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A good friend of mine has started doing reviews of some of cinema’s more sleazy digressions. Check it out!

The story of one family’s search for shelter. Pilot story for the upcoming national online storytelling corps America in 5 (www.AmericaIn5.org). This video was produced in seven days by a team of Seattle-based storytellers including a comic artist, an audio producer, a journalist and a filmmaker.

Produced with the generous support of the University of Washington’s MCDM program and Department of Communication.

First shown Friday April 16th at TedxSeattle.

Joy from The Common Language Project on Vimeo.

So back in the spring of 2009 The Last Quest decided to work with The Common Language Project on the International Documentary Film Challenge. This film was conceived and completed over the span of five days at the beginning of March 2009. After screening at the official Doc Challenge screenings the film was submitted to many film festivals. Here is a list of some of the festivals it was selected to play:
The Seattle International Film Festival
DC Shorts
Milwaukee Film Festival
Tacoma Film Festival
BendFilm Festival
Local Sightings

Here is the “logline” for the film:
“As newspapers across the country struggle to stay viable both culturally and fiscally, Seattle’s own Post Intelligencer is slated for closure. ‘It’s 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.”

I four hours I need to be up and rearing to go but here I sit posting to this blog…

For the next four days I expect to be very occupied. The Last Quest is shooting a new film called “Still Life.” I am the producer for this short so that means Brad = busy-boy.

Here is our schedule. I also posted to the other blog part of an epic production bible that I have been working on for the last week.

So yes busy-ness is mine. I will be back with more posts soon.

Be prepared for gory-tree-revenge!

“Treevenge” played at SIFF and was my favorite film from the “Nightmare Factory” program.

Thanks to twitchfilm.net

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!