All Blog Posts Tagged 'SAG' (3)

Last week I shot another student film, "Lynx Jinxed" playing opposite a real lynx. Now lynxes apparently have never been to film school. The director asks them to move camera right, the lynx will go straight after the cameraman. Ask it to sit and look at the woodcutter (me) and it rolls over for a belly rub. After three days of shooting they called it a wrap and are just hoping there is enough film to tell the story. We'll… Continue

I have not seen everything that is nominated and I will vote online tomorrow. This year I was sent 5 excellent DVD's of nominated films to review "for my consideration". For anyone who is not a member or who has never received one of these, often "For Your Consideration" scrolls across the screen at odd moments during the film. This is so you cannot sell it, or so people will know that you should not have sold it or given it away. No worries here, though, because I want to save my copies for my… Continue

Well, after lots of hard work planning and organizing, the SAG 75th Party finally happened this weekend. I had a Blast (pun intended). Sold out with 500 people! We had a great group of volunteers for this event. What an upbeat positive bunch. Steve Auger found the Ritz for the event. Bill Mootos, Julie Wood and Dona Sommer did most of the overall organizing. The rest of us pitched in with various duties such as PR, mailings, designing the invitations, writing the Blasts, checking people in,… Continue