iPhone Apps?

February 23, 2010

Here’s a link to a blurb about Sally Potter’s movie, Rage, with Jude Law and Judy Dench, that came out last September -
Indie Movie Releases Via iPhone App – Is This The Future?
Note to self:  Find out how this effort has turned out so far.
Has anyone out there read about this, had any [...]

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Meet the Producer Karin Chien

February 4, 2010

Meet Karin Chien, currently nominated for the 2010 Independent Spirit Producers Award and producer of THE EXPLODING GIRL, which is being distributed by Oscilloscope in the next month.
Karin Chien is an independent film producer committed to uncompromising visions that challenge conventional paradigms. Karin works to encourage international dialogue and foster community through her films, distribution [...]

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Workin’ on the website…

January 27, 2010

Been working all day inputting content on the website for Lost in Sunshine.  I’m excited, punchy, thrilled, and suddenly filled with doubt.  What if I/we have been looking at/working on this for so long that things about it that seem “of course” to us are inscrutable to strangers?
Can you tell I showed it to my [...]

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Money, money, money

January 21, 2010

We’re fully three weeks into 2010, and I have eight more weeks to raise $375,000 to shoot Lost in Sunshine (LIS) by our target production period of late April through most of May, and pay for its post-production.  And, that’s not the final sum of money I still need to raise for the whole life [...]

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Website Aspirations

December 29, 2009

I want some of Ree Drummond’s inexhaustible energy and ideas to rub off on me.  She’s the creator of The Pioneer Woman website, originally a straight-forward blog that I first came upon almost three years ago.  If you go visit her online empire now, you might not appreciate just how much she’s expanded from her [...]

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Inspirations… Love this

December 3, 2009

This summer, I came across the text of this speech to incoming Freshmen at the Boston Conservatory of Music by Karl Paulnack, the head of the Music Department, and was moved by it.  He’s speaking to musicians, but his words and insights speak to all artists, I feel.  Fortunately, another blogger has secured permission to [...]

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Keeping myself informed and inspired

November 22, 2009

Went down to Austin and spent that quality time with Michelle, our fabu line producer of Lost in Sunshine.  Yep, got some INFORMATION about our budget.  Now I need that inspiration.  Ha.
Scrimping everywhere we can imagine, without sacrificing production quality, we’re still 10% over our budget at this point.  And, my creative team (DP, director, [...]

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In my spare time…

November 3, 2009

I’ve held a long-time fantasy about funding a philanthropy in the future.
Over the past decade+, as I’ve built up my canon of experience as a filmmaker/producer, there have been so many times that I’ve sought out grants, fellowships, and/or awards-with-stipends to support me in my growth.  Lord knows, I’ve needed the money.  I estimate that [...]

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Still here!

October 29, 2009

A couple fabulous things have kept me from posting lately.
One, I’ve worked on a consulting gig for some clients producing a Western, which I’ll address in a different post.
Two, we’ve attracted our first investor for Lost in Sunshine.  Yay!
With our first commitment of equity, we’ve had to fully set in motion all the legal and [...]

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It’s not just a movie; it’s a show

September 15, 2009

Here’s a rundown of what I’ve been up to:
Meetings, meetings, and more meetings with our fabulous web team, Shad and Ari, for the upcoming launch of our official website for Lost in Sunshine.  We are looking at going “live” by the end of October now.
And here’s a distinction: it’s not just a site for a [...]

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