An interesting bridge on the way to Seattle.
I’ve since moved the bottom text and QR codes up a little bit to fill more of the black, but here it is, the final poster for Stella Buio!! So excited…Bonni Reid did a spectacular job and I can’t wait until I get home so I can make posters and postcards and shirts and all kinds of stuff!! :D
film: The Third Eye
synopsis: While doing research on the internet, a father accidentally discovers a violent, and disturbingly real, amateur film. Soon, his fascination is replaced by horror…
about the filmmaker: Caroline du Potet is a French female director born in 1982. After film school in Paris, she co-wrote and co-directed with her brother six short films in different genres. THE THIRD EYE is the last one. Their first feature film, a thriller/horror film called IN THEIR SLEEP, is released in 2010.
Yesterday, Viscera posted their first filmmaker spotlight for this year’s tour!
A good op-ed piece was posted on Forbes.com yesterday. Written by filmmaker Liz W. Garcia, the piece covers just one of the multitude of subconscious reasons most women aren’t taken seriously in the film industry.
From the piece:
We have archetypes in our collective consciousness and they…
I normally work in live action film. I can’t draw very well (but my stick figures are fabulous), but I’ve always wanted to try animating something. When I got After Effects I found out that you could animate images in it. Around the time I got the programme, a friend of mine named John O’Keefe approached me about making a music video for his solo cello work. Once I heard his song, I knew that I wanted to animate something to it. But with no real skills, how in the world could I accomplish something so difficult?
Shadow puppets.
I then contacted my friend Austin McKinley, who is a great graphic designer, and asked him to create four characters for me that I could animate in AE.
Cut to months later. Stella Buio is finished and I am about to embark on some even crazier journeys and I still hadn’t quite come up with just the right kind of story for this video. I knew what I wanted to tell, but the story itself was eluding me. Finally, one night it hit me and within a couple of days, I had made my first animated anything…the video that’s embedded above.
I hold no illusions, it’s not at all perfect. But for not being an animator, I’m incredibly happy with how it turned out. My favourite part is just after the Man stabs the Woman and they spin and slowly fall into the position in which we are introduced to them. My second favourite part is when Top Hat pushes the Man away from the Woman and he falls.
And to everyone I’ve stared at for the past few months trying to understand a little better how the human body moves: now you get it. :D
Our friends over at the Viscera Organization, a 501(c)3 non-profit based out of Los Angeles, California, are looking for volunteers to fill positions in both the beloved Viscera Film Festival and the fledgling Etheria Film Festival branches! Download the Staff Call PDF on the Viscera Film Festival front page to find out more!
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I work for Viscera and I can tell you that they’re some of the greatest people evar!!
Hot off the presses over at All Things Horror is a review by Chris Hallock of my newest short flick Stella Buio!
Hey look! Char Hardin’s review of Stella Buio is linked on the front page of The Raw Daily!
I probably shouldn’t admit when I don’t know who or what something is, but good gravy, Marie, in the parlance of the Hitchhiker’s Guide, the internet is big. Really big. I don’t really know what The Raw Daily is, but my lead protagonist in Stella Buio, Melanie Robel, sent the link to me today so thanks Melanie and thank you Raw Daily!
Also, in case you’re wondering what “Love Lickers / Little Baby’s Ice Cream” is in my tabs, click here. I need to go to Philly just to check out this company…
The utterly fabulous Bonni Reid has posted this work in progress version of the poster art for Stella Buio.
HOLY POTATOPANCAKES!!
Click here to check out the review by SuperHeidi herself.
I’m going to quote what I said on Facebook here:
Whenever I send my flicks to Heidi, I don’t expect to be reviewed. She’s my friend and I adore the hell out of her and if I had to choose between her reviewing my films and her being my friend, I’d choose for her to be my friend. But, she happened to like Stella Buio enough to write a review so Heidi, thank you and I love you (P.S.: the cheque’s in the mail. If you spell it British-like, no one’s the wiser.)
