is going to think of the film with all of its cursing, boob flashing and otherwise bad behavior.)
Anywhoo - come on out and watch me sweat! Good times.
Sonoma FF TV interview
Posted: April 21st, 2011 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |I use my hands a lot when I speak. Well, one hand, holding the mic with the other.
The song at the end is the best.
Sonoma Film Festival
Posted: April 3rd, 2011 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |Wine and movies - lovely.
Trying to get myself up to the Sonoma Film Festival this weekend to enjoy it. And meet Louise herself, who’s receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. (dreamy)
SHOEGAZER screens in SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Friday, April 7th at 9:15am
Saturday, April 9th at 9:30pm.
POWfest Press
Posted: April 3rd, 2011 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |Thanks for the great press POWfest!
“Shoegazer”: Perhaps the most accomplished dramatic short in the fest is this well-acted entry about a no-nonsense bartender stuck with the chore of tending to a drunk, abandoned high school girl.”
- OREGON LIVE
“The most compelling and polished film in the bunch is Amy Adrion’s Shoegazer, about a female bartender who looks after a drunk teenage girl found in the bathroom after closing. Shoegazer is Adrion’s UCLA film thesis, and contains originality and aesthetics evocative of Miranda July.”
- WILLAMETTE WEEK, Portland, OR
Calling all my ladies (and men) up in Portland
Posted: March 10th, 2011 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |SHOEGAZER screens at the Portland Women’s Film Festival this Sunday, March 13, at 12 noon.
I attended POWfest when my short THE HOME OF SPLIT PEA SOUP screened there a few years ago and had a blast. Thrilled to be back with SHOEGAZER.
What’s up, Omaha?!
Posted: March 2nd, 2011 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |
Tomorrow at 8:15pm SHOEGAZER screens as part of the Drama Shorts program in the Omaha Film Festival.
Shorts - Drama - 104 minutes
Screens Thursday, March 3 at 8:15pm
The Secret Friend directed by Flavio Alves
In That Moment directed by Shripriya Mehesh
The Quartet (Lecon de Tenebres) directed by Sarah Arnold
Eulogy Maker directed by Leslie Langee
Shoegazer directed by Amy Adrion
Lost For Words directed by Sean Wainsteim
Kitty Kitty directed by Michael Medaglia
The Foal directed by Josh Tanner
The Cortege (El Cortejo) directed by Marina Seresesky
I know nothing about the other films, but considering the short that won the Academy Award on Sunday screens in their comedy program, I’m going to go ahead and say they’re all pretty great.
And for only 6 bucks, what have you got to lose?
Incidentally, the guy who made this little piece of genius was born in Omaha.
Je’Taime, PARIS, JE T’AIME
Thank you, DGA
Posted: November 8th, 2010 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |
The Directors Guild of America selects SHOEGAZER for a Jury Award in their 16th Annual Student Filmmaker Awards (that’s me, back left).
Hoping the prize is a long and illustrious directing career as a member of the DGA. Fingers crossed, people.
Austin & Memphis: tasty BBQ, sweet film festivals
Posted: October 12th, 2010 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |Check out the Austin Film Festival this October 21-28 where SHOEGAZER screens on Saturday, October 23 at 7:15pm and Wednesday, October 27th at 7:30pm.
How can you not love a film festival that treats its filmmakers to this?
That said, the best BBQ ribs I’ve ever tasted were in Memphis, so if you find yourself in Graceland-town in October, check out SHOEGAZER at Indie Memphis on Saturday, October 23 at 1:45pm.
Blues vs. Country
Beale Street vs. 6th Street
Indie Memphis vs. Austin Film Festival
No haters here - SHOEGAZER loves them all.
SHOEGAZER at Bumbershoot
Posted: September 2nd, 2010 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |
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.
I haven’t posted in a while
Posted: July 22nd, 2010 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |On a not entirely unrelated note, introducing (from left to right):
COSBY, the dog, adopted July 2009
LEO, the baby, born March 2010
“The whole process is really a dream job, so at this point, I’m trying to do everything I can to be able to make a living doing that job”
Posted: June 9th, 2009 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |- me, talking about directing. Oy.
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.
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.
My boss made this
Posted: April 16th, 2009 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |I think it is quite cool.
Making the White House happy
Posted: April 14th, 2009 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |
2 years
Posted: April 11th, 2009 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |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
Posted: April 6th, 2009 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |Epic, groovy, electronic and it leaves you kind of sad. In a good way.
I am so pleased…
Posted: March 28th, 2009 | Author: Amy | Filed under: Blog |Thanks for visiting! Trailers, musings, and updates coming soon. How have you waited this long??
