“Follow your dreams.” To me, this sentiment is misguided because it’s still rooted in a desire for some external thing “out there” in the future and oftentimes it’s a mentality that comes at the expense of what is already in front of us. For me now, it’s not about searching … Continue reading “FOR WHAT?”
We are all storytellers. We form a narrative in our minds of what had happened, in order to structure, justify, and make sense of what we’ve experienced, particularly those big moments, good or bad. How we first met, why they left me, why I got the award, why I got … Continue reading “STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES”
Shooting some of the scenes in FOR IZZY throughout San Francisco was for me not only a revisiting of my past, but also a rediscovery of a city that I was previously unfamiliar with. When I lived in San Francisco in the early 2000’s, I’m embarrassed to admit that I … Continue reading “YOU GOTTA GIVE ‘EM HOPE!”
When I was in high school, I listened to Cat Steven’s Greatest Hits (http://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-mw0000191886) so much that I practically wore out the tape cassette – the sound degrading until it sounded like AM radio (to anyone born after 1990, what I just wrote might as well be in Chinese). At … Continue reading “THE LENS OF AGE”
Recently, the BBC polled a couple hundred critics from around the world to list their top 10 films since 2000. They then compiled into a top 100 composite. Think of it like a re-calibrated Rotten Tomatoes score, with the benefit of hindsight. The results were surprising, but this time in … Continue reading “WHAT MAKES A FILM GREAT?”
I hate clutter. Recently I’ve been clearing my bookshelves to make room for more. And in separating out the ones I wanted to keep versus the ones I was hoping to sell at The Last Bookstore (http://lastbookstorela.com/), there was a very distinct pattern: I kept my fiction – novels, plays … Continue reading “THE FUTURE OF FILM?”
So I’ve been taking some coding classes in the past while – learning C from the ground up and Python, while brushing up on my HTML and CSS (my knowledge of web design akin to a redneck auto repair – not really knowing what you’re doing, but doing it anyway … Continue reading “IT PAYS OFF SOMEHOW”
During one of our shoot days in San Francisco, we were at Land’s End capturing some insert shots of the main characters, as a big element of the film is that two of the main characters Dede and Laura explore their world through video and photography. It is “meta” in … Continue reading “CAPTURED ALIVE”
We are currently raising funds to cover post-production. Make a difference by contributing now to our campaign! https://igg.me/at/for-izzy/x Films like FOR IZZY are part of a larger narrative in our culture. As a filmmaker, I never set out to write “diverse characters” nor was I prone to any soapboxing of … Continue reading “CONTRIBUTE NOW AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE!”
Over the past month, we’ve been working steadily on getting everything ready in advance of our crowdfunding campaign. I won’t lie. I’m a bit terrified. I don’t like asking for money. And this whole crowdfunding thing is new to me (and to us). But we do feel we have something … Continue reading “GETTING READY FOR THE CAMPAIGN”