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TWEEN, a film I shot last year is now available on DVD. Check it out!

Hurt Locker Stills

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Friendly Hour Press Release

Multi-award-winning local LA playwright Tom Jacobson, the inventive mind behind The Road Theatre Company’s smash hit productions Tainted Blood, Bunbury, and Ouroboros, returns home to The Road’s stage next month to unveil the latest progeny of his quirky and wonderfully original imagination. Based on the actual minutes of a women’s club called THE FRIENDLY HOUR, formed in rural South Dakota in 1934, this poignant comedy charts 70 years of personal and national history, from skinning skunks and julebukking when the tale begins, to restoring the native prairie in the new millennium. Join these fascinating women as they laugh, cry, navigate the difficult changes in their relationships, and share their lives at their “friendly” monthly gathering.

Directed by Mark Bringelson (Ouroboros), THE FRIENDLY HOUR is set to open on Friday, Sept. 12 and play through Saturday, Nov. 1 at The Road Theatre, located within the historic Lankershim Arts Center in the NoHo Arts District of North Hollywood. Performances are Friday and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 2:00pm.

Venice Film Festival Too

Venice Film Festival unveils lineup

By Eric J. Lyman

July 29, 2008

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The latest films from Jonathan Demme, Darren Aronofsky and Kathryn Bigelow have helped the U.S. claim the most competition slots at the 65th Venice Film Festival, which boasts 19 world premieres.

In all, 15 of the 21 films hail from just four markets. The U.S. will provide five of the 21 titles, with four from Italy and three each from France and Japan.

All but two -- Oshii Mamoru's "The Sky Crawlers" and Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea," both animated Japanese films -- are world premieres.

Demme will make the trip to Venice for the second consecutive year with "Rachel Getting Married," a comedy about a woman leaving rehab after 10 years to attend her sister's wedding.

Guillermo Arriaga, who earned an Oscar nomination for his "Babel" screenplay, will make his first appearance in competition in Venice with the mother-daughter drama "The Burning Plain."

Bigelow's war thriller "The Hurt Locker," Aronofsky's action drama "The Wrestler" and "Vegas: Based on a True Story," Amir Naderi's first film in three years, round out the U.S. selections.

The strong showing of U.S. productions came despite the threat of a SAG strike, which Venice artistic director Marco Mueller said hurt prospects for many U.S. films.

Pupi Avati's historical drama "Giovanna's Father" and "A Perfect Day" from Ferzan Ozpetek are among the highlights from Italy.

Out of competition selections include Abbas Kiarostami's "Shirin" and opening-night film "Burn After Reading" from Joel and Ethan Coen.

The festival is set for Aug. 27-Sept. 6.

A lineup for the Venice festival follows:

Competition:

"The Wrestler," Darren Aronofsky, U.S.
"The Burning Plain," Guillermo Arriaga, U.S.
"Il Papa di Giovanna," Pupi Avati, Italy
"Birdwatchers," Marco Bechis, Italy
"L'Autre," Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic, France
"The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Bigelow, U.S.
"Il Seme Della Discordia," Pappi Corsicato, Italy
"Rachel Getting Married," Jonathan Demme, U.S.
"Teza," Haile Gerima, Ethiopia/Germany/France
"Paper Soldier (Bumaznyi Soldat)," Aleksy German Jr., Russia
"Sut," Semih Kaplanoglu, Turkey/France/Germany
"Achilles and the Tortoise (Akires to Kame)," Takeshi Kitano, Japan
"Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea," Hayao Miyazaki, Japan
"Vegas: Based on a True Story," Amir Naderi, U.S.
"The Sky Crawlers," Oshii Mamoru, Japan
"Un Giorno Perfetto," Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy
"Jerichow," Christian Petzold, Germany
"Inju, la Bete Dans l'Ombre," Barbet Schroeder, France
"Nuit de Chien," Werner Schroeter, France/Germany/Portugal
"Inland (Gabbia)," Tariq Teguia, Algeria/France
"Plastic City (Dangkou)," Yu Lik-wai, Brasil/China/Hong Kong/Japan

Oscar Buzz???????

I was reading a blog called CORRECT OPPINION and there was mention of Oscar Buzz around The Hurt Locker.

Here is the exerpt:

...but come award seasons, there will be a splurg of Oscar Baiting movies, like The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Reader, The Changeling, Australia, Revolutionary Road, Che, Milk, Miracle At St. Anna, The Hurt Locker…… and thats just for starters, off the top of my head.

Web Pilot

So I shot a pilot last year and its available online at myspace.com/suburbanlegendstv . The producers have someone at Stage 9 Digital Media (ABC Studios' web series site) taking a look at the pilot!! Fingers crossed!! PLEASE add the pilot as a friend on myspace to create interest.


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