Friday, October 3, 2008
Clean Living
The economic crises. Seems to be on a lot of people's minds. And frankly I'm quite sick of it. Not that i'm sick of hearing about it but I'm sick of being freaking poor as hell. I know that a lot of money went to my shooting True Perfection and stuff.
But just as much money is going to go to bills next pay check as the one before PLUS we're still shooting some stuff
But this is the path I've chosen, so i will bite the bullet and spend lots of money on OTV, True Perfection and hundreds on HH festival fees.
On another note, I saw Ghost town and thought it was quite funny. Sometimes it's nice to have a good laugh.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Duchess
I saw the Duchess last night and it was terrible!
how these types of movies get made is beyond me, with these blazee characters. I mean the acting was great, but the writing was awful.
But on the good news I found out I can write off going to movies as a tax deduction since I am a filmmaker. It's weird and very cool to be called an "artist" technically.
Beyond that, I'm going to the Samuel French store on Saturday to get the book of agents in the LA area, I'm going to spend the next few months dedicating myself to getting a directing agent and a literary agent and by god I will do it!
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Friday, September 26, 2008
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evidently blogger has a scheduled outage at 4:00PM
I feel the awkwardness of this inbetween stage to be overwhelming. In the sense that I love directing so much and the shoot of True Perfection turned out so well, then I had to pick myself up Monday morning at 8:15 and bike over to my low level job at a Production Company.
It's a pain in the ass to require money to do what I do, but I know I couldn't survive without this job. Right now so many things are in the midst tho. I am in the works of getting an agent for directing and literary. I am also in the midst of selling Happy Holidays and OTV just got picked up by a small Indie Channel which is rad!!! I know this will all pay off in the long run and I'm sure that by May 2009 (my projected goal) I will be getting paid for doing what I love. It's just a matter of getting there.
BAM
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
America
Ohhhh so many things to post about!
The pressure of shooting is upon me again which is never fun. I wish that I had money to make this short and it wasn't like Happy Holidays in the fact that we have to cut corners for everything.
The one good thing about it however, is it is not like HH in the fact that getting people to help me cut corners is much easier. It's nice to have the confidence of friends and co-workers that I am doing the right thing, that they trust me as a filmmaker.
However, at my job I, like when I was a server am getting quite tired of people. This might sound weird to someone who doesn't understand what its like to constantly have to interact with human beings, but it's really disgusting how rude and cut throat people are. I would say about 70% of the people I interact with, mostly the regular people at work are great! But it's the people that come in and out, the phone calls that are just revolting. It makes you loose hope in humanity when even on a small scale, people are so eager to create a caste system, to treat younger people with no respect because they feel their age entitles them to be assholes. That because they have an extra zero at the end of their paycheck beyond yours, they have the right to disregard you as a person.
There is a difference between deserving respect and feeling entitled to service.
I worry that human beings are naturally assholes, that our natural state is to fuck over everyone around you in the hope of staying alive for a second longer. Those people are selfish and only see out of their own eyes. They make rash decisions not understand how what they do directly effects everyone around them, from people in a store to friends and family. They are polluting the earth not only with toxins, but with negativity.
The optimist or "real" me, wants to disagree, wants to believe that we can all get along and disregard social class, race, sex orientation, gender, and just progress into a happy future. But the cynical part of me thinks McCain will be elected.
Man that felt good to write!
posted by Sassy Mohen @ 11:38 AM
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Fresh off the Boat
So I'm not quite sure how this happened, but in the past week i've been contacted by people to
1) Review HH
2) interview me
3) Screen HH for possible investors for my next film/promotion for HH
it's nice that finally everything I dreamed about while making the film is actually happening. And also bittersweat that it's happening now. I've fought really hard to get here, and now so many things seem possible.
On Sunday we blocked scene two of True Perfection then went out on the street and "faux" shot it with the On the Verge camera.
It was incredible to see the actors bring it to life and I cannot wait to make this film. It's going to be 20 times better than HH. Of course not to say HH was bad, but one would hope in three years I'd learn a thing or two.
Check out the first review of HH. I am actually quite happy with it. There's a few things I don't think it did justice too, but overally 3.5 stars is better then lots of bigger films.
http://insulinfunk.net/2008/08/18/happy-holidays-s-mohen-2008/
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Abundance
So we have another camera person for On the Verge now, named Tessa.
She is amazing. And she said something along the lines of "I really admire and commend you for what you're doing. When I was in college I wanted to make narrative features but then my path lead me to make documentaries. It's so hard to think about all the set backs there are, but you have something amazing, you have an abundance of accomplishment and people supporting you. That is hard to achieve"
And it's so easy to get swept away in how hard everything is. But when you sit back and think about it. It's like wow. I have accomplished a lot. that's great.
the fish on my desk is swimming
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Friday, August 15, 2008
3 Projects for the Price of None
Right now I am working on three projects.
Not only am I working on them, I am running them.
Still submitting HH to festivals which takes up time and money. I've spent to much on it already so I have to cool off with submitting for a while and just stick to everything else for two weeks
Doing on the verge which requires funding. and then now rehearsals for True Perfection every night. Although I love each, I'm terrified of True Perfection becoming Happy Holidays pt.2 in terms of funding because I don't want it to be.
In fact I will make it not be. But RIght now we're just making everything in order to get the money. Oh complications. If only I were born rich or the daughter of Steven Speilberg, this would be less hard.
but then when I do accomplish something it makes it so worth it. But while you're in the middle of struggling so hard it's very difficult to think that way.
On top of working 9-6 every day.
I need a vacation. I need time for a vacation. Money for a vacation?
oh well, at least i'm doing this all for something I love. Imagine if it were something I hated like Chemistry. YECH
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