Speakeasy Bookmark by Esther Pearl Watson
Smart Gals will also be showing off their awesome collection of bookmark art and hand-made pillows with writing excerpts (including one by yours truly). You can get some more details from my blog post on the event.
A feature film I wrote recently (in story collaboration with the producers) is now going into financing and pre-production.
The film’s called RIDE THE NINE, and it’s an unusual take on a pool hustling story. Very intimate, noirish, and doing a good job of both satisfying and subverting the conventions one might expect of the genre. [...]
In the past week, we’ve gotten word that TEXAS 1960 has been accepted in three great festivals:
1. The Lone Star International Film Festival is held in Fort Worth, Texas. I can’t tell you how excited we are to screen in the state after using it as our fictional setting. We’d come close with the Dallas [...]
We’ve heard back from our first festival submission, and it was a yes! Texas 1960 will be screened at the Olympia Film Festival in a program scheduled for Monday, November 9th. I’m going to try to be there… it’s a great excuse to see Olympia again, home to great music and art… I grew up [...]
Doing a hard-drive cleanup, I found the sketches I did a couple years ago that wound up being the seed of the script for TEXAS 1960.
They look pretty mean… The fellas in TEXAS 1960 aren’t nearly so tough.
Taking the opportunity to share some screen grabs from the TEXAS 1960 short. They were captured willy-nilly from inside the work environment during editing, so they’re low-res and not color-corrected.
You’ll also see a photo of writer/director Christopher working with actress Milly Sanders.
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