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Dwight Schrute and Me

Posted on: February 7th, 2011 by wmapother 4 Comments

Back in the Stone Age of 2002, before Facebook, before Obama, before recorded history, nearly, I shot a short film called Self Storage that was written and directed by my friend Peter O’Brien.

One of the most fun parts of this business is never knowing whom you’ll work with, or who you’re working with will become.

In this case, my co-stars were the lovely and talented Catherine Kellner and…Rainn Wilson, long before he became known to everyone as beet farmer extraordinaire Dwight Schrute of The Office.  He’s definitely no beet farmer in this film..

Peter has posted the short film online, and you can watch it here:  http://vimeo.com/19624198

Posted in Acting Projects, Film, News & Events, Random, Video (Online & Home)

Flyover – Get Aboard!

Posted on: February 4th, 2011 by wmapother 2 Comments

The film fest I co-founded, Louisville’s Flyover Film Fest, is now taking submissions via withoutabox.com for this June: flyoverfilmfestival.com

Posted in Film Festival, Louisville & KY

Indie Film….Resurrected

Posted on: February 2nd, 2011 by wmapother 3 Comments

The recent crop of films and film sales at Sundance has many people speaking of a resurgence/return of independent film.  EW’s Owen Gleiberman has a very positive piece here.

Posted in Film

Twittering

Posted on: January 30th, 2011 by wmapother 2 Comments
I’ve succumbed to the Twitter tsunami.  You can find me @williammapother, or on the web here.
Posted in Website & Social Media

Sundance Report – Le Fin

Posted on: January 30th, 2011 by wmapother 6 Comments

What a difference a week makes.  Brit Marling and Mike Cahill have rocketed off in the indie film world, and Another Earth has been shown nothing but love up at Sundance.

We premiered on Monday in a 1200-seat theatre to a standing ovation (very rare at Sundance, I’m told), and to the right is my (blurry) view from stage during the post-Q&A.

Then within the next few days, Fox Searchlight bought the film and will release it theatrically both in the U.S. and internationally.  To the right is the poster that was used at the fest…

Finally, last night at the awards ceremony, Another Earth was given both the Sloan Prize for Science and a Special Jury Prize for Drama.

And all from such humble beginnings…

Many great reviews are all over the web, so I’ll just include one, from the NYT, here.

Finally, one of my final memories:  snow and a (relatively) early hour produce the unusual sight of somewhat empty streets at this year’s festival..

Posted in Acting Projects, Film Festival, Photos by Wm