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Sundance Report – First 28 Hrs

Posted on: January 23rd, 2011 by wmapother 8 Comments

Bottom line: Busy, tiring, fun. Stop. Stayed out too late last night. Curse my Slated partners this morning. Stop. Sidewalks very busy, esp. with snow and some heavy snowage today. Serious about not parking (see sign at right). Stop.

Interviews and photo shoots apparently not disasters. We’ll see. Stop. Another Earth generating lots of interest for its intriguing premise. Stop. Pianist playing on sidewalk for passersby and bear (bear right). Stop. Accidental, first-time meeting with fellow actor from Louisville Jess Weixler (Teeth). Stop. Such is the fun of Sundance.

Posted in Acting Projects, Film, Film Festival, In Person (or, like, Live), Interviews and Q&A's, Louisville & KY, Photos by Wm, Random, Slated

Park City, here comes Another Earth

Posted on: January 21st, 2011 by wmapother 6 Comments

Off tomorrow morning for the Sundance festival. I’m kind of prepared but not really. Have probably packed too much of the wrong things, most questionable ideas of how to answer the inevitable unanswerable questions from the press, What would you do if there really were another earth, How do you feel, and the perennial What’s your favorite _____?

Fingers crossed that our little movie gets shown some love..

Posted in Film, Film Festival, Random

Sun-, er, Slamdance Slated app

Posted on: January 18th, 2011 by wmapother 1 Comment

As I’ve posted about before, Slated hosts online film guides for film festivals via its Festival Genius service, which offers easy searchability, customized, conflict-free schedules, integrated ticketing, and film ratings.

Slated offers a free iPhone app (here), which includes all the film festivals it hosts. This app includes a festival’s entire line-up of films, events, etc., including up-to-the minute changes. If you’ve every had to carry around a paper schedule, you’ll appreciate just how much sense this makes.

Certain festivals, however, also hire Slated to create a dedicated iPhone app just for their festival. The most recent festival to do just that is this week’s Slamdance festival (held in Park City, Utah, at the same time and right alongside the Sundance festival).

Slamdance counts among its many alumni such filmmakers as Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s 11, 12, 13), Christopher Nolan (Inception), Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Quantum of Solace), and Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite).

You can download the free Slamdance/Slated iPhone app here.

Posted in Film, Film Festival, Slated, Tech

Press Bits for ‘Another Earth’

Posted on: January 15th, 2011 by wmapother 3 Comments

Several films in next week’s Sundance Festival have a Louisville connection. Louisville’s alternative weekly magazine, LEO, devoted their cover story here this week to the films, and there’s a bit on me and Another Earth.

Ain’t It Cool News has a rundown of the films they’re looking forward to seeing, and they list AE among them here. (It’s about two pages down.)

Also, yesterday’s USA Today has a story on some of the films — including AE at Sundance here, and a sampling of photos here.

Posted in Acting Projects, Press

New Sudan on Cable VOD

Posted on: January 14th, 2011 by wmapother 2 Comments

Because of the historic vote occurring in southern Sudan, recently I’ve been asked a number of time how people can see The New Sudan, the documentary I narrated on the region.

Good news for those interested: Starting today, and for the next 90 days, it will be available as Video on Demand on the following cable systems:

Access Comm., ATT U-Verse, Blue Ridge, Bluewater TV Cable, Cable Cable Inc., Charter, Eastlink Comm., KPU, Mediacom, NorthwestTel Cable, Rogers (Canada), Seaside Comm., Source Cable, Verizon Fios., and Wave.

The voting continues this week on the referendum to secede from the north and end decades of bloodshed and oppression. On Monday the NY Times ran an update here.

Posted in Charitable Causes, Voice

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