"Middle Ground" @ Take Two Film Festival
/Middle Ground is an official selection of the Take Two Film Festival in New York. The film will screen at 5pm on Sunday, April 12th at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village.
Tickets are $8 per block of film. Visit the festival website for more info: http://www.taketwofilmfestival.com/
More Big News - Nominee for James R. Janowsky Award
/Middle Ground has been nominated for the James R. Janowsky Award at NYU. Feels good to start to find an audience for the film!
Will report back if the film wins!
Big News - Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grant!
/My short film, Middle Ground, has been awarded a Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellows Fund grant. This is super exciting because I can definitely use the money to support the film and the HFPA is the organization that awards the Golden Globes each year.
What makes this even cooler is that the feature film I produced, But Not For Me, also won the same grant! It's been an encouraging week and I'm thankful for that.
Clermont-Ferrand Main Theater Screening of "A Warm Spell"
/Check out that crowd - so big, so cool!!
"A Warm Spell" on the NYU Grad Film Blog
/My first mention on the NYU Grad Film Blog and I didn't even notice it at first! Woo Hoo! Personal goal accomplished.
"The Choi Family" + Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
/This is cool: I was tooling around on Google and discovered the organization Coalition to Stop Gun Violence - a group I connected with in 2013 - had actually discovered online and shared my short film, The Choi Family, a year earlier in 2012. That's neat! I guess in this instance the film found its target audience.
Gotta Keep Going (Newsletter #12)
/Check out my Summer/Fall 2014 Newsletter.
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Sent only 4ish times a year, so no email overload from me.
"A Warm Spell" is going to Clermont-Ferrand!
/A Warm Spell (formerly Koharubiyori) - the film I produced that was shot in Japan in February 2013 - has been accepted to the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival. Clermont-Ferrand is one of the best short film festivals in the world and only 77 films were chosen for the International Competition.
Big congrats to Writer/Director Toshimichi Saito, cast, and crew!
Impolite Company - We're official.
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We in the papers! Website coming very, very soon.
"This Is My Body" Excerpted in German Book
/Got an exciting request today:
A Dr. working at the Institute for Queer Theory in Berlin requested permission to use an excerpt of the script from my film, This Is My Body (co-created by Siobhan O'Loughlin).
The book is currently titled "Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy" and is being published by Routledge.
This is super exciting! This is what it's all about - connecting with people via my work, having an effect on people.
Here's the excerpt that's going to be used:
"This is my body. I do what I want with it.
This is my body. I make my own choices.
This is my body. I use it as a canvas,
tattoo it, decorate it, and pierce it.
I take medicine if I want to and only undergo medical procedures I choose.
I eat what I want, exercise for my health, and wear what I like.
I fall in love with whomever,
fuck/sleep with whomever and marry whomever I choose.
I decide when and how to become a mother.
This is my body, not yours."
"Middle Ground" Friends & Family Screening - 10/16/14
/Middle Ground Friends & Family Screening (if you're reading this, you're invited)
October 16, 2014
8pm
Honey & Poison Performance Series
Two Moon Art House and Cafe - Brooklyn, NYC
Be there. Come. Check it out. Stop by. You don't want to miss it!
Berlinale Talents
/Today, I submitted my application for Berlinale Talents - the talent campus at the Berlin Film Festival. For years I've been wanting to apply, and for one reason or another - eligibility or missing the deadline or not feeling up to the application - I hadn't applied. But this year changes that!
I've been getting a lot of rejections lately, which is nothing particularly new, but I remain (with great effort) undaunted and cautiously optimistic that I will be selected, especially on the strength of the scene I submitted from Middle Ground.
Berlin in February? Glad I don't have anything against the cold!
"All the good things are happening to you!" (Newsletter #11)
/Check out my Winter/Spring Newsletter - lots of good things going on!
Sign up here (on the right) if you want to receive them via email. Sent only 4 times a year, so no email overload from me.
Aidan Rojas, Jason Stefaniak's Brother
/Breaking News: Aidan Rojas is Jason Stefaniak's Little Brother.
"Koharubiyori" - Audience Choice Winner!
/We've been notified that Koharubiyori also won the Audience Choice Award (the favorite of all Graduate Films) at the NYU First Run Film Festival!
This is exciting news - not only do the "critics" like the film, but the people do too!
The film will screen at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles on June 5th.
"Koharubiyori" - Wasserman Winner!
/Toshi Saito's Koharubiyori - a short NYU Graduate Thesis film which I produced - has won third place in the NYU Wasserman Awards!
The film has won a cash prize and will screen at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles in June.
Congrats to Toshi and the entire crew and cast! I'm very proud of the work we did.
That's a Wrap! #BNFM
/On Sunday, March 30th, we wrapped principal photography on the feature motion picture, But Not For Me!
This is the first feature film I've produced starting at the development stage - and the second feature I've produced in the past year.
Next step for #BNFM: Applying for the IFP Narrative Lab, Post-Production, and festival submissions (Sundance and Cannes, here we come!)
