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received a copy of the Ms. Films DIY Guide to Film & Video in the mail today from Parcell Press . the Guide is an inspiring little 100 page DIY filmmaking info marvel, i plan on selling copies of it at my site and at Date Number One screenings. also received the paper copy of an important document from Matt "Rentals" C. at NWFF in Seattle. my 5/19 - 21 DNO Seattle gig is becoming more & more real every day. it's gonna be officially called the Date Number One World Premiere, i have decided. can't wait to play Seattle! all in all an excellent mail day. time to go get some eggs & coffee @ Tastee Diner, read mail, & then go home & edit! edit! edit! s*u*j*e*w*a

Looks like Elmwood in Berkeley is going to open Sex Addict on Fri: (from Green Cine Daily, comments section of Sex Addict review, posted today ): " I program the Balboa and have become an I AM A SEX ADDICT addict. When Landmark pulled the film I urged other east bay exhibitors to book it and the Elmwood in Berkeley will open SEX ADDICT on Friday. If the movie does strong business it will be interesting to see if Landmark changes their policy. I have a hunch the film buying department, all good folks, were not happy to be pawns in this game. But they don't hold the purse strings on a very big bank account. Posted by: Gary Meyer at April 4, 2006 11:26 AM " Awright, Sex Addict lives in Berkeley! Go Gary Meyer! - Sujewa

In a totally f***ed up development, after the screening has been advertised, Mark Cuban cancels an opening engagement screening of Caveh Zahedi's "I Am A Sex Addict", so says Caveh at his blog . - Sujewa UPDATE 11:59PM Mark Cuban responds to Caveh's post at Caveh's blog. Check that out too, to get more info. on the situation.

Several days ago at my recently retired blog Filmmaking For The Poor I asked a couple of questions: 1) should film festivals share some of the $s they make from a film's screening w/ the makers of that film?, and 2) what are the festivals that do that now? The discussion still continues over there, check it out. - Sujewa

Jewel Greenberg as Missy, the character who goes on a blind date w/ a ninja in Date Number One . photo copyright 2005 sujewa ekanayake/wild diner films It has been a productive & enjoyable S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y here in K-town, Kenfantabulousington, MD. * Edited for a few hours early AM * Did some dayjob work @ the lovely All Books Considered * Had dinner w/ The Amanda * Shot some ext night footage of Kensington, the film needs a few minutes of those * Started a new blog, this blog * Saw the Beastie Boys concert video movie Awesome, I Fucking Shot That! in Georgetown w/ housemate Allie. An interesting movie, in the best sense of the word interesting. A movie u can dance to. Nice to see the Beasties still rocking out after all these years. I see them rocking out even when they are like 75. Jackvalentistyle. Pretty good day all in all. Been Thinking about all the promo work ahead for the Date Number One 5/19 - 5/21 screenings in Seattle @ the Northwest Film Forum (NWFF), been coming up wi

that's me in the green shirt rehearsing w/ dc based actress Jewel Greenberg, we are working on the segment of Date Number One called The Superdelicious Language Lesson (story 5). Jewel is working on learning some French words. i videotaped a French speaker speaking the words, and am playing it back to Jewel in this shot. on the floor is Jim Laughlin's XL1s, which was used to shoot most of Date Number One. photo copyright sujewa ekanayake/wilddiner films 2005 i have too many blogs going * need to simplify, need to focus mostly on blogging about my new movie Date Number One * but from time to time I will want to write about other filmy things, political things, life thingies, so maybe this blog could be an all purpose blog * until Date Number One distro is over i think i'll blog mostly about that project here * it'll take a while to add all links from other blogs & make this blog ready for the public, but the process starts nou!