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Video demo of past 200 Years

Posted on: February 14th, 2011 by wmapother 4 Comments

As long as the intensity of Dr. Hans doesn’t scare you, I think you’ll enjoy this BBC video explaining the past 200 years of world progress in only 4 minutes…

 It’s here.

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

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

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.

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.