Hi all,
Just a reminder that we’ve got a short film screening tonight at Happy (118 Tory Street), fundraising for The Lake.
Doors at 8pm; screening starts at 8.30pm. A fine selection of short films (and one music video).
All we ask is a $5 contribution towards The Lake.
For sale on the night – Trade Aid Chocolate – Fundraising for The Lake.
So, I jumped on the bandwagon to change my Facebook profile pic to a cartoon character from my childhood.
Usually I don’t jump on the bandwagons. I definitely didn’t with the purse/bra things. I’m not sure why I decided this would be good. I suppose I enjoyed seeing everyone’s childhood cartoons as their profile pics, and I thought ‘I’m not going to be violent against children anytime soon, so, yep, I can do that’.
However, questions have been raised on how changing ones profile pic will do anything to combat violence against children (two examples below).
For the record, I’m against violence against anyone, not just children. Let’s leave violence in movies, where it belongs. (Hmmm, violence in movies… brilliant).
So, to show that I walk the walk, I’ve donated money to the NZ Green Party, in support of their work for Children’s Welfare. For more on what they do, please see their website.
If you want to show that you walk the walk, I suggest action against child abuse – support of people working in the field is one way of doing it. Find an organisation that you support who are doing things in that field, and send them some cash. Every organisation needs fiscal support.
From Development.
Katie Wolfe’s “Redemption” makes it into Sundance’s Indigenous Shorts Showcase. Lots of congratulations to her, and to everyone else involved!
(Just putting this here so I can look at it later)
Harmless has an IMDB page! Weehoo! You can find it online here.
If you’ve seen the film, please go on and write a review.
I’ve started updating the page. So I think I’ll be getting a personal IMDB page, as will key cast and crew. Yay!
I’m putting this here so I can watch it later.
I just went to TWO movie marathons this weekend!
At the documentary seminar I did with Leanne Pooley a couple of weeks ago, Leanne provided us with a list of documentaries that we should see. Of the list of 28, I had seen 1. Since then, I’ve seen 4.
Here’s the list. How many have you seen?
So, I’ve been assessing my workload, and I’m not sure whether I’ll be running MASC in 2011.
It takes up a lot of my time. There are times when I love it (like when there are masses of people at a gig I’ve run, and I’ve met awesome people, and heard amazing music),
and times when I don’t (like when there isn’t an audience at a gig, and I’ve been too busy to advertise enough). Every year I think, ‘I don’t know if I can do this anymore’. Then I have an amazing experience, and think ‘I can’t not do this, it’s fantastic!’.
My 2011 is going to involve more study, part-time work, looking after the house, making films… and then there’s the stuff I don’t have time to do. I feel I don’t have enough time to put into following my own creative pursuits. I need more time for filmmaking and writing and playing music, dammit.
I’m just putting these links here to share them, and so I can look at them later.
Busy Times 