2010: Mission Accomplished.

("Antithesis" Director Jon-Carlos Evans, Honolulu, April 2010)
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January
At about 12:07 AM January 1, 2010, I was cleaning up my cookies (both literally and figuratively) from the bathroom floor of Bibim Bar after a New Year's sake shot that was preceded by a bottle of champagne, red wine et. al. Next day: Massive Headache.

On January 9, 2010. I sat down to write the screenplay for "All Tomorrow's Children." Ten months later, the script is done (if there is ever such a thing) and production is on for November 2011 in St. Louis, MO (no excuses). Stay tuned for updates as that journey unfolds because it's going to happen more quickly than any of us expect.

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April
Mansions and ghost stories. No sleep.

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"Antithesis" receives a Honolulu Accolade Award from the Honolulu Film Festival (now known as the Honolulu Film Awards.). I, however, did not receive my bags from DELTA AIRLINES. I flew from NYC to PHX, where I slept in the airport, and then the next to Honolulu. After twenty phone calls, I finally find out that my bags will never reach Hawaii before I leave. I accept my fate and buy a new black t-shirt, after spending every Hawaiian morning people watching in IHOP. Eventually, the sun heals all things and I make some new filmmaker friends over a night walk on the beach to a locals bar safe from tourists.

May
"Anithesis" receives the Silver Palm at the Mexico International Film festival. I miss the ceremony in Mexico, but spend an important weekend with mi madre in St. Louis. A few weeks later, "Antithesis" screens at the CUNY Asian-American Film Festival and wins Second Place for Narratives. I think this was the largest audience to date . . .

Jog forward.

Señor Ezequiel Sarudiansky (aka Zeke the Argentine) and I have the pleasure of meeting while he serves as the Editor and myself as the Assistant Editor on Luis Argueta's "abUSed: The Postville."(see below). While in the trenches of editing room chaos, I find out Zeke (like many filmmakers) is a musician and fronts an electronic group called Zurcidos Invisibles. I listen to the song "Aviador" and write a treatment while flying from NYC to Hawaii in April. Before Zeke is deported for smuggling Italian cats , I put together a small crew (a handful of old "Antithesis" players and photographer/toy friend/happy molester Pat Rivera. We shoot a really cool video on the Staten Island Ferry, Chinatown and the Upper West Side starring Zeke and Jean Goto for Zurcidos Invisbles. You won't see the video until the album comes out unfortunately, but here's a peek.

(CLICK THE IMAGES BELOW FOR A LINK TO A ZURCIDOS INVISIBLES PROMO)

Image credits: Jon-Carlos Evans (Left) & Pat Rivera (Right)

July
"Antithesis" strikes again at the 2010 Asian-American International Film Festival and plays at the Quad Cinema in NYC.

August
Newport, RI! Seaside mansions, a vineyard and a history of the American Gilded Age. I have a feeling I'll return here again.

September
Remember, if you work for a television show where animals are the subject, you will at some point get bitten. I'll forgive that chihuahua, but I won't forget. A size 11.5 is waiting for you, my friend. I swear that.

October
Three days weekend in paradise . . ..
My first experience as a professional at the New York Comic-Con was like seeing a perfect society - everyone in costume and everyone walking around with a fairly functional weapon (mostly samurai swords because genre fans are civilized people after all). We did a lot of promotion for "Antithesis" by giving out postcards, but the most interesting part was how even though JG was in costume as "A," she barely stood out. When a 5 foot tall man is dressed as Optimus Prime and break-dancing, then I guess a girl with red hair and tiger fur looks pretty tame.

Image Credit: Juan Loney

Valuable lesson learned from NYCC '10 : Your audience is often whoever you were ten years ago. (Think about it . . .)

Jog forward.

Halloween. Three new actresses, a Man With No Face and a bare bones crew came together for the first shoot in a series of pieces for a new project. Over the course of 2011, we should be able to finish the entire project.

Check out the teaser by clicking on any of the images below.









image credits: Jon-Carlos Evans (Left) & Ludgy Wu (Right)

November
Two years and three months after meeting filmmaker/friend/master samaurai Luis Argueta, we premiered "abUSed: The Postville Raid" at Symphony Space in NYC in the Leonard Nimoy Theatre to a crowd of about 450. Where did the time go???

Click below to check out the teaser for a documentary about the largest, most expensive immigration raid in U.S. history.


November 14. Nine months and five days later, I complete the first draft for "All Tomorrow's Children." Let the rewrites begin until . . . the film is done. So it goes . . .

December
Rum cake hangover . . . December 31. 11:59 PM. Shooting the Drive By Truckers at Terminal 5 with the iClips mob.

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"2010"

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