Dark Design Pictures

I finally had a chance to make to Andy’s Filmmaker’s Salon. when I arrived Andy was standing out front frantically text. Sadly tonight was canceled. There was a scheduling conflict with Say Si. Sucked, I finally had a free night to make it out and it’s canceled. LOL go figure. None the less, I had a nice time hanging out talking to Andy and catching up. Erik Bosse showed up and we all continued to BS. After about 40 minutes we parted ways and went are separate directions.

So tonight I to the San Antonio Local Film Festival. For the most part it was a beauty contest for films, but over all it wasn’t to bad. The top 3 winners deserved to be in the top 3. However I think Bryan Ortiz film should of won top billing. I kind of seemed like a cross between Cloverfield and The Happening, but with it sucking. There were only two films I could of done without Reve and Hope. Reve was suppose to be a horror movie. The only thing it had going for it is that it was very pretty and was edited very well. Sadly it was all style and no substance.

Then there was Hope. Hope was nothing more than a 5 minute Obama ad brought to you by Will Shipley. Personally I have an issue with blatant agenda pushing in my entertainment. I felt it had no place being screened at SAL, it wasn’t a film. And for the record I’m not a McCain supporter. Agenda pushing just annoys the shit out of me! You want to make a political piece, go to Jib Jab and get a clue. Now that’s entertainment! Okay, political rant over.

The intermission was nice. I got a chance to catch up with some people I haven’t seen in awhile. Mister Pete, Carlos Pina, Mark Morga, Nikki Young (who was looking rather hot I might add), as well many others. I also had a chance to meet Bryan Ortiz’s mother. She was very friendly. I left after the intermission. Tomorrow is another shooting day for 1-800-Tech-Support and I need to get some rest. Sadly I had to miss out on Organ Trail and Carlos’s film Blood Rivals. Ugh time for some sleep.

Well I’ve decided to go to SAL tomorrow night. Andy invited me to go make fun of him so I’ve decided to take him up on the offer. I wonder if it will be frowned upon to throw rotten fruit. LOL Okay not really but it’s a good opportunity for me to network with my fellow filmmakers. I float in and out of the community. It depends on what I’m doing.

Saturday and Sunday are big shoot days for 1-800-Tech-Support. So I hadn’t planed on going. And I’m kind of done with short films to boot. The only reason why I occasionally do them is to show support for the film community in San Antonio. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I’m to good to do them. I just want to do bigger projects and at some point make money at doing them. Bosse has put a lot of effort in getting the National 48HR film project here. Even though I can’t seem to get a film in on time, I’ll keep doing it. I’m a glutton for punishment I guess. LOL The same goes for Drew with the local 48HR Challenge. Support the community!

SAL on the other hand has no shortage of entries and I’m not going to go out of my way to do a short film for them even though it’s run by a couple of my good friends. I just know the type of films I do won’t be accepted. So why bother, plus there are a lot better filmmakers that deserve to have their stuff screened. LOL

Tonight I stayed up way to late to catch Bret’s latest film Shadow Rises. I have to say I really enjoyed it and I liked it more the Innocent Killers. Which I still think it should of been two movies, but that’s neither here nor there. However, Shadow Rises was a bit to long. The story is about the rise of the Shadow Dragon played by DeMarcus Young. I don’t want to go into to much details because I’m really fucking tired. But I would like to congratulate Brett on a job well done. The third installment of the Innocence Saga will be out in December.

I’ve decided that I’m going to be releasing the second teaser on either Monday or Tuesday of next week. Initially wanted to release them 2 weeks apart but decided against it. The trailer is going to be pushed ton November and I want to start creating a buzz. Charnell said she planning on blogging about the teaser so hopefully that will generate more traffic.

So after several weeks of wondering what I was going to do, I came up with this.