New Blog Renter and Behind the Scenes

Dave at Weezil Breezes was kind enough to rent my blog this week. He's an Arizona dad / musician / writer with several blogs and this one has his personal stories and observations. Please go pay him a visit by clicking that Featured Blog thumbnail in the right column. It would be nice if at least one of my blog renters got some decent traffic out of this.

Today's video is a behind the scenes featurette from my first film, Washington Interns Gone Bad. This was shot on one of our final days of shooting in the spring of 2002 and I think it captures the chaos of no-budget underground filmmaking pretty well. I found inspiration to make this film dancing on the bar of an Adams Morgan dive one night. These two girls were drunkenly dancing on top of the bar and they reeked of a Capitol Hill internship. This was also right after the Summer of Chandra which turned into the Autumn of Osama, so the political climate was a bit insane to say the least. The screenplay came together in about a month. I was writing it on my Handspring Visor wherever I was whenever inspiration struck. It took about a month. It took another month to crew up and cast it. Then one month of furious shooting before two lead actors moved away, and another two months of less than furious shooting, and a whole summer of editing. It opened to huge sold out crowds in DC, and has since played at a few festivals, including the upcoming Tromanale in Berlin, Germany. Everything I know about making movies I learned by making mistakes on this one.