Avatar Review Part II

Since I’ve already written one Avatar review while I was sober, I decided to take a crack at part two of my “Defense Against Religious Environmentalism” (DARE) writeup whilst under the influence of at least half (if not more) of a bottle of fantastic Malbec from Argentina. If I can stumble through with a modicum of my original thesis under wraps, I’ll consider it a good week.

The Ethiopian American Reviews 13 Months of Sunshine

Check out the Ethiopian American’s review of 13 Months of Sunshine. Some key quotes:
“The American dream is like beauty – it’s in the eye of the beholder. For coffee barista Solomon, his American dream is the opening of one day his own coffee shop in Los Angeles’ Little Ethiopia. For Hanna, a recent Ethiopian immigrant [...]

The Story of My Script

It’s funny. I’m a producer on a feature independent film, but I’m also a writer trying to get a script into development with a different producer, one who has credits and, more importantly, contacts who have the ability to make a movie happen. So it’s surprising to see the business side of things from both [...]

13 Months Screening In DC

The film I edited and am producing, entitled 13 Months of Sunshine, is screening in Washington DC Sunday, September 9 as part of the Ethiopian Millennium Celebration that’s happening all through the month of September.
Check out Helm Magazine’s write-up of the film and the event.

Official Movie Site
13 Months of Sunshine IMDB Profile

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie DVD Giveaway

In case the title wasn’t obvious enough, Fringeblog, in cooperation with FranksReelReviews.com, is giving away multiple copies of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie FIlm For Theaters (yes, that’s the full name of the movie) DVD’s. I’d like to invite you to enter your information for a chance to win this DVD which I [...]

My First Meeting At Sony Studios

I had my first meeting at Sony the other day. It was a typical lunch meeting in the sense that not a lot was discussed about specific projects, but under the surface, boiling like a cauldron, was a battlefield of wits and egos. And not like normal egos. I’m talking movie executive egos, which aren’t [...]

The Job You Pay To Work

Three fourths of my life is spent in front of a computer. Bad? Wrong? Against nature? I just don’t know. All I know is my bread and butter are composed in pixels, and my bacon has only the faintest smell of ozone as the electronic components of my livelihood dwindle, fade, and spark down into [...]

Days Like Bullet Trains

I’ve decided I dislike spinners.
You like how I just drop you into the middle of my thought process? I’m like a mascot at Disneyland that way. You’re walking along, minding your own business, trying to figure out where the next cool ride is, when all of a sudden I’m in your face, I’m making goofy [...]

Directing Day One

I think I’ve written about directing before, so I’m not sure this will resonate or echo. I’d prefer the former, given echoes’ nature of repetition, versus resonance, which just sounds austere and scientifically grand. As in, his gracious, timbrous voice resonated within the venerated hall of Weapons. Sounds a lot better than, She flung her [...]

Directing a Shoot – More Than Just A Good Eye

It’s been a week of preparation, followed by one glorious day of panicked irrationality, wherein I achieved more ancillary goals than I’d been able to the entire rest of the week combined, simply due to the impetus provided by the stress of knowing that in less than 24 hours I’d be behind the camera again.
Directing [...]