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10 Sundance shorts on iTunes

January 19, 2009 Indie, Sundance, The Nines, Video

Ten of the 80 short films featured this week at the Sundance Film Festival are available free on iTunes until January 25th. It’s a great way to see some work you’d almost certainly never catch. Visit itunes.com/Sundance to check out trailers and download. (Link opens in iTunes store.) I’m happy to see shorts featured this […]

Audition scenes

January 17, 2009 Go, Ops, Projects, The Remnants

When you’re auditioning actors for a role, the scenes as scripted are sometimes not especially useful. The solution: write new material specifically for casting.

The Visitor

January 9, 2009 Los Angeles, Meta, Projects, The Nines, Video

On Wednesday morning, we came into the kitchen to find an orange slice on the stove and a tomato that seemed to have exploded. This was obviously troubling. My initial thought was that one of us had sleepwalked, and acted out some rage issue against fruit. I realize this is a strange explanation to reach […]

The Remnants, in full

January 8, 2009 Projects, Remnants, Video, Web series

I showed a snippet back in October, but here is the full web pilot I shot during the strike. If you click through to Vimeo, you can see it in full-screen HD. ((Click the zoom-out arrows in the bottom right corner. It’s only HD if you’re watching it on Vimeo, not the embedded version.)) For […]

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