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Yesterday The Hot Dog Cycle played at STIFF.
The screening was pretty fantastic.
Apparently this movie is funny; a lot of laughs at this showing.
STIFF really was the best place to have the premier of The Hot Dog Cycle as its whole drunken-little-brother of the old behemoth persona helped set the right tone for the film.
So thanks everybody for coming out last night.
Hopefully we’ll be able to do it again… now onto submitting to other local film fests.

This Sunday the Seattle Times did an article on STIFF, the festival The Hot Dog Cycle is playing in. They used a picture from the film. Strange seeing myself in a newspaper wearing a hot dog suit.

At 9:30 tonight I will plant my butt in SIFF cinema and watch something I helped make on a screen on which I seen the likes of Hitchcock and Kubrick films. SIFF Cinema is a great place to watch films. I am very excited. This is the going to be the first time I watch this film in the format it was shot in, HD.
This is going to be a big night for me… If you are able, please show up and represent.

-Brad

Eli Sanders at The Stranger gave us our short It’s in the P-I its first review and surprisingly it was good!

…most interestingly, an exploration of the end of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer through the words of its former staffers.

and then it continues in true Stranger fashion:

Making it all really, truly worthwhile: Love You More, a hot, hot short about young love, hasty sex, and the music of the Buzzcocks.

So SIFF and STIFF both have our films up on their respective websites. “It’s in the P-I” and “The Hot Dog Cycle” are both such different movies that fit so well for the festivals they are in. It is crazy that something we made has this life outside of us. It is now something to be marketed and watched by people who may not necessarily have any relationship to us. I am dually excited and scared by the prospect of some random person watching these things we all thought was a good idea to make months ago.

A screen grab of the webpage for our short "It's in the P-I."

A screen grab of the webpage for our short "The Hot Dog Cycle."

You can and should to both of these screenings as both these movies worth seeing on a large screen with other people around and we’ll be there!

This is a movie I worked on as a part of the 911 Media team. We got our theme (superstition) and a required detail (taking a pill) at 10pm on a Friday. We had to turn the completed film in at 10pm on Saturday. It was kind of brutal and I’m not sure I’m going to do it again especially with a crew of 16. I ended up being a producer on the movie.

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@ SIFF Cinema
The closing film of the “Disclosures” shorts program.
Buy tickets from the SIFF website.

Here is the Logline:
“As newspapers across the country struggle to stay viable both culturally and fiscally, Seattle’s own Post Intelligencer is slated for closure. “Its in the P-I” tries to capture the confusion and disappointment of the people who worked the last few days of this 142 year old Seattle institution. ”
Come see the movie in glorious HD on a gigantic screen! We’re be there and hopefully so will you.

@ the Georgetown Super8 Festival. Films screenings all over the neighborhood from 2pm till 10pm. Five buck suggested donation for a full day on films.
Go to Buttonmakers to get your hand stamps and maps. Then go to The Stables to watch our movie. Screenings will happen there hourly from 2pm to 9pm.

Found this on a friend’s site. He is a really awesome animator who apparently also program’s flash games and or puzzles. It is really cool you should check it out.

I am sitting in a car in downtown Seattle. It is 5:28AM and I haven’t slept. There is no one on the streets except the crazies and a lonely street sweeper who looks at me with disdain as he passes. Everyone else on the movie is at home, asleep or just waking up. Whereas I am waiting for an actor who has agreed to get up unreasonably early to be in movie that we he knows absolutely nothing about. A movie that has to be completely finished in 16 hours. It is clear I’m not going to sleep at all during this entire project. It is at this point that I realize that working on films really is the thing I should be doing. I will sacrifice sleep… sanity… just about anything to finish and facilitate projects. I would not do this for any other thing that could be considered a job. This is probably unhealthy and I know that, but it is important for me to give it what I have before the tectonic plates of my existence shift and destroy this fragile bubble I am currently living in both creatively and professionally. Even if the thing I’m working on is a low-stakes 24 hour film race.

I think I have a demented notion of “fun.” I don’t see that changing anytime soon.