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Tell Congress to Rein in DHS Travel Abuses

From ACLU : "DHS travel abuses include: 1. A terrorist watch list with over one million names on it, growing by twenty thousand names per month. 2. Security agents that seize laptops, cell phones, and PDAs as Americans enter the United States, with no suspicion of wrongdoing. 3. Invasive airport scanners that let agents conduct virtual strip searches of passengers. 4. A proposal to have every traveler wear an "electro-muscular disruption" bracelet that airline personnel or marshals could use to shock passengers into submission." Go to the ACLU webpage re: this matter for more information & take action. - Sujewa

The State of Horror

At Horror 101 Armando Valle (one of the bloggers featured in my doc Indie Film Blogger Road Trip ) gets us caught up on the current state of the horror film industry, poses problems and solutions, and talks about the challenges facing indie horror filmmakers. From the article : "We’re not gonna lie to you, fans. Things are bad all over for quality horror cinema. A recent article at Moviemaker.com pointed the current ills of the genre, but let me expand on just how bad the problem is and possible solutions to the problem. As the article pointed out, young horror directors are having trouble cracking the horror audience, the old guard directors like George Romero (although beloved by this commentator) can’t put butts on the theater seats, and Hollywood doesn’t care about the discerning horror fan instead delivering forgettable, terrible PG-13 horror flops one after another. Americanizations and remakes are disappointing fans all over the board. And for the enterprising indie horror

Back to NYC next week for at least one more blogger doc interview

I thought filming on Indie Film Blogger Road Trip was done about a week ago, but not so, heading back on the road - to NYC - to interview Anthony Kaufman next week (along with anyone else on my list who may be available). I've started editing the blogger doc; expect to have it finished by the end of this month or early next month. So next week's road trip will definitely be the last filming session for IFBRT . - Sujewa

Managing the fantabulous DIY filmmaker lifestyle & day job work

I want to have an x amount of $s saved & an x number of my DVDs selling per month, plus debt paid down to an x level, before I quit my day job (and this'll probably take another 2 years or so, to achieve those goals). In the meantime, this is how I am going to manage having a day job & needing to get a lot of filmmaking & related work done: Mon - Thu: Primarily day job work, w/ a couple of hours each day for filmmaking & distribution related work. Fri - Sun: Primarily for filmmaking & related work. With filming happening at most 2 weekends out of a month, usually, so that I will have a day off from everything every couple of weeks. Editing & publicity work can happen on a weekly basis (publicity stuff even on a daily basis) since those two kinds of filmmaking related work is not as intense as filming/shooting. That's the new plan. - Sujewa

How to turn yourself into Batman

Scientific American interviews E. Paul Zehr, "associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do", about his upcoming (October) book Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero . From the interview : " How long would Bruce Wayne have to train to become Batman? In some of the timelines you see in the comics, the backstory is he goes away for five years—some it's three to five years, or eight years, or 12 years. In terms of the physical changes ( strength and conditioning), that's happening fairly quickly. We're talking three to five years. In terms of the physical skills to be able to defend himself against all these opponents all the time, I would benchmark that at 10 to 12 years. Probably the most reality-based representation of Batman and his training was in Batman Begins. Why such a long training time? Batman can't really afford to lose. Losing me

Azazel Jacobs interview

Still have not seen The GoodTimesKid , sounds like something I'd enjoy. Not in a hurry to see Moma's Man (i tend to put off watching family related films, still have not watched 51 Birch Street ; i do however catch the 51 Birch DVD watching me sometimes, from on top of a pile of DVDs in my room), but I hear it is good. Check out this new Village Voice interview article about Jacobs . - Sujewa

Jia Zhangke interview in Village Voice

This interview is from January of this year, but I just got around to reading it. Zhangke's (or is it Jia's? - which one is the last name?) movies sound very interesting. Check out the interview article by Anthony Kaufman at Village Voice . Sujewa

Full Movie - SNEAK PREVIEW - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene And The Mystery Of Immortal Time Travelers

NEW - COSMIC DISCO DETECTIVE RENE (2023) - TRAILER!

The Secret Society For Slow Romance (2022) - available to rent as a new release starting January 1

Werewolf Ninja Philosopher at Vimeo VOD

Reading Material

Indie Film Blogger Road Trip