SF Indie Film Festival

Postcard #28 (previously "Postcard") was shown last night at the Opening Party for the 10th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival. While it wasn't on the schedule to screen theatrically, it was still fun to get some exposure, and be recognized by people outside of our general circle of friends. Jon and I are very proud, especially considering it's the only festival we've submitted Postcard #28 to so far.

Additionally, last month Jon and I were interviewed by the Haight Ashbury Beat, a neighborhood newspaper. Here is the article that resulted. What a great way to kick off 2008!

Article

In other news, I'm still stuck in the second act of Golden Gate, my first feature film that I've been writing since late last year. Things are starting to shape up, though- the overly expository narrative has now been trimmed down in order to create a more mysterious feel. Though I threw out a lot of the exposition, it was still important to write that back story, so I could identify character motivations and build a strong base for the narrative. In other words, it wasn't a false start or waste of time in any way- simply... part of the journey.

I've also been experimenting with the Sanyo Xacti HD-1000 , an extremely compact, flash memory based hd camcorder. It's produced some interesting results. Currently, one David FX Stoller is supposed to throw me some music to give the "city sketch" format more structure, as I've found is important to that particular process. I'll post it as soon as it's done, and my thoughts on the format.