Tonight I chuckled a true chuckle and realized it was from something I was writing. This makes me very happy. 40 something pages may not seem like a lot but to me it’s epic.

My biggest struggle so far is control. With short films I know the story from beginning to end, climaxes, funny moments - no worries. With this [feature] script it’s different. I’m learning to trust myself - to just write, open up and be excited to fail and try again.

I think it’s finally starting to work…

It’s been almost two weeks since the Sarasota Film Festival but I wanted to do a late recap of the wonderful weekend. I have been to a handful of festivals but my experience at SFF was different, magical in a weird kind of way. Tom Hall and Holly Herrick are incredibly sincere and passionate programmers and basically curated my dream line-up of a festival. It also didn’t hurt that the fest is on the beach and I hadn’t seen sun in too long.

It wasn’t until two minutes into the film - playing to a full audience - on a real movie theater screen - looking incredible on DigiBeta - that I finally felt proud. Through this whole process and the handful of screenings I’ve had I have felt a myriad of emotions. It’s difficult to watch the film for what it is instead of picking out the flaws with my overly critical eyes. Making Widow was my own cheap version of film school in every way possible and the minute we wrapped I felt like I had instantly become a year older. Now I am forty pages into my first feature and seeing Widow on the screen was refreshing. I watched it and I liked it, despite it’s flaws, and was proud to see my name in the credits.

So here’s to good film and family and lovely, lovely, Florida.

This is clearly the future of it all, folks. After Ophir Kutiel watched some music tutorials on youtube he had the idea to mix them together and create music. Sasha Frere Jones explains it best here.

one of my favorite tracks - the rest is here.