Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Gravity picks up Momentum

A friend pointed out that I have been very lax about keeping this blog up-to-date. So, here's a pictorial overview of what's been going on the past few months, and let's see if I can edit the blogger html to get these photos in the right places:

BEST LGBT AWARD - AOF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, PASADENA - July 31, 2008




Oh good, it worked. If you don't always want the photo glued to the top of the post, then take the style ="..." out of the img tag, then copy and paste the image to wherever you want it to occur within the text. Okay, enough html blogger hints. Back to the overview.

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE AWARD - WILDWOOD BY THE SEA FILM FESTIVAL, NJ - Sept.28, 2008


This award was completely unexpected and totally cool, because we won over 'Romance and Cigarettes', which was written and directed by John Turturro, executive produced by the Coen Brothers, and starred Christopher Walken, Susan Sarandon, and James Gandolfino. Considering that I was profoundly inspired by 'Raising Arizona', just to play in the same festival with the Coen Brothers was an honor. Also playing at the festival was 'David and Fatima' starring Martin Landau and Tony Curtis. Oh, I am going to milk this award for every drop of prestige and then some.

This was also a great event because my good friends Jack and Diane Adams attended, and also Mac's parents Jim and Bonnie Rankin. When they introduced themselves to the audience as Mac's parents, the audience gave them a round of applause!

AAUW (American Association of University Women) BENEFIT SCREENING, SANTA CRUZ - Oct. 4, 2008

This was a great screening because we helped raise money for the scholarship program of the Santa Cruz chapter of the AAUW. About 150 tickets were sold. I flew up Mario, Michael, Lexie, and Mac to appear at the screening, and they received a lot of positive attention from the audience, especially after the screening. They got to sign autographs! Afterward we went to a seafront bar and observed the sociological behavior of single people.

This screening was organized by Craig's mother, Phyllis Edmundson, who labored for months to orchestrate and promote it.

UPCOMING FILM FESTIVALS

Other Venice Film Festival - Oct. 12, 2008 @ 3 PM
The Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Avenue, Venice


La Femme Film Festival - Oct. 17, 2008 @ 6 PM
Fine Arts Theater, 8556 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills



Red Rock Film Festival, Springdale UT - Nov. 14 @ midnight & Nov. 15 @ 10:10 a.m.