Headed out to Castro Valley for the first cast and crew screening of Dan Pavlik's comedy feature, 'Nominated.' I appear briefly as Keith, a townie paintball enthusiast. Super fun to see the final product and catch up with the cast.
 
 
Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Makeout Room to check out Tacos de Pescado and the rest of the program.  May the force be with you.
 
 
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One marathon session at the final hour is sometimes the way to go.  So many thanks to Willy and Marco for helping me bring this song into being for Annette Bohle's "Tacos de Pescado" project, directed by Quinne Brown and edited by Erin Coker.

There's a premiere screening on Tuesday, March 2nd at the Makeout Room.  Donation at the door.  Other projects to screen.  I'll post a link once it hits the web.

 
 
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The cutting-edge dystopian indie thriller that could continues to snowball its way through the festival circuit.  Having just played to raves at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, it's on to Rooftop Films, an outfit with the motto "Underground Movies Outdoors."

If you're in Brooklyn next Friday, it's the place to be.

 

Canary Migrates

03/30/2009

 

Alejandro Adams creates a mysterious dystopia in his organ-harvesting-themed creepy funny twisting feature, "Canary". After screening at San Jose's Cinequest festival early this month, the next stop is New York's Migrating Forms festival (formerly the New York Underground Film Festival).  9:30, Thursday, April 16th at the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan's East Village.

If you're interested in more press or an interview with the director, check out the Canary website.

 
 

Variety published a review of Canary this week. 

 
 

Say that five times fast!  Moonlight picked up the Gold Kahuna Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2009 Honolulu International Film Festival.

Screenings take place between March 6th and 9th in Hawaii.  Check it out if you're on Oahu.  I play "Dimitri," a not-so-balanced customer.

 
 

Moonlight Sonata, Celik Kayalar's indie feature in which I play one very dark scene (not for kids), has been accepted into the 11th Annual California Independent Film Festival in Livermore this coming April 16 - 19. 

Tickets go on sale March 16.  Moonlight screens at 5pm on Saturday, April 18th at Vine Cinema in Livermore.  For more info on the festival, click here.

For a taste of my scene (not for kids), click the first link above, navigate to "gallery," and click on the second picture from the left on the bottom row. 

A whole bunch of my old pals from the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking also appear.  Betrayal, violence, twists, revenge.  Ahhh...

 
 

Alejandro Adams is an amazing director.  Canary is a dystopian sci-fi feature dealing with organ theft.  I play an agressive TV producer.  Ensemble cast, improvised performances, great chemistry.



Canary screens Sunday, March 1 at 6:30 and on Saturday, March 7 at 4:00 at the San Jose Rep.  Get your tickets online, at the door or by calling 408.295.3378. 

Canary has also now been added to IMDb - check it out.

Update:  both screenings were well-attended and great fun on a very big screen.  Thanks to those of you who made it out to support and enjoy!

 

Oscar Night

02/26/2008

 

Attended an after-screening party for a class of filmmakers completing a program at SFSDF.  Shortly after the party begain, on came the awards show.  I'd missed the screening, but got to see one of the two films I was in on a director's computer.

I'd been really hopeful about Falling Slowly from Once and was stoked those two won, and that Jon Stewart brought her back after a commercial when they'd cut her off with music before she'd had a chance to say anything.  Tilda Swinton rocks.   There were several nominated films I hadn't seen. 

Then we saw the Meat Puppets open up for Built to Spill at the Fillmore.  Epic.