ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

Dimensional Portal, short film # 1 in the 50 Short Films About America series , is done. Also Rock Collection, short film # 1 in the 50 Short Films About Kensington series , is shot & is awaiting some titles in order to be complete. So, 2 down basically, and 298 to go; there are 6 series of short films planned with 50 films per series (find out more about this project here ) totaling 300 short films in all. I expect the entire project to take about 5 years (it could happen a lot faster, but let's just say 5 years for now) or until the end of 2012 to complete. I am digging this gigantic short films project because some shorts can be made literally for $0 (or you can spend some money on them & make them extra fancy) and you are able to explore new things, try new (or at least new-to-you) filmmaking approaches through shorts (not a lot of money tied in shorts, also they are not as "serious" as features, as far as your overall filmmaking resume is concerned - thus mor

Read about it here ! - Sujewa

I started a new short films project, read about it at the Wild Diner Films blog . - Sujewa

Read all about it here . Thanks GreenCine Daily for the link. - Sujewa

Was kind of under the weather this weekend, took it easy, home & in bed pretty much the whole weekend, watched a lot of The Office; good show to watch when you are not feeling too well :) No, really, there is hope for Hollywood/mainstream TV when it/them can turn out a pretty decent show like The Office. So, to show my appreciation, here is some Office related blogging. Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor in The Office) interview at Radar Online . Also, Kaling blogs here (as Mindy Ephron). - Sujewa

Read about it at the Wild Diner Films blog . - Sujewa

This week's Washington City Paper has an article in which a judge of the DC Shorts film festival tells us about his experience. Here is the first paragraph from the article: "When I tell people I judged films for this year’s DC Shorts Film Festival, their first reaction is, “Cool!” Their second reaction is more circumspect. I don’t own a television. Or any movies. Why was I qualified to judge?" Read the rest here . Lots of inside-film-festival entertainment for those who may be into that kinda thing. - Sujewa