Category Archives: self-referential
Exercise for the new year
My friend Regina Gelfo sent this to me in the first few days of 2010 as an exercise to help me establish and put clarity into the year that had passed. She found it somewhere on the internet, not sure where. It’s been helpful to me, and perhaps it might be to you, as well. 2010: […]
‘Purpose of Film Festivals’ on WorkBook Project’s New Breed
Just a heads up that my Purpose of Film Festivals essays have been published on the WorkBook Project’s New Breed- which I am unduly geeked out about. Go check out #1 here and #2 here. If you’re unfamiliar with New Breed – it’s a blog on WorkBook Project that captures stories from the front lines […]
Me explaining crowd-sourced funding on too much coffee
Courtesy of the folks at Film Courage, I bring you my hyper-caffeinated explanation of crowd-sourced funding for filmmakers.
Announcing: Cinema Speakeasy
Announcing a new, invite-only, monthly film series – initially in Los Angeles – which aims to: showcase newer independent films that are doing the DIY Distribution rounds support the filmmakers by aligning them with new audiences outside the industry give potential non-industry audiences exposure to this new wave of content in an accessible and hip […]
My future husband is a euro-trash looking drug baron’s son
Hilarious description of what Mexican mafia lords are MEANT to look like (peasants with money), as opposed to what some of them DO look like (eastern european nouveau rich cheese meets sensitive intellectual meets HOT, as above): “They’re harder to identify because they don’t look like typical drug traffickers,” he said. “You can’t detect them […]
I wanna be reborn as this guy…
‘Every week for the past 30 years, I’ve hosted a Sunday dinner in my home in Paris. […] I hold the salon in my atelier, which used to be a sculpture studio. The first 50 or 60 people who call may come, and twice that many when the weather is nice and we can overflow […]
Thought.
I think we should do with the word ‘friend’ what the eskimos did with the word ‘snow’.
