I had a great screening of “The Place Where You Live” at the Flanders Scientific booth at BIRTV in Beijing, as part of a series of presentations I did about directing projects using visual effects, making good directing decisions on limited budgets, and using pre-production as a director with to make post-production easier, and cheaper, later on. I also shared how I and…

Accepted to the On The Line Film Festival
More good news, we’ve been accepted to the first ever On the Line Film Festival, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It’s kind of fun that our last film festival acceptance is here in the town where I live. Our screening is on Friday August 7th, at 11am. www.stpff.com

Accepted to the From The Beyond Film Festival
We’re very pleased to announce our acceptance to Stoughton, Wisconsin’s From the Beyond Film Festival, on August 8th. fromthebeyondcon.com

We Finally Have a Poster
It’s taken me all year, and two film festival acceptances who required a “poster” for the movie, for me to put together something. The bonus, of course, is now being able to cover the poster with laurels from all of the film festival acceptances so far (18 at the moment, not all of which have yet been announced). It’s…

“Best Leading Lady” Awarded at ConCarolinas
I’m so thrilled to announce that the ConCarolinas short film festival has awarded actor Dawn Krosnowski for her performance in “The Place Where You Live.” It’s great to see Dawn be recognized for what in fact constitutes two performances in the film, so big congratulations to her!

Accepted to the Sci-Fi-London International Festival of Science Fiction
More good news, as we’ve been accepted to the Sci-Fi-London International Festival of Science Fiction. Our screening is in Shorts Programme 7, which plays on Monday June 1st at 8:40pm, and Sunday June 7th at 12pm, both at the Stratford Picturehouse.

Accepted to the ConCarolinas Short Film Festival
Happy to announce we’ve been accepted to the 2015 ConCarolinas Short Film Festival, in Concord, North Carolina, May 29th-31st (screening times TBD). We might even be up for an award, but that’ll have to wait for the festival.

Special Jury Award at the 48th Annual Houston Worldfest
It’s always gratifying to have one’s film recognized, and in this case, it was a huge surprise after the Silver, Gold, and Platinum awards in their categories had been handed out, to find out that “The Place Where You Live” had been awarded the Special Jury Award for Science-Fiction Short at the Houston Worldfest. It was a great festival to attend, I met…

Accepted to the 34th Annual Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival
Being a current resident of Saint Paul (for a whopping four years now), I’m really, really happy that we’ve been accepted into Minnesota’s largest and longest-running film festival. We screen in the short film block “Shorts 3: Short Stories for the Big Screen,” on Sunday, April 12th at 4:10 pm, at St. Anthony Main Theatre 4. Unfortunately, I’ll be out of…

Accepted to the 48th Annual Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival
I’ve actually known this for a while, but I was waiting for the schedule to be published. We’re incredibly pleased to have been accepted to the 48th annual Worldfest Film Festival, in Houston, Texas. The screening is Sunday, April 19th, at 3pm, in the Dramatic Shorts matinee program. Keep in mind that the Dramatic Shorts program comes after a Science Fiction Shorts…