Last night we had the world premiere of our short film “The Harvest Festival” (aka Honen Matsuri) at the RIIFF in Providence. The film is a behind-the-scenes look at the annual fertility festival in Komaki, Japan, and was cut from extra footage that we shot…
Last night, we had the honor of presenting a 7-minute video about our new project ‘The Interpreter’ at the first ever TEDxMinneapolis event. The piece was well received, and when the subjects — a US veteran and his Iraqi interpreter — stood up to be…
Yesterday I ventured to SiriusXM’s midtown offices and went on The All Out Show with Rude Jude to talk about ‘The Dickumentary’. I was greeted in the lobby by my name misspelled on the welcome board as Sofia, which happens to me all the time…
The Atlantic featured an exclusive clip from the science segment of The Dickumentary today. This includes interviews with Diane Kelly and Particia Brennan of UMASS and John Long of Flinders University. See the post at: http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/392735/why-mammals-have-penises/?fb_ref=Default
Last night, I was a remote participant in the Bay Area Video Coalition’s annual 4×10 screening series in San Francisco. Four in-progress films are viewed by a panel who then provide both verbal and written feedback. We presented an 8-minute clip of our new documentary…
Last night, I had the pleasure of screening ‘Naked Ambition’ at Videology in Brooklyn as part of the VideoTales show hosted by Harmon Leon. The monthly show features storytelling and video. People get up and narrate their experiences using video as an aid. In my…
Sometime back, I did an audio interview with Peter Levin of Splash Studios for his company’s blog. We had just completed the final mix of “The Dickumentary” together and he wanted to discuss the film and a little bit about the mix. Yesterday, the interview…
With our two feature documentaries completed and released, we did some looking back early this year and compiled a behind-the-scenes compilation of our travels over the past three years. Sound recordist, mixer and musical wunderkind Evan Manners provided the track, created using samples of a…
A short film I wrote & directed, starring Aizzah Fatima and Sam Osterhout, had its premiere at the NYIFF last night. We screened with two other films to a nearly full house, and were thrilled to hear the audience laughing throughout. Last year our short ‘Stuff’…
Yesterday, we screened ‘Gaucho del Norte’ at the DC Labor Fest, courtesy of one of our funders on the project — The Latin America Immigration Taskforce Network. They were key in helping us to finish the project by providing us with a grant when we…
