what's happening
Produce: Executive producing 13 Months of Sunshine, our first independent feature currently playing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Go to official site here! Developing scripts and raising funds for other projects - recently produced on Stained, an award-winning film for this year's 168 Festival.
Business: editmentor.com. Distribution of film/tv dailies and editing insights. The site's now up, the storefront will be open very soon!
Edit: I no longer edit. At least not 10+ hours a day for pay. Here's why. Okay, some times you gotta do whatcha gotta do...
4.24.08It's been a crazy last couple months, mainly by virtue of collaborating on a super-compressed schedule with our team on Stained, a ground-breaking, award-winning short film. The actual shooting and editing took place within one week for this year's 168 Festival, and it won 9 awards.
Most notably, Stained is the very first film shot on the ultra-high-definition RED One camera ever to win any film festival anywhere. Period.
Check out more details on the Stained page.
3.27.08
Let's face it... I'm officially one of those people. You know, those people who update their websites once every other month. In times past I inwardly tsk-tsked at the thought.
Well, no longer. Let's just say that if the reason is that I'm working my tail off on other projects, then so be it. Although be warned, I'm hatching a plot to more actively stay in touch with my contacts. Critical stuff, that.
1.24.08
Happy New Year, y'all. A little late - and still sincere. This will continue to be a fantastic year. 1st big reason:
We have premiere! 13 Months of Sunshine had its international premiere this month in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia!
According to our director/producing partner, the premiere was a smashing success with over 100 members of the local media attending - tv, radio, magazines, you name it - plus hundreds of other fans. It is currently the only Ethiopian movie in the city playing in theaters every day. May it run long, repeatedly, and successfully.
Next phase: continue building the press kit and marketing strategy. We are planning a limited domestic release of the film, preferably via domestic distribution group.
Other news - soon to come, an e-commerce site that will offer instruction and products not available anywhere else. No one else is doing this. It's gonna be good.
This is the year of expansion and opportunity, both for me, my partners, and my people. It's gonna be good.
12.12.07
One of the gutsiest things I've done in a while: adding the ship burning page to the ol' website a couple weeks ago. And then I realized - to really be serious, I can't just randomly post a page on a website and expect the world to take notice. In fact, not publicizing said page is, well... just plain weak.So I sent out an email to almost anyone who has ever hired me as an editor and said "don't hire me anymore."
Yep. I did it.
Must confess, my pulse quickened when I looked at that list of names and moved the mouse towards the "send" button. Seriously, that list comprised the bulk of my professional life in Hollywood. Heck, the bulk of my professional life period.
Last week I turned 29 years old. A 19-year-old friend emailed me: "Happy birthday. I had no idea you were so Old!"
Come again?
Odd capitalization aside, the quickly-approaching end of my twenty-somethings puts a new spin on the whole "age in Hollywood" thing for me. I've always looked young, and for years I worried about producers walking into the bay and wondering if the "kid" at the editing console had a clue what he was doing. Well, I eventually stopped worrying since producers hired me over and over and over. Then consider how Hollywood loves to dangle the career carrot in front of you such that your years of slaving away during the week and partying hard on the weekends stretch an extra 10-15 years longer than they might have otherwise. "39 is the new 29, baby... you got YEARS before you need to settle down!" Contrast that with friends and family members who were married with multiple kids BEFORE age 29. Ohhhh, damn...
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(don't get me wrong, I really want a family - I'm just not used to thinking of myself with a wife and kids). Then the fact that some people will always see you as a kid, even when you're 59 and they're 79.Ehh, what the hell... so it goes.
By God's grace, I am who I am. Here's a picture from a previous life.
There's more news. It happened last year. You can find it in The Vault.