Ian Harrison
A friend of mine passed away a year ago yesterday. He worked at 911 media, teaching classes, organizing stuff.
He was an asset to his community, and we miss him.
Urbanity – Rejection
I should start getting used to this…
Dear Morgan,I
want to thank you for your submission of ”Another Name for Fate” and
“Still Life of Lacey” for CSIF and Truck Gallery’s “Urbanity”
collaboration in September 2009.We
received over 140 submissions this for this call and the jury had a
difficult job of going through all the submissions to narrow it down to
47 films. Unfortunately your films were not selected for screening in
this program. Thank you for submitting to the call though, and I hope
you will keep us in mind for any future works you may create on film.If
you are interested, we also have a call out for our annual $100 Film
Festival, which screens short films (under 22 min) with film prints
(Super 8 and 16mm). We are currently accepting submissions for the
festival and the submission deadline will be December 1, 2009. If you
are interested in finding out more information about the festival, you
can take a look at last year’s festival website: www.csif.org/festival. Also please feel free to e-mail me with any questions. I have attached an entry form with this e-mail. If
you’re interested, the Urbanity project will run through
September-October 2009. You can get updated information from the
website here. More information will be posted there as the event moves closer.Thanks again for submitting to the Urbanity call and I look forward to seeing work from you in the future.Best Wishes,Melanie Wilmink
Still Life
We have just finished production on Still Life (click on the link to see a slide show and some behind the scenes footage) a short film. I am very very very excited about what we shot. The crew we assembled was amazing, dedicated, creative, positive, and hard working. I am totally humbled by the experience.
I was able to work with Garet Carson, a local actor who is very skilled and a lot of fun to work with. I’ve always wanted to work with him again since working on the movie Stolen Images (I wrote it and Assistant Directed it). This character is loosely based on the character he played in that movie. His acting style was so low key and real, he was able to really breathe life into the character. Garet was also in the movie, The Yankles, which is in post production right now. Keep an eye out for it.
Cecily Crow was our lead actress. I have never made a movie where the protagonist was female, and this has been a sort of study in that. Cecily is an amazingly dedicated actor. I have never met anyone who took their work more seriously, and had more fun stretching the limits of what was possible. She is currently in the play Sherlock’s Secret Life, playing in Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast.
Les Sterling was our lighting designer. He has many years of still photography experience. I was worried that having such an experience designer would limit what we were able to do, or that he would be inflexible. I am glad that the opposite was true. He was willing to go out on a limb and really take some big risks. Les works for the Seattle Internation Film Festival when it’s happening and works for a produciton company.
Adam Mahoney was our DP. I believe this is the first narrative movie he has ever shot. I feel like this was an asset rather than a liability. The depth that he delved into the script was amazing. He came to the table with a lot of ideas and enthusiasm. In my book those are two of the most important things any person on a project can have. His dedication was unending. Sadly (for me) he is on his way to Chapman in Orange County to study directing.
Amanda Watne was our production designer (her reading of the script was incredible). Katie Izak was our 2nd AD. Katie Gregg co-produced and recorded the sound. Cassidy Dimon co-wrote, co-produced, and was our 1st AD. Brad Hutchinson produced the movie.
the Journal of Short Film.
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It’s In the P-I
It’s In the P-I, a short film I produced and edited about the closing of Seattle’s oldest newspaper will be shown at the Hollywood theater in Portland OR.
This movie was made for the 2009 Documentarty Challenge. It was directed by my good friend Bradley Hutchinson and was written by the wonderful people at the Common Language Project (who are in Pakistan right now reporting on the situation in that country).
You can see a few blog posts about It’s In the P-I it here.
Doc Challenge Preview screening
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97212
(503) 281-4215
7PM