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Charity Giving for Free: CauseWorld

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:33:19 -0800

Happy holidays, everyone! For all you broke filmmakers, writers, artists, and other people with more heart than money, here's a free way to spread good cheer to charities and start the new year right. CauseWorld is an iphone app where you dire...

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$300 YouTube Video Lands $30M Deal

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:51:30 -0800

Check out the story of the guy who made a YouTube video for $300 and landed a $30M deal with Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures. He put up the video on a Thursday and by Monday, he had a bidding war going for him. Pretty cool. Here's the video: ...

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Jane Doe's Suicide Post

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:42:59 -0800

For the first time, I have heavily censored a post. I am strongly pro-1st Amendment, and it doesn't sit right with me to do this. But there is no resolution of this situation that is going to make anyone feel better, so I have decided to respect...

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Halfway to a manuscript

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:03:20 -0800

This month is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The challenge is to write 50,000 words during the month of Nov. I dove in immediately after the World Fantasy Convention. The great people I met at the convention must have inspired me bec...

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World Fantasy Convention

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:38:10 -0800

I went to the World Fantasy Convention this week at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. It was my first World Fantasy Convention and I have to say that it ranked as my favorite of the four SF/Fan conventions I've attended (2 WorldCons and Wiscon). ...

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Tooth Fairy part of TV Halloween Special!

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:53:49 -0700

I just got word that TOOTH FAIRY will be included in a 3 hour Halloween TV special produced by Dark Carnival Film Festival and HorrorHound Magazine! It will air on October 24 at 8pm (EST) on Time-Warner channel 991, which is a local independent ...

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Latest Distribution Model

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:21:31 -0700

Paranormal Activities (a film made for $10,000 that ran the festival circuit and eventually got picked up by Paramount) reached a million requests for it to open in people's towns. Paramount used Eventful to set up a website in which fans can ask...

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Standard symbols

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:24:06 -0700

Sonnyboo's website has free downloads of standard symbols like festival laurels, DVD symbol, FBI warnings, film ratings, etc. That's where I got my festival laurels for my Tooth Fairy website, but I had to process it to make it transparent. Susa...

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Tacoma Film Festival weekend

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:03:44 -0700

A couple of us from TOOTH FAIRY made it to the Tacoma Film Festival this past weekend. Although Tooth Fairy played in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, this was the first festival I attended. I picked it among the other festivals because they were...

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Hybrid Book/Film

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:42:21 -0700

A few weeks ago, the creator of CSI released a book on paper where every 20 pages or so, the reader can go to a website, put in a password, and see a video that supposedly enhances the story. I just watched the "trailer" for it, expecting it to b...

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