3-5-07
A LITTLE LIGHT has been selected for the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Upcoming screenings:
Unfortunately I am out of the country but will be back for the Other Venice Beach Film Festival screening and, hopefully, the Beverly Hills Film Festival screening.
2-14-07
Happy Hallmark Day. A LITTLE LIGHT has been selected to screen at the Delray Beach Film Festival in Florida.
Also, we had a great time at the Dam Short Film Festival. A small festival with big talent and good films. I liked “Every 30 Seconds” a lot. The pitch: “Statistics show that every thirty seconds, someone is hit by a drunk driver. This is that man.”
2-7-07
A LITTLE LIGHT has been selected in the 31st Atlanta Film Festival in April! Very excited about this one. Somehow I forgot to submit it, and realized it only a day before the super duper extended deadline. Next thing you know, we’re in!
Also, on a local note, we’ll be screening at The Other Venice Film Festival, also in April. Dates to come on both festivals.
I’ll be in Nevada this weekend for the Dam Short Film Festival in Boulder City. For a small film festival, they really seem to have their stuff together. We have screenings at 5pm on 2/9 and 7pm on 2/10.
2-2-07
A LITTLE LIGHT will screen in competition at the Beverly Hills Film Festival this April.
1-30-07
A LITTLE LIGHT won Best Comedy at the Smogdance Film Festival this weekend!
1-15-07
A LITTLE LIGHT has been selected to screen at the Sedona International Film Festival. I highly recommend this festival, not only because they seem organized and have good taste in short films, but also because Sedona is one of the prettiest areas in the west. Haven’t been there in 10 years and am looking forward to it.
1-14-07
A LITTLE LIGHT has been selected to screen at the Lake County Film Festival, the old stomping grounds of one Michael Birkenheier. This comes thanks to filmmaker Steve Gelder, who saw the film at Cackalacky and recommended it. Always nice to have the praise of a fellow filmmaker. Maybe I should praise another filmmaker sometime. Wait, that would require a heart.
1-1-07
Happy New Year! A LITTLE LIGHT has been selected to screen twice at the Dam Short Film Festival in Boulder City, NV, and will also be screening at the Knight of Shorts Film Festival in Riverside, CA. So, screenings in the new year:
Dam Short Film Festival: Friday, February 9th, 5:30pm, in the “Comedy Universe” program and Saturday February 10th at 7pm in the “Comedy Crossroads” program. Both screen at the American Legion Hall in Boulder City.
Knight of Shorts: TBD, Riverside CA. February 17th, I think.
11-30-06
A LITTLE LIGHT is an official selection of the Smogdance Film Festival in California.
11-14-06
A LITTLE LIGHT was a recipient of the SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENTS award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival! Uh-huh, we’ve got spirit! Listen now, you can hear it!
10-31-06
Happy Halloween. Fort Lauderdale changed the screening a bit. We are now screening in front of a feature, GOLD DIGGER KILLER, at 9:15pm. Still November 11th, still at Cinema Paradiso.
Also, I found this thing. Apparently we were chosen for a special screening at the “Sun Dawg Film Festival” which is something FLIFF put on.
10-23-06
The word on the street is A LITTLE LIGHT won BEST AMERICAN SHORT at the Cackalacky (Carolina) Film Festival this past weekend. I wish I could have attended, as apparently the judges are very skilled in the art du cinema. Woo hoo!
9-28-06
The schedule has been set at the 21st Annual Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, and we scored a great screening slot. We’ll be playing in Shorts Program #4 on Saturday, November 11th. It’ll be playing at the famed Cinema Paradiso theater in Fort Lauderdale. Stadium seating, yo.
9-23-06
A LITTLE LIGHT has been selected to the Cackalacky Film Festival. They asked us to submit a while back and then boom, we’re in. Go their website, they have some funny posters. We will be screening at the Overcash Performing Arts Center on Saturday October 21st at 4pm. And I’ve always had a special place in my heart for, er, the Tell Tale Heart, which is screening in the same program.
9-6-06
A LITTLE LIGHT has been selected to screen in competition at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival!
9-2-06
We will be screening tonight as part of the BEST OF THE FESTIVAL in Rhode Islands’ “Stars Under the Stars” program. Wicked!
Also, when it comes to media exposure, beggars can’t be choosers. In the LA Times Calendar from 8/31/06 there is a long article about short films, and they mention George Eldred, who programs for Aspen. There’s a picture of him. Look behind his head.
8-28-06
Wow. Palm Springs was amazing. Had a good, well attended screening Saturday night followed by a Q+A. The guys from LE CHASE were in the same panel as us, so that was cool seeing them again. And hey, Brandon Routh was there too, lending some star power to the Q+A. He was really cool, and I respect him for coming out and supporting the short film he probably made before he became the man of steel.
Greg Corbin and I were interviewed Friday on the tube. Personally I think I sounded like a blithering idiot, but we’ll put the tape up online as soon as we get it so you can decide for yourself. Thanks again to Kristen Tokuhara at KMIR and Justin Tufeld at B/W/R for the exposure.
Palm Springs has its act together. The film market, where you can go and check out DVDs of the selected AND not selected films, is ingenious; I could have spent hours there if I had the hours to spend. I went to a panel with Jason Reitman, and it was great. They first showed Jason’s shorts, which I really liked. Really funny, inventive stuff. Then they interviewed him and took questions from the audience and that was good and informative. Greg was able to be at the festival for four days, and I know he got a lot out of the networking there. Even in my day and a half there I met some great people.
So I can’t say enough good things about the festival. If you’re a short filmmaker and you’re stumbling around and find this, do everything you can to get into it. And if you don’t, go anyway. I saw just as many films that weren’t selected as ones that were.
Also, here’s a quick blurb about Alan in the Desert Sun. I’m going to be putting links like this in the press section from now on.
8-23-06
On Friday at 6:15am (or thereabouts) I will be interviewed on the morning show for NBC Palm Springs affiliate KMIR-- channel 6. Yeah, that’s right. It’s a media onslaught.
Here’s some pictures from the screening on Saturday night. They came from Marisa. I don’t know who to give photo credit to, though, because as you see, she’s in them. I hope to get more photos from Saturday up soon.
8-21-06
Had an amazing private screening for cast and crew and family and friends Saturday night at the Fine Arts Theatre on Wilshire. We were able to screen it in projected HDCAM, and it was great to see all of our hard work seen (and heard) the way it was supposed to be. Thanks again to Michael S. Hall. If anybody wants to see their film in a great theater for a good price with a wonderful level of professionalism, definitely check them out. We should have some pictures up soon.
Also, check us out on IMDB. Not all the credits seem to be up there yet. IMDB is a strange and mysterious place. At first, A LITTLE LIGHT just popped up there with Patrick Loungway listed as cinematographer and me listed as editor. We can’t figure out who put it up there, and why the credits were just limited to those two. But since then we’ve made our submissions and it’s a little more full.
8-16-06
Here’s some more information about Palm Springs. It looks like we’re in the BOY MEETS GIRL program, which makes a whole lot more sense than the ACTORS TURNED FILMMAKERS program we fell in at RIIFF. I mean, really-- have they seen me act? Where, in my high school drama club? I don’t even make the obligatory independent film director’s cameo in A LITTLE LIGHT because I’m so acutely aware of my on-camera suckness. Oh well, chalk it up as another oddity I experienced there.
Palm Springs seems like a really cool festival. The film market there allows people who can’t make it to your screening to watch it on their own time in a cubicle in the lobby. Rad.
8-14-06
Had a great screening at RIIFF on Saturday. At the last minute, (and without telling anyone, including us) they moved us into the 800 seat main theater. That worked to our advantage because it was a pretty sizable crowd. The reception to the movie was great. Lots of laughing, a couple of really big laughs, and a wonderful applause at the end.
Before going to bed in the wee hours of the morning, I looked on the website and was surprised to see that we were nominated for an award. Best editing, which is kind of neat because it meant A LITTLE LIGHT was in competition with the features as well. And they say directors can’t edit their own material. Ha! I say, Ha! And I noticed that Alex Merkin even won one of the editing awards for his well put together short ACROSS THE HALL. And he’s the director, too! So there, Mr. Conventional Wisdom!
I went to the awards brunch the next morning too. Shared a table with the guys from the feature THE TOURNAMENT, which won an award.
I want to give a shout out to LE CHASE, too. It was the last film in the program and my friends and I liked it a lot. It won an award for its music, (apparently we weren’t considered because we had to apply to something else, which we didn’t know) and it’s just a fun, well done movie. Never has the word “whore” been such a joy to hear. (I mean, read.)
8-11-06
The thankfully renamed Palm Springs ShortFest, (as opposed to the ironically wordy Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films) has given us our screening times:
Saturday August 26th 6pm at the Camelot Theater
Tuesday August 29th 11am at the Camelot Theater
8-1-06
RIIFF got the ultimate hookup and we’ll now be screening in stupendous HDCAM. Should be pretty amazing to see it projected in high def.
7-24-06
RIIFF screening update: We will now be screening at 6:30PM on Saturday, August 12th at the Cinematheque. The Cinematheque is part of the Columbus Theater in Providence, at 270 Broadway.
7-17-06
Hey, check out that fancy new downloads page. If you’re press, or just curious, you can download high resolutions stills from the film as photographed by Sebastian Artz. Also, you can download a press kit and the shooting draft of the script.
Also, we’re awaiting some final information about our screening in Rhode Island. We know that it’ll be August 11 at 7pm in “Venue 1” but they’re trying to figure out what “Venue 1” is.
7-10-06
More great news! We’re in at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. They’re still figuring out programming, so I don’t have any more information than the festival takes place August 8-13. And it will be the film’s WORLD PREMIERE!
6-26-06
Great news! We’ve been officially selected to the prestigious Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. Just heard, so don’t know all the specifics yet. Stay tuned for that. But woo hoo! It’s a biggie. The festival is August 24-30, so if you’re in the neighborhood (I consider the Western Hemisphere the neighborhood) come by and enjoy the film! Oh, and did I mention the trailer?
6-23-06
