Creation was easy...filmmaking is hard!

AUDIENCE OF ONE playing in NYC!!

I worked on this film for about 5 months a couple years back. If you're in the area you should check it out. You will have plenty to talk about after the film, I promise. Time Out New York gives it 4 Stars
Time Out New York Film Review

AUDIENCE OF ONE, the multiple-award winning documentary directed by Michael Jacobs, comes to the Big Apple for a week run at the historic Anthology Film Archives. Join the director for introductions and Q&A's at two shows a night the first weekend, and come back for this AMAZING doc the whole week long.

Where: Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave @ 2nd St., NYC)
When: May 8th - May 14th. Screening 7pm & 9pm nightly, with an additional 5pm screening on Saturday and Sunday

DVDs with loads of special features will be available for sale opening weekend at a discount. Please support independent film and come check out this amazing documentary. You will not be disappointed!

Tickets available at the box office only. Go to http://anthologyfilmarchives.org for more information!

About the film:
AUDIENCE OF ONE is the ceaselessly engaging chronicle of Richard Gazowsky, a charismatic Pentecostal pastor who receives a vision from God. Through what he deems a "prophetic whisper", The Studio in the Sky instructs him to shoot a multi-million dollar sci-fi/religious epic, sending him and his followers on a journey of extreme faith.

With the support and inexperienced assistance of his family and congregation, the energetic and blindingly sincere Gazowsky shepherds his delusions of grandeur from San Francisco to Italy to shoot GRAVITY: THE SHADOW OF JOSEPH, complete with costumes, stunts and special effects. But their vision of "Star Wars meets The Ten Commandments" shares much more with AMERICAN MOVIE and LOST IN LA MANCHA, as the production increasingly veers off it's divine plan.

Award-winning filmmaker Michael Jacobs' scrupulously nonjudgmental chronicle of Gazowsky and his flock going all out with a massive, $100 million film production is full of humor and pathos, and what transpires is a remarkable story of obsession, faith and delusion.

WINNER - Special Jury Award, SXSW Film Festival
WINNER - Beyond Belief Award, AFI/SILVERDOCS
WINNER - Audience Award, San Francisco Documentary Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - New Directors/New Films

My ears and eyes are burning!

During a recent job I had to cut out objectionable material from movie trailers that are going to to be available on cable TV. Here is the list of objectionable things they handed me. Basically I was making sure the trailers would be okay for a 5 year old to watch and wouldn't offend anyone. Some of these are pretty funny. My favorites are in bold and italics.

SEX
No nudity
No hands on breasts
No rubbing body parts
No thong bikinis
No excessive cleavage
No underside/or side of breast showing
Close-ups should not have appearance of nudity
No suggestively eating fruit...or whatever
No ecstasy expressions
No writhing
No headbacks, arch necked in obvious ecstasy
Not too many corsets, lingerie in a row
No lesbian scenes (implied or otherwise)
No bestiality
No necrophilia
No homosexual scenes

VIOLENCE
No bullets to bodies
No stabbing
No more than two kicks or punches in a row
No bodies on fire
No disgusting/gross dead bodies
Not too much blood on face
No pounding/smashing of heads
No head-crunching
No running over of body
No electric shocking
No examples of violence that would give someone an idea to do the same thing (i.e. throwing a blow dryer into a bathtub)
No guns to head
No knife carving into skin
No drilling to teeth or body parts
No blood oozing
No needles in skin
No drinking alcohol
No irresponsible calls for intoxication

Where? I'm Low On Gas And You Need A Jacket

New York City that's where!! For those of you who haven't heard yet, I'm leaving "The City" of San Francisco in search of greater opportunities. A month from now I'll be in New York City sleeping on a friend's couch, looking for a place to call my own, and hustling hard to find the next film editing opportunity. If the last year has taught me anything it's that filmmaking, with editing in particular, is where my passion truly lies. Although if you've known me for any of the last 6 years you probably already had that figured out.
I've called SF home for the last 6+ years and I'll admit I'm going to miss it a lot but on the other hand it's time to move on and really go after my dreams (and yes, I realize that sounds corny, suck it). Not to worry though, I'll always be a California boy. And to all you California peoples, at some point you better get your asses back east and visit Melanie and I.

And yes, once I'm in NYC, Chris Iversen and I do intend to finally get around to making the long awaited music video for the Man Fest Destiny song, Alcatraz.

- Cdigs

Navel Spin On An Ice Cube With Her Hair On Fire! It's American Dreamers Episode # 9

Episode # 9 of the American Dreamers web series dropped today. I worked on it so you all should check it out. It's about the Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque and is about 4 minutes long if I remember correctly. Thanks in advance to all the cool dudes and dudettes who watch it!

From Crackle: American Dreamers: Dixie Dynamite, Ep. 9

you can also watch the rest of the episodes at:

crackle.com/c/American_Dreamers

Enjoy,
Cdigs