Sans Vie, Vita di Amore and updates

Sans Vie Premier was wonderful. We had a sold out crowd and a beautiful after party.
The last few months I have laid low and have been taking some much needed time on the home front while working on the next project.

Vita Di Amore
Last weekend opinionated folks gathered for wine and food to look over the grammatically challenged third draft of Vita di Amore.

This will be my second attempt at a feature film. Sans Vie was my first and in my own goals I set it burst through any measurements of success I had laid out. Sans Vie was written as a 15 page short and quickly turned into a 24 minute movie. We premiered the featurette as such but then I made the decision to turn it feature. Although funds were depleted at the time it was to hit all of the festivals we still got some festival play but what happened outside of that was inspirational.

Sans Vie screening outside of me were being planned by others. Dinner screenings, potlucks a screening of the movie in a Castle in France. It is an intimate drama and was seen in intimate settings.

I have individuals stop me even today and say “I finally saw your movie and I loved it”

It is quietly circulating around. I have been approached by two distributors without even trying and think this is the next step for Sans Vie.

Vita di Amore is a follow up to the world we created in Sans Vie.

Where Sans Vie is quiet, introverted and takes time to stylize atmosphere, Vita di amore is fierce with visuals, the tempo is drunk and on fire. Everything from Pink Gorillas to drunk Santa clauses to drag queens in kissing booths have been put into this script.

The read was a success. This romantic story of Nicola a woman looking for love even in her own shadow will be a fun carnival to create.

Next up on the to do list is the re-write then a final cold read with the principle cast.

Tickets go on sale first week of May

Sans Vie big Premier is 6/13 at 8pm at the Jewel Box Theatre. This will sell out quickly so stay tuned for information on getting tickets to this event.

Sans Vie accepted to STIFF

SANS VIE has been in the works for about 4 years now and is finally going to be displayed for everyone to see. This will be a celebration for everyone who has worked on the project to see the full length feature on the big screen with cast, crew, friends, family, and local film lovers. Dates are on the way and I look forward to seeing you there. In the meantime here is a new trailer created by Sten Ryason

Sans Vie Film Festival submission update

Sans Vie was released on DVD to Cast and Crew in November and since then has been submitted to the following festivals:

Seattle True Independent Film Festival
ArtsFest Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
Palm Beach International Film Festival
San Francisco Interntional LGBT Film Festival
Sci Fi London International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
USA film Festival
SoCal independent Film Festival
MountainFilm in Telluride
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Tulsa United Film Festival
San Francisco United Film Festival

Every two weeks I will be submitting to a few more festivals next up:

Austin film Festival
Tacoma Film Festival
New film makers

Responses will be coming back from these festivals starting this spring. Stay tuned for updates on screenings for Sans Vie.

Happy Birthday Keegan, Laurel Fedora and Myself

PISCES PARTY
many more pictures to come I am sure.

Last big event until a Sans Vie screening and it was done with a Bang. If you missed it we will have another Pisces party next year....for now just hear the stories from around town.

keegan smith and myself outside ouch my eye studio

Myself, Cait Willis, Keegan

Justin Smith and Dixi Lee

Prince of Seattle and the Duke of Downtown or so they say

Cait, Laurels mommacita, me and Michelle

Fedora and myself outside the studio

dance floor section

Upcoming Events - Pisces Party March 14th

If you were at lasts years you know you dont want to miss this. Its four pisces coming together to shake down Seattle with dance, booze and maheym. Join us at Ouch my eye studio. Door is free but we ask you bring some booze to help with the bar.

Sans Vie Wrap party review

Olgar busting a serious move on the dance floor

The night was a good mix of friends, cast and crew and people coming out to support the project.
Emmett Montgomery took to the stage and disturbed us with his wonderfully orginal humor.

I then came up played some clips from the movie and answered questions at the end. Finally the audience of about 80 or 90 dispursed downstairs to mingle, dance and have drinks. Here are some photos, for your enjoyment.

Keegan and Laurel Staying alive 2009 style

Dixi Lee chatting it up with guests

Amber, Justin and myself taking a moment for the camera

Sans Vie and festivals

Sans Vie has been submitted to Seattle International Film festival and later this week we will submit to the LA international Film festival. Stay tuned for more news.

Sans Vie Wrap party February 27th

Justin Smith Matthew Morris Keegan Smith

Last call at the Sans Vie Wrap party

The French district of Seattle has been built. It has been a journey of art, drinking, making love to the city and oh so many successful relationships. Making a film is a grand adventure. come commiserate or celebrate the wrapping of a four year long project.

Sans vie was written in June of 2005 when I was still sane and able to talk about things like religion and politics. Back then I could speak only a little French and kind of write English. Today my grammar is worse then ever and I know even less French, but the movie is beautiful.



I am very proud of what was accomplished and feel it will do very well.

Unmasking Jolies' Ghost

Well we shot Jolies flash back with the amazing and talented Dylan Thomas and Asher Morris. The two were pro's and did an excellent job. Dylan plays a young Jolie(Melissa Roberts) and Asher plays Daniel the neighbor boy trying to get her to come out and play with a pup.
We ran about an hour over on time and I don't think that is to bad considering we were working with children, pups and French.

Andy McCone came in for the second part of our shoot to do the scene where Jolie breaks up with her online boyfriend. We shot this in French and English just for the sake of insurance. He commented that it was like taking acid in a room where no one else is. Andy was professional and he has just a great charisma about him that I truly enjoy being around.

After the shoot we had fairly brief impromptu crew meeting. Eric, Stefan and Mark are truly some very talented individuals that I feel very privileged to work with. Jason and myself seem to have the same ability to gather people to a project and keep things rolling. Everyone is extremely skilled and hard working. I definitely am appreciative and as always very honored that people with such talent come together to work on projects I have set up.

My hopes for the future will be to actually.... pay everyone. With that comes investors and feature projects. First things first Sans Vie and Unmasking.

Speaking of which I did watch a demo reel of unmasking and I have to say I'm blown away. That project just seemed to fall together and what I have seen so far in post it seems to have a very complimentary potential to Sans Vie. Both of those releasing in March will be a lot of fun.

Ghost in the Machine Post has been put on hold as I have run out of time on that video. I will complete it but I don't know if it will be by the October 20th deadline.

Other notes of interest, we are no longer working with Neodandi but instead moving forward with a more feasible wardrobe solution.

We had a rehearsal last night. Dixi and Melissa are just so perfect for these roles. Melissa worked with Margaretta on her translations and I'm confident in the end this will be in French. Oh yes and Margaretta after reading the script gave me a thumbs up on it being true to French Story telling.

I'm now researching grip equipment working on production boards and various other sleep stealers. Its a blast.

New Sans Vie Promo

Merlot Reviewed on Film Threat

http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=8917

Masquerade of Art June 3rd

Turkish March

A man with Obessisive compulsive disorder sets his alarm clock.
This is a micro short I wrote in about 5 minutes. I like this one because its short to the point and a comedy. Its in the same genre comedy as Mr. Bean episodes and I actually cast the composer Richard Temple to play the part of Brandon. Richard has actually moved to LA and it looks like I will be flying down there to shoot this short. This will be a great opportunity to not only hang out with Richard and work with him, which is always fun, but this will be a good chance for me to check out a little of LA. I will know more later this month. Things are starting to look busy for spring.

Chaointe Copies

I finally was able to get my pc back online and get more copies of Chaointe burned. Last night I burned 10 copies and will send them out today to various people who were part of the project and some online review sites. I need to burn a few more for festivals and then I can close the Chaointe Chapter. Next chapter the Mockstreet Masquerade.