Mike Francis's Blog (5)

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

This week it's off to Philadelphia to the Franklin Institute to participate in their opening of Galileo, the Medici and the Age of the Telescope. The Franklin and Fels Planetarium have managed to get Galileo's telescope for part of the International Year of Astronomy from the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence.



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I just got back from performing my Galileo Galilei the Starry Messenger at the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University. It was a family event for middle school students interested in science and technology. We had a very good audience with lots of questions for Galileo. Before visiting STScI, I visited a school in the DC area and stopped in DC for a look.



The inauguration took quite a toll on the… Continue

Well, I'm sorry to say I was a little disappointed. It is a "very" long drive to Bangor and I was really hoping to see "Fathers" on the big screen. What was there was a beautiful auditorium (the local high school), but a tiny screen set up on the stage and a home quality unbalanced video projector. The audience was very small, probably because there were more than one events going on at the same time. They were very appreciative though and that part was nice.



The other films that… Continue

I worked on a grad thesis film for a student (Bridget Lake) from Loyola U in California a couple of years ago. "Fathers" will be shown in the upcoming Bangor Film Festival on Friday August 15. We had a great cast including NE actors, Michele Romano, Bill Mootos, Bill Steele and NY actress Diane Gioseffi, as well as a wonderfully talented crew from all over. If anyone is attending the festival, I'm going to try to get up there myself. Please look me up.…



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