The Haircut will be screening at the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival! The Short Film Corner is a new event at Cannes, wherein short films from all over the world are screened for prospective distributors. And my little film is one of them. I'm just psyched by the idea of my film reaching French shores. Viva Le Coupe!
"Chris Marker lives in Paris and does not grant interviews. When asked for a picture of himself, he usually offers a photograph of a cat instead. His cat is named Guillaume."
It's my birthday today and I find myself wishing that I had a date I could just hang out all day in the beach with. But since I do not I shall go anyhoo, and partake in the Bondi surf one last time before winter hits and the water gets too cold to swim in.
Still deciding whether or not I want to get drunk tonight.
I am really anxious to see whether or not this camera lives up to the hype and will change the face of filmmaking as we know it. Is this really the digital camera that finally puts film to rest?
Shoots 4K images, totally expandable, costs a reasonable $17,000+. And geez, would you just look at it??
"It looks like Darth Vader's dick." -Aint It Cool.com reader
And of course, none other than Peter Jackson gets to play with it first. Based on said footage, the reviews are glowing.
I've been storyboarding with more detail than I ever have for The Last One. In my previous films I'd been perfectly content with basic sketches on a notebook. For this particular film I need the boards to help convey the tone and mood I want to the crew. I find that I can only talk and flail my arms around for so much before they all start to space out. But once I whip out the boards and show them, their eyes light up and they all oooh in amazement. Bottom line, storyboards are a great motivational tool. Use them and save your saliva! Hopefully you'll be lucky enough to work with someone like Tam Morris, who is the bloke who has taken on the challenge of turning this:
To this:
To quote a crew member: "Mate, you should just scan these, chuck 'em into Final Cut, put some dialogue and music, boom. There's your film."
And then he took it back when he realized that option would have left him jobless.
Ever since I was a kid and watched the very underrated (in my eyes) movie Point Break, I've always wanted to skydive. That film had such a terrific skydive sequence that it almost made you forget all about Keanu's "I. Am. An. F.B.I. Agent!" acting.
All throughout my Gameplan years I kept my fingers crossed, wishing for the day to come wherein I would get The Call- Top Gun music playing in the background, producer's voice sounding totally Tom Skerrit: "Gear up Carlo. You're jumping off a plane today."
But it never happened, probably because we couldn't afford it, or there was never really an option in the Philippines that was safe enough (case in point, the plane full of skydivers that crashed recently). And as my term in Gameplan ended, I left with two regrets- 1) that I was unable to dive with Great White sharks, and 2) that I never got to skydive.
Fast forward three years later and I finally got my chance. Of course I had to pay for it by myself (400 big ones), but what's a chunk of change for something that lasts forever? I'm speaking figuratively, as the actual jump lasts for about 10 minutes.
Three days after the jump I am still gurgling at the mouth with overflowing adrenaline and thus lacking in words how to describe it so instead I will let YouTube do the talking:
So there you go. Jumping off a plane 14,000 feet high may seem crazy, but I would do it again in a second. The 45 seconds of freefall is the most amazing feeling, and I'm guessing it's the closest to flying you will ever get.
I just saw the funniest thing today. On the rooftop of the building across mine, a male pigeon was trying to get his freak on with an unwilling female pigeon. After several minutes of prancing, preening, and feather puffing, the female relented and let the male climb on her back and mount her. Just as he did, another female pigeon landed on the roof next to them. The male, having spotted her, abandoned his conquest in mid- thrust and promptly began prancing, preening, and puffing for the other female!
