24 posts tagged “tooth fairy”
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 network that plays in Ohio and southern Indiana.
Considering that Tooth Fairy is playing in both family film showings and horror showings, it's perfect for a TV Halloween special!
Yay!
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 kind enough to give us a room at the Courtyard Marriott for the weekend. It was a really nice hotel, much nicer than I was expecting. The festival did a great job welcoming us. On Friday night, we missed our flight (DOH!) so we were really late for the Friday night party. In fact, there was only one filmmaker pair there with their family. We hung out with them for about an hour, and had a nice chat with Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas who flew out from NY. Later in the festival, their documentary, Freeing Silvia Baraldini, won the best documentary award! We were really excited for them because they had obviously put in a lot of work over the 8 year trek of their film. Congratulations again to Margo and Lisa!
Saturday morning, I attended a filmmakers' workshop by Warren Etheredge of the Warren Report, who also MC'd the awards brunch on Sunday. Wow, what an entertaining speaker. I'll have to do another post just on his workshop presentation because I got a lot out of it. I really wanted to chat with him after the workshop but it ended just as my film was starting so I had to say a quick thank you and run off.
The Tooth Fairy showing was...well...awesome! :-) It was great fun seeing the film on the big screen. The audience laughed in all the right places and clapped enthusiastically at the end. It was fun! There was a Q&A session at the end but it was very short due to the schedule. I quickly mentioned how I learned VFX for the film and that my crowning achievement was digitally changing the sheets on the bed to fix a continuity problem.
Oh, and I really, really enjoyed wearing the "filmmaker" badge. :-)
Sunday brunch was also good. We sat at the table with Mark Hug and May Charters who were from LA. They made a film called Lovers in a Dangerous Time which played on opening night. At the table were also the filmmakers of a film called Spooners, which is supposed to be really great and we regret having missed it, but they were hung-over and weren't socially alert enough to give me their cards, so no link for them on this post.
Overall, it was a fun weekend. Many thanks to all the festival volunteers, and a special thanks to the festival coordinators, Emily and Rachel, who made us feel welcome!
Susan Ee
www.Tooth-Fairy-Movie.com
www.feraldream.com
Tooth Fairy will be playing at the Big Water Film Festival Nov 6-8! It’s on the shore of Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin. It sounds like a sweet community that would genuinely appreciate our little movie. Besides, you can't beat the certificate they sent us!!
That is the last of the festivals for now. This brings our acceptance rate up to 40%!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Today at 2 (noon on the west coast), TOOTH FAIRY will premier at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival! Tooth Fairy will play as part of Kids Shorts at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S Wabash, 8th Fl., Chicago. It sounds like an awesome program! Wish I could be there.
It cracks me up that TOOTH FAIRY got into both children's programs and horror programs. Here is the schedule of upcoming showings so far:
Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival – Sun. Sept 13 at 2 PM, Film Row Cinema, Chicago http://www.projectchicago.com/
Tacoma Film
Festival – Sat. Oct. 3rd at noon, Grand Cinema, Tacoma, WA
http://www.grandcinema.com/page.php?id=43
Dark Carnival Horror Festival – Oct 2-4, Bloomington, IN, final schedule yet to be determined
http://www.darkcarnivalfilmfest.com/
Independents Film Festival – Nov. in Tampa, FL, final schedule yet to be determined
http://independentsfilmfest.com/
Utopia Film Festival – Oct 19-25 in Greenbelt, MD, final schedule yet to be determined
http://www.utopiafilmfestival.org/
Click! Network - Tacoma’s cable TV network, video on demand, Oct.
The Education Channel – Tampa’s cable TV network, Nov.-Dec.
http://tecc.tv/educationchannel.org/index.php
Check it out if you're in the area!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
I just found out that TOOTH FAIRY got into the Dark Carnival festival! This one sounds especially FUN!!
Dark Carnival is a horror festival, complete with a week-long celebration of horror culminating in a weekend of festival films. They screen indie horror films from all over the world in cool venues like a vintage drive-in, and a historic 1930's era theater with state-of-the-art technology and an enormous screen. They do things like a mashup of cinema and live performance with blood spraying on the audience as part of the pre-festival film celebration. :-) They have filmmaking and fx workshops and celebrity guests, etc. It's in Bloomington Indiana (home of Indiana University), and was voted one of "The Top 25 Festivals Worth the Entrance Fee" by Movie Maker Magazine.
The films will be shown Oct 2-4, final schedule to be determined.
Good times!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
I just got a screener request for TOOTH FAIRY from a major Hollywood management firm called Underground Film & Management. Underground manages writers and has a great reputation. I'm FedExing a DVD to them today. Needless to say, my friend Eric, who wrote Tooth Fairy, is thrilled! Let's keep our fingers crossed for him!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Just got the program for the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival. Tooth Fairy will play as part of Kids Shorts on Sunday, Sept 13th at 2PM at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S Wabash, 8th Fl., Chicago.
The logline for the film is:
In the heart of suburbia, a little boy sets a trap for the Tooth Fairy and discovers that even innocence has a dark side.
Looks like a great festival. If you're in the area, check it out!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
I just got notification that Tooth Fairy got into its fourth festival! It's great fun getting congratulations notes from festivals. The Utopia Film Festival runs Oct 19-25 in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Some of the news that got missed during my break from the blog is that my film, TOOTH FAIRY, got accepted into three film festivals: Tacoma Film Festival, Independents Film Festival in Tampa, and Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival. It will also be playing on local cable TV stations in Tacoma and Tampa. Yeah!
Most of the fests said they had a record breaking number of entries this year. The Chicago International REEL Shorts Fest had over 900 entries. I'm especially excited because TOOTH FAIRY cost $250, and was shot with a crew of 3 including me. :-) The other short films I've seen cost $2,000-$10,000, with a crew of 25-30.
I just got the details on the Tacoma Film Festival. TOOTH FAIRY will be shown on Sat. Oct 3rd at noon at Grand Cinema under the category of family shorts. It's a little dark for a "family" film, but it does star a cute kid and the music is upbeat and fun, so I guess that was enough to make it a family film. The Sat. showtime is especially good because the festival runs from the 1st through the 8th, and my film is showing on the one party weekend the festival covers. The festival organizers are especially supportive of the filmmakers and will try to provide accommodations for us. :-) So I think I'll go.
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Wow, an unintended break. It's been almost 2 months since I last posted. I didn't intend to stop blogging, I just got distracted and before I knew it, 2 months had gone by.... During that time, a Russian economist has declared that the US is disintegrating, 2008 turned into 2009, YouTube changed from 4:3 to 16:9 and then went HD. SAG is still threatening to strike - they might as well threaten to go on a hunger strike because that's about how self-destructive it would be.
So what have I been doing? At first, I went into a creative mode where all else was consumed by my obsession over making an animated book trailer for my novel, WAR GAMES. Then, I remembered I had never done animation before, ran into technical difficulties, and I geeked out. Right now, I'm somewhere between my creative mode and geek-out mode (I know, some might say I'm always in this state). I just bought Cinema 4D from someone on Craigslist who may or may not be part of the Russian mob; I also bought one of the last Comic Book Creator programs despite the fact that it looks like the makers are going out of business; ordered a new over-the-top mobile battlestation (aka "notebook computer"); sent out some DVDs of TOOTH FAIRY to film festivals; killed my power supply in my desktop which is now open under my desk with its guts spilling out; got a new terabyte (!!!) second hard drive for my desktop and a 64G (!!!) USB drive for Christmas (I hear other girls want jewelry as gifts -- can you imagine?); got my butt kicked clear across silicon valley by a group of graduates of the Stanford EE masters program in a game I never heard of before; and I ate a pound of Trader Joe's milk chocolate with almonds. There you have it -- now you're all caught up.
Happy New Year!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
