Screening Dates Announced!

Okay, we got word from Cinequest of our premiere dates and times:

Monday, March 6th 7.15pm and Friday, March 10th 9.30pm at Camera 12 Cinemas in downtown San Jose.

We're so excited to have the dates down. This morning we attended the Cinequest press conference and got to eat yummy quiche and sit next to a major newspaper writer while trying to not dribble my orange juice. We were one of three films featured by Cinequest at the press conference and it was an honor to be there. I ran into old radio friends of mine there. It's funny, since I worked in radio for eight years before crossing over to the visual medium, I have a sense of compassion for people working for big corporations like my radio friends do. On an individual level they totally support what we're doing and the curse is they are major media figures and due to corporate content qualifications, they can't touch subjects like this. Their stations are meant to create entertaining content to allow people to forget there's war, poverty, discrimination and the like. So there's no room for discussion of real issues like this on their airwaves. Makes one wonder how much we don't hear. How much content isn't talked about because it's too real.

Well, that's why there's documentary makers and film festivals. So, support them if you want to hear different stories and not just the message that "everything's just fine, now go back to WalMart." Speaking of which, have you watched the recently released WalMart documentary by Robert Greenwald? Make sure to watch the DVD extras, especially the parody commercials. Oh my gosh, the "sales associate" had me in stitches with that canned opening. That's a dream job for me, doing parody commercials...anyway, you can get the doc from NetFlix and a bunch of other outlets. Check it out. Don't be afraid to learn more about the wizard behind the curtain.