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.

Finally some movie news

Looks like Chaointe will play at STIFF this year. Very fun that will be its 4th showing here in seattle. Which is nice because I was thinking of it mainly for a minor web release. For those of you interested in seeing and can't make it to STIFF it will be on the web soon at the www.mockstreetfilms.com site. Merlot received a review on microcinema scene. Tonight I will burn more copies of the movie and finish putting my house in order. Its spring and I need to get organized so I can finish this last short. I have been turned around and upside down for a while now and I don't even use drugs.

Merlot - Review from Microcinemascene

http://www.microcinemascene.com/artman/publish/review_merlot.php

Chaointe at Indieclub

Eric has set up a screening of Chaointe thru indieclub for tonight here in Seattle. I will not be in attendance as I'm still under the weather. If you are interested in attending I will update this blogthroughout the day with times and locations.

Beers and Steering

So Grandpa had a couple of sandwiches in a can hooked up his oxygen tank and drove up some winding roads. Cliffs on the Right and left. Tropical Rain and muddy roads. I love the guy every bush rock bird and vendor has a story and he tells them so well. We went to the northern tip today and were soaked . I did some swimming, reading and visited two caves. Tomorrow we head to the south end of the beach. If anyone ever makes it out here there are a lot of chickens trees and half naked women everywhere. Wierdly enough for as straight as I am I really notice how many chickens there are rather then the non existant bikinies everywhere. We did check out a guava farm and had drinks. I took some wonderful shots that maybe useable for Sans Vie. Tomorrow I think I will buy a place out here to live. Its very different in priorities and pace.