Another Hole in the Head

"Shelter"  screened at Another Hole in the Head (SF Indie Fest) this weekend.
Sound quality held up in their venue - very pleasing.

Sound can be not so great even in first-run movie theaters showing big Hollywood productions. Dialog spoken by skilled (and highly paid) actors can be actually unintelligible.
So thanks Paul Zahnley & Tom Disher at Tom Disher Sound and Music!

Most pleasing (as it should be) was audience reaction - the hoped-for kind, in the right places.
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Sharp Cuts

"Shelter" screening at Sharp Cuts, part of Genre Con in Guelph, Ontario (November 16-18).
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The Canyon

Crewing on The Canyon, a neo-silent film, shot on a hand-cranked 1922 Bell & Howell camera. A restored steam train carried cast and crew into Niles Canyon, where the Congressional Gunfighters of America staged a hold-up.

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"Shelter" screening at the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival (Oct. 18-20).
I like them. They screened my short film Insomnia a few years ago. Yea them!
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NYC Horror Festival

"Shelter" screening at the kick-off party for the NYC Horror Festival, Nov. 7.
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Thriller! Chiller!

"Shelter" at Thriller! Chiller! in Michigan (Oct. 24-26).

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Interviews with The Economist and KGO-TV

Interviews with The Economist and KGO-TV about "Scamorama".

The Economist article reviewed a math-heavy paper positing that email scammers use over-the-top scam 'formats' to weed out people who are scam-proofed and so not worth pursuing. Interesting if unconvincing. I don't share the reviewer's scorn for victims, although it's tiresome to keep telling people "yes it's a scam." Yes! It's a scam!
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Don't Give Up The Ghost

Summer 2012 spent as AD and general flunkey on Don't Give Up The Ghost, a French-American feature film by Jean-Louis Milesi, produced by Belle Moon (http://bellemoonproductions.com/). Highlights included shooting at that temple of cinema, the Castro Theater, on their 'dark' night, and the Berkeley pier.
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"Shelter" finished

Here's the trailer from my recently completed short film, Shelter. A battered woman finds an unusual way out of her relationship problems, in a night of cosmic justice at the pound.
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