Our frickin phenomenal musicman Pete just announced that Puzzletree Music will start accepting pre-orders for the ALLY Soundtrack starting January 11th…just in time for our Seattle screening!! Fantastic! Pre-Order the ALLY Soundtrack here…
A Director’s Statement Six years into the making of A Lot Like You, we were still trying to figure out its narrative framework. At this point, both Dad and I were narrating the film, which was problematic because our two interweaving storylines were not distinct and separate enough from each other. […]
With this momentous year drawing to a close, we’re not above waxing nostalgic about the incredible ride this film has taken us on–from 0 to 100 in 7 years. Check out our film’s journey in pictures…
the more i write, the more i need to write. i find this fact profoundly liberating and maddening. at my most disciplined, i write 3 pages first thing every morning…a shotgun prose-free, stream of consciousness brain dump to clear my head and make way for my day. for me, this […]
A Lot Like You receives Artist Trust funding In 2010, Artist Trust received 795 applications from artists working in all disciplines across Washington State. The Grants for Artists Projects (GAP) program provided up to $1,500 to 63 outstanding Washington artists for various projects. A Lot Like You was awarded the full amount […]
When this film journey began, never could I have imagined that 7 years later, I would be in the East Wing of the White House, waiting to present President Obama with the DVD of my film, A Lot Like You. But there I was, sipping champagne with approximately 100 […]
Only 85 months after I first signed up for film class, the journey of bringing A Lot Like You to the screen has come to an end. Marc Brown generously offered to host a screening in AlphaCine’s beautiful theater. So on August 12th, we had an intimate screening for the creative team and […]
Starting July 26th, Eric and I spent a week over at Bad Animals working on the sound mix with Dave Howe. He’d already mapped out the sound design for the film, complete with effects, natural sound, and foley. I’d been told that nothing enhances the movie experience more than sound design, but had […]
While the rest of the world was frolicking (or wilting) in the summer sun, I was locked away in a dark, hermetically sealed room deep in the recesses of AlphaCine. Together with our brilliant colorist, Marc Brown, we tweaked, corrected and enhanced the color of every scene in the film. After […]
This past week has been incredibly trying. Eric and I went rounds about one final piece that he (and many others) felt needed to be included in the film. It’s a piece I felt reluctant to put in, because I didn’t understand where this need was coming from, and […]