Festival links -- Updated

Here are the links to the Mill Valley and BendFilm festival pages:

Mill Valley - description of the selection of short films titled Truth Be Known.
Showtimes are Friday the 6th at 5pm at the Sequoia;
and again Thursday the 12th at 5pm at Rafael.

BendFilm - general festival page.
Filter is playing on Friday the 13th with The Slanted Screen at 3:30pm at the McMenamins #2;
and again on Saturday the 14th with The Damnedest, Finest Ruins at 10:30am at the Regal Cinemas.

The pages have good descriptions of the programs and links to buy tickets. The BendFilm links in to the general page. You'll have to navigate through to the Documentary section for the two films.

I've adjusted my schedule to make it to as many film events as possible. Unfortunately that means I have to miss the second MVFF screening to make my way to Bend. Bend is an all-weekend affair but I'm ducking out on the 15th to make it back home to Ozlo (the new baby).

Another festival selection

The email just came in that Filter has been accepted to the BendFilm festival in Oregon. The festival runs from October 12th - 15th and they are super hot to have the filmmakers attend. Now I have to figure out how to get up there. I'll post the dates when they are released.

Plus, dates and times have been announced for Mill Valley. Filter will be screening Fri. Oct 6, 5:00PM at the CinéArts@Sequoia and Thu. Oct 12, 5:00PM at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center. Stacey, Omied and I are planning to go to the one on the 6th. I'll probably ride with Omied on the 12th.

Hope to see you at one or the other!

Fine Tuning Filter

Stacey and I sat down and went over the film again and implemented some of the ideas we had lingering in the backs our our minds. Namely, breaking the format of the complete reporter segment and intercutting the reporters to form seemingly one report at the beginning. This more closely simulates the experience of watching TV and flipping through the channels.

I was initially reticent to implement such an idea as it broke the integrity of watching a complete report that was unmanipulated. But in some respects I understand that this was more important to me than to the integrity of the film. This was mitigated by my time manipulation of the security footage to highlight certain sections. I then felt the rhythm of the piece could lead into the intercut reporters.

Then end result is a film almost three minutes shorter with a pace that doesn't start and stop. It leads you deeper in and lets the message develop rather that being so explicit. I'll smooth out the rough spots and call it done.