Aspect Ratio

A friend and fellow filmmaker, Rain Bennett, shared this video from Filmmaker IQ (@FilmmakerIQ). And I love it. Ohhhh, how I wish I’d seen this long before I started making my first film. Thought y’all might like learning about the history of aspect ratio,...

Saving Mr. Banks

Two of my favorite actors, Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, are going to be in a movie titled Saving Mr. Banks. I can’t help but get excited about this movie after seeing the first official still (via The Film State and Time). Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney. Emma...

Upcoming Deadlines

The team is working hard to meet our deadlines on the documentary film. We have a few big deadlines next week. The pressure is definitely on. Right now I can tell you that we’re working really hard to get stuff together so we can finally start to share things...

Bankable Talent

Bankable talent is a fascinating thing to me. There are actors who consistently select great projects to be a part of and I’ll go to the theater to see them almost every time. This isn’t a personal thing for me, obviously, it’s an industry-wide thing...

Thoughts about “Abandoned Allies”

I can’t stop thinking about Abandoned Allies these days. I know that version of the film is finished, but I want to spend more time with the folks I met. They are such interesting people. I want, desperately, to tell their stories–even more beautifully on...