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Blog by NYC indie filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake. Since 2006 or so. Latest epic indie film project - making and releasing 53 scripted fiction features in 53 months - starting Dec 2025! - the 53 Spaceships film series project. This blog will have indie film news plus items about sci-fi films, TV shows, and of course info on the 53 Spaceships new movie and series of films!
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Showing posts from August, 2006
Date Number One NYC Premiere THU 8/31, 9 PM Pioneer Theater
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Date Number One features 5 minority actors in lead roles :: It is fairly easy to write interesting characters of ANY ethnicity, race or gender
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Screening Venues Anywhere in the US, Get In Touch If You Want to Check Out Date Number One for Screening(s) w/ Director in Attendance
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on the other hand, not being based in NYC & making indie films elsewhere has its benefits
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every US indie filmmaker's got two homes: 1 where they are from/live & 2 New York City :: next stop, Brooklyn
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6 More Days until DATE NUMBER ONE NYC Premiere on Thu 8/31 @ Pioneer Theater!
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This week in Seattle's Real Change: Katrina survivor, transgendered policy in jails, community station KBCS, slavery scars, against death penalty
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Pioneer Theater Intersection, NYC, August 2006 :. pic 1 from 8/06 nyc trip
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Hey Newspapers, do full reviews of movies that only play for one night, just the way you write about bands that only play for one night
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Promised Date Number One screener DVDs will be mailed out this week
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! 8 More Days !!! until DATE NUMBER ONE NYC Premiere Thu 8/31 Pioneer Theater :: TIX ON SALE NOW
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Tips on getting your film out in over a dozen theaters DIY style from Lance "Head Trauma" Weiler
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So, in '94 Hal Hartley says: "But think about filmmakers distributing their films themselves, directly from the computer", and then Jean-Luc Godard...
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Date Number One screening # 11: Thu, September 28, 7:30 PM Kensington Row Bookshop
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New York City to see a lot of indie film DIY distribution action in the 2nd half of 2006
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Date Number One hungry for more NYC screenings :: IFC blogstar AW conducted interview happening :: Sigiri :: Day 3 in NYC over, all went well
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The Philosophy of DIY+ (DIY plus) Distribution: An Introduction
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Quick notes from Date Number One 8/31 show promo trip to NYC: Day 1
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blogging from the nyc trip: figured out how to get to grand central station from Ho-Ho-Kus
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Today to 8/31 This blog's gonna turn into a little club for ppl who are gonna attend the 8/31 screening
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9 screenings of Date Number One: $1690 (venue cost only), showing your film to customers on a big screen 9 times: you know, like they say, priceless
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New publicity tool found: PR Web :: "50 million page views each month" they say
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Hot South Asian woman invited me to a party in NYC :: Several hot South Asian women to attend Date Number One NYC premiere on 8/31
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Misunderstanding over. 3rd I NY no longer taking credit for the 8/31 Pioneer screening
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Ad for Date Number One in NYC on 8/31 is up on Anthony Kaufman's indieWIRE blog
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Matt Zoller Seitz's debut feature HOME is now available through Netflix
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Background info & analysis of current water access triggered fighting in Sri Lanka
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NYC trip Sat 8/12 - Mon 8/14 :: Am now open to considering all collaborative production & distribution options (film fests,indiewood,hollywood, etc.)
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From Nonviolent Peaceforce: EMERGENCY ACTION REQUEST: Immediate Ceasefire and Respect for International Humanitarian Law in Sri Lanka
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Jeff Krulik, Amir Motlagh, Brian "The Publicist" Geldin, Variety article, iW blog ad, DNO 8/31 - 9 PM Pioneer
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a whole lot of JUMPING OFF BRIDGES screenings coming up
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It's creating visual promo material time. Item 1: small ninja image for web
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Hired a publicist (!???) to help promote the 8/31 Date Number One screening in NYC
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Duuudddde, 2/3 of The Maryland New Wave is in the Filmmaker 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2006 list!
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