WINNER!

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:46:28 -0800

CONGRATS LUCY!
Big congratulations are in order to A BAG OF HAMMERS producers Lucy Barzun Donnelly and the whole GREY GARDENS team for their big win last night at the Globes. Also big ups to Chloe Sevingy for her BIG LOVE win.

GOLDEN GLOBES

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:49:09 -0800

CONGRATS LUCY AND PETER
A BAG OF HAMMERS producers Peter Friedlander and Lucy Barzun Donnelly are both nominated for Golden Globes this year. For BIG LOVE and GREY GARDENS respectively, both for HBO. I am very proud of Lucy and Peter for producing such great work. They are an absolute joy to work with, great friends and well deserving of some statues.

BIG OLE UPDATE

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:09:21 -0700

SO A LOT HAS BEEN HAPPENING...
So much in fact I don’t know where to start. I have been remiss in my updating of all thing internet. My site, my blog; I feel ashamed. The reason, however is a good one. I have been busy in preproduction and casting for A BAG OF HAMMERS which will begin shooting in August. It has been an amazing process so far, and not to be boring, but I really love my team. The cast we are putting together is going to be a group of proper serious actors, all of whom I couldn’t be more excited about. I have been counting down the days toward shooting, story boarding, casting and casting and casting and working on a plan to get across the finish line. Anyway, I don’t know how much I will divulge as we go along, but watch this space for more.

Also in exciting news I signed up with ICM, my agents Todd and Nate are awesome and very funny and I’m quite happily situated there.

I’ll try and be better about updating.

REBECCA NOMINATED!

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:16:04 -0800

I’M A LITTLE EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
REBECCA HALL, HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY OR MUSICAL. THIS IS FANTASTIC AND WELL DESERVED FOR HER AMAZING WORK IN WOODY ALLEN’S VICKI CHRISTINA BARCELONA!

I HAVE SUCH A HUGE AMOUNT OF RESPECT FOR REBECCA AND WHILE IT IS TRENDY TO SAY AWARDS DON’T MATTER AND ITS ABOUT THE WORK AND ALL THAT...FUCK THAT IT MATTERS, ITS HUGE AND HAS BEEN EARNED! I’M SO HAPPY FOR HER.

New Skills

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:06:14 -0700

ZIGGY PLAYED GUITAR Just as a point of seemingly random interest...

I’m a person who really enjoys a challenge. And I’m like a junky when it comes to learning things and information. Especially information that is esoteric or non-essential for survival. I don’t know why. Raise your kids on University campuses and see what happens to them. Anyway, I thought I would briefly announce that in a few weeks here I will be endeavoring to pick up a new trade or hobby I suppose my be more accurate. I’m going to venture to Canada and train to build acoustic guitars under the guidance of master builder Sergei de Jonge. I couldn’t be more excited about this opportunity.

This study will be chronicled on line in some fashion, but I have as yet to decide how. You will be of course the first to know, assuming you read this before anyone else.

POLITIK : DIVIDED STATES

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:53:55 -0700

NEW POSITION PAPER This is a flippant position paper that I started writing on a mad tangent and then the more I think about it, the more I think it would work, and perhaps save the country. A lot of people who have read the piece think that in order to enact such a change would take a civil war, but I think it would commence a civil peace. Our country is deadlocked and our current crop of politicians aren’t the answer. Obama keeps saying “Washington is broken,” and for the longest time I wondered what he meant. Now I think I get it. Hope you like it and join in on the revolution!

DIVIDED STATES by BRIAN CRANO
I don't know if I want to throw up or shit or take a cold shower. Maybe hit my head against the sharp edge of a table. I have, of course, been watching the Republican National Convention. Barack Obama was wrong in 2004, when he said there aren't red states and blue states. Wrong. There are. This isn't one country it's two. Both are fallible - sure and it could be argued there are virtues to each, but they are not two halves of a cogent whole. Rather, an ex husband and wife dividing their once collected belongings by throwing them at each other's heads with all their mite. I am obviously a partisan. I am obviously a liberal, or a radical liberal and I am proud of it. As proud as these backwards hateful mindless conservatives are within say 200 yards of a flag on the lawn of a wounded veteran. I get the same tingles they do next to an abortion clinic run by mixed raced gay doctors who ride public transportation. We both enjoy our foibles, that's where I want to begin.

And so my point is simple, sometimes you gotta pack your things and go. All relationships end. Just ask anyone I've ever loved if you don't believe me. I think America is over. The honeymoon certainly has been for a long time. The bridge to nowhere might as well be a bridge to this make believe middle fakey concept of United States. Not Barack nor John, no, I don't believe anything or anyone can unite us. Because there is nothing to unite. The divisions are too severe, too too black and white. For abortion, or against it. There is no half, there is no middle. For gay marriage or against it. Again where is the middle? Pro date night? More war, no war. Institutionalized God, secular civilized society.

Why are we trying so hard to make it work? Are we that prideful, can we not admit our mistakes? It's been bad for years and it's worse than ever. Why are we in it for the children? Fuck the children, they'll do fine, they'll be better when mommy and daddy aren't fighting all the time. It's time to dissolve the union. The Divided States of America sounds pretty exciting to me. They could call their part Reganlandia for all I care. That should appease them. They can keep the flag too. They could follow in their namesake's footsteps and deny the existence of AIDS. They're half way there, clearly some of the children of the Republican ticket are already having trouble with the proper application of a condom.

There is no shame in division, only in mindless continuance. Both our agendas suffer from the obstructions of the other and we end up down the end of an political cul-de-sac with no where to go. Like two drunken hags fighting over a trailer park heart throb, who's been two-timing us all along. The prize is not that great.

I'd rather jump head first into a dry pool than hear another discussion of teaching creationism in public schools. You want to? Fine! Do it, but do it in Reganlandia. You want school vouchers and to deregulate everything and no taxes and no programs and no laws more forward looking than were conceived by a disciple of Christ suffering sunstroke 2000 years ago, sustaining his mind eating 65 calories of desert cactus a day and playing his favorite drinking game with his buddies - Thou Shalt Not______ ; fair enough, let me draw you a map to the heart of Reganlandia, Billings Montana - your new capital. You want to start a war on abstract concepts: drugs, terror, jealousy, be my guest, but there is no ideological draft in which I will participate, your new country is in the middle, enjoy Texas, I hear its a great time of year to be bigot there. You want to burn the constitution, the bill or rights, fuck - the magna carta, I'll send you a barrel (made in the [former] USA). Reganlandia, home of the big lie and just crusade!

We, the elite, Arugula people, who pride ourselves on of all things (hold your nose Reganites) education (eeeeeeew, makes squirm), can call our new country The Bicoastal Land Masses of Civil Liberties, Pacifism and Personal Freedoms. Sure it doesn't roll off the tongue but you get the message. We get the west and the north east. They can have the middle (what some have called the shit stain on the panties of the country) and Hawaii (our little gift). We'll power our equality agenda with wind, our health care with solar, our schools with hydro-electricity and the only thing we'll drill for is warmth and good nature towards others. We'll be indignant about genocide and remember the value of political protest. Women will earn an equal wage, everyone will earn an equal everything. We'll socialize anything that's not nailed down. And high quality dental care will be provided for the homeless with the money we save on bombs (which as it turns out will be very easy to sell off to Reganlandia, they are sure the British are coming back one day or the cave people or the locusts). The arms sales will pave the way for revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine. By farming research fetuses we will be able to cure everything from cancer to bacne, providing, en route, high paying research jobs for the people of New Orleans (now relocated to Las Vegas - between where the Barbary Coast and Ballys used to be).

Now as much as I loathe them, they have some good ideas. For instance, I do want learn something from their border security platform. I say in the B.L.M.C.L.P.P.F. we need to have some really secure borders to make sure none of the Reganlandians can climb our fences (or for that matter put old whiskey bottles on them for their target practice. And we must be careful not to travail their soils again either. As you know, they are proud gun-loving hunters, I've heard as for the length of their season, liberals are game all year round.

There's no shame in divorce, especially when you stand to gain so much by doing it (countless millions, for instance). A war hero taught me that. And this may be the one instance when I'm inclined to follow that old raisin's example.

United we fall, divided we stand. I'm standing, who's standing with me?

NEW PHOTOS

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:34:36 -0700

NEW PHOTO GALLERY So one of the more neglected area of this site are the festival photographs. This is easy to explain. When you travel around the world and go to festivals, the last thing you end up thinking about is taking pictures. Rather, you’re meeting new people, seeing their films, drinking to cope with all the bad films, making friends, etc. And if you don’t like having things in your pockets, a camera is clumsy! Any way I was better at Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films this year. It was a lot of fun this time around. Not as much I would say as Palm Springs ’07, which just had a more rowdy vibe. This year was a bit up tight in terms of the filmmakers, everybody was trying to sell something. Anyway I like this gallery making it’s kind of like scrap booking.

To see the new gallery click here or on the above link.

NEW POSTCARD

Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:34:03 -0700

TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW POSTCARD:

WORLD PREMIERE

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:46:42 -0700

ART ATTACKS PALM SPRINGS Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films is one of the most fun, rewarding, vital and full on film festivals for shorts in the world. We premiered RUBBERHEART there and now are very excited to have OFFICIAL SELECTION do the same thing.

OFFICIAL SELECTION is playing as part of the ART ATTACK program August 26, 2008. Yes its a bit of a drive from L.A. but the festival is really worth it. Palm Springs in August, you’ll come back with a perfect tan and full of all the short films you could want.

We are very excited.

for more information:
www.officialselectionthefilm.com
www.psilmfest.org

20

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:06:01 -0700

BACK TO LONDON FOR 20TH FESTIVAL!
I’m happy to announce that RUBBERHEART has grown out of its teens. The film has been invited to screen at the CANARY WHARF FILM FESTIVAL. We gladly accept the invitation. There will be multiple screenings of the film so please do stay tuned if you are in London for info as to when the screenings will take place.

V. NICE

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:02:10 -0700

RUBBERHEART GOES ANCESTRAL
Well to the home of my ancestors at least. I am so happy as a large part of my interest in the film business came about because of a few visits I made to the Venice International Film Festival. And now I am so happy that RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen in official competition at CIRCUITO OFF, VENICE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL. The festival takes place in Venice, Italy, from August 30 - September 5th. This is a truly amazing opportunity to return to one of our four favorite places on earth. Also notable are the festival's statues which can be seen below, they are very handsome. For those of you sports fans keeping score, this is festival number 19 for RUBBERHEART.

RUBBERHEART GOES NORTH

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:55:14 -0700

RUBBERHEART INVITED TO 18TH FESTIVAL
We are happy to announce that RUBBERHEART has been invited to participate in its 18th film festival. The 1 REEL FILM FESTIVAL which is presented by The Seattle International Film Festival as part of the Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival. The festival takes place from August 29 - September 1. And notable acts are Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, T.I. , and Zach Galifianakis!

What they say about the festival: "The 1 Reel Film Festival is part of Bumbershoot, Seattle's Music and Arts Festival which annually draws over 150,000 people to the grounds of the Seattle Center to celebrate the arts. Founded in 1995, 1 Reel is a Bumbershoot tradition, and is one of the nation’s best-attended short format festivals in the US, drawing over 20,000 filmgoers, filmmakers and industry members each year. Cash prizes are awarded in Short Film-Narrative and Short Film-Animation."

BRISBANETASTIC

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:55:42 -0700

RUBBERHEART INVITED TO 16TH FESTIVAL
The good news keeps piling up in the RUBBERHEART inbox. The short film has picked up its second summer screening in Australia. This one comes at the 17th Annual Brisbane International Film Festival, or BIFF to intimates. As some of you may know, the RUBBERHEART family has a cadre of Australian filmmakers for friends who are all lovely and exceptionally talented. Leading us to predict, if these guys are representative of the norm, the quality of this festival is sure to be quite high, even if attendance puts at risk the health and happiness of your Liver.
We don’t have solid screening dates yet, but this we know the festival will take place in Brisbane between July 31 - August 10, 2008. And if you want to take a look at the festival’s (award winning) website, you can do so at
www.biff.com.au

WEB PRESENCE

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:50:37 -0700

SCREENCAPS
Just wanted to share some screencaps of RUBBERHEART as it is listed on festivals’ websites around the world. Above is the Latitude Festival, below 2ANNAS in Latvia!

GIVE ME SOME LATITUDE

Thu, 22 May 2008 11:15:51 -0700

RUBBERHEART INVITED TO SCREEN AS PART OF A HUGE ARTS FESTIVAL
Hey Faithful Onlookers, more great news! RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen in its 14th festival - as part of the LATITUDE FESTIVAL 2008. It's kind of like the Cochella of England, except not just music. There is art and theatre and film to go along with some major music. I'm very excited to have the film screen in the UK again, my spiritual artistic home. For all kinds of info about the festival check out this link www.latitudefestival.com The festival takes place from July 17-20, 2008 in Suffolk.  Also appearing at the festival are: FRANZ FERDINAND, SIGUR ROS, INTERPOL, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, ELBOW, THE MARS VOLTA, BLONDIE, BRITISH SEA POWER, MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, ROSS NOBLE, THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE, PLAINES PLOUGH, THE BUSH THEATRE, NATIONAL THEATRE, RSC, AND MANY OTHERS.

USA USA USA

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:39:18 -0700

FINALIST
Just a quick note to inform the readership that RUBBERHEART has been selected as a finalist in the 30th Annual National Short Film & Video Competition, part of the USA FIL M FESTIVAL in Dallas. We are very pleased, they sent us a lovely commemorative certificate, in case we ever need to validate our standing in the festival competition.

2ANNASISFFIC

Thu, 8 May 2008 15:45:52 -0700

CRACKING LATVIA  or FIRST THE BALTIC, THEN THE WORLD
RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen at our 13th international festival as part of the 2ANNAS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. Or as it is sometimes known 2ANNASISFFIC. The festival takes place in Riga, Latvia, which we have heard is like the Montreal of the Baltic region. The festival takes place from May 27 - June 1, 2008.  Here is some interesting information about Latvia: • Riga has the largest airport in the Baltic states. • Latvia joined the European Union in 2004. • Since 1767 the population has grown from 19,500 to 722,485 in 2007 • Some of Riga's sister cities are : Kobe, Japan; Minsk, Belarus; Bremen, Germany; Cairns, Australia and Slough, United Kingdom. • Here is a weather report:

NOMINATED BEST SHORT

Fri, 2 May 2008 16:26:55 -0700

RUBBERHEART NOMINATED FOR BEST SHORT FILM INTERNATIONAL
I’m very pleased and proud to announce that RUBBERHEART has been nominated in the upcoming SWANSEA FILM FESTIVAL in the category BEST SHORT FILM (INTERNATIONAL).

We are proud to be screening at the festival and the nod just sweetens the pot! The festival takes place in June and hopefully we will be able to make it over.

AUDIENCE CHOICE 2

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:23:37 -0700

RUBBERHEART WINS EAST LANSING
I would like to announce that RUBBERHEART has won the second place AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD at the EAST LANSING FILM FESTIVAL. We are very proud. Thank you East Lansing.

CRACKING AUSTRALIA

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 20:06:22 -0700

NUMBER 12
The number 12 seems to factor heavily into my life. I think maybe I should have 12 children. Or 12 friends I travel with. In any case, I am so excited to announce the 12th festival for my baby film RUBBERHEART. I couldn’t be more pleased to be breaking into Australia. We have been invited to screen in the 10th Annual REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. As some of you know I have a network of friends and filmmakers who are from various parts of Australia that I met at our first festival when then invaded my home state with their great films, so I am excited to terrorize their homeland with mine.

The festival by all accounts is great and we are very much looking forward to it. The festival is apparently a cancer as it takes place July 3 - 13, 2008.

Book your plane tickets early, I hear it takes a long time to get there.

ATHENS SCREENING

Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:51:30 -0700

ROMANCE
Is the title of the program we will be screening in at the 35th Annual ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL. Ruth Bradley, festival director, writes of the program, “It’s a strong and basically funny, sweet show.” Sounds promising.

The screening will take place Monday, April 28th at 9 p.m.

Go why don’t you.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:57:44 -0700

WRAP IT UP...
Hey Guys some good news. We can achieve anything we set our mind too. Including shooting the lean and mean satire OFFICIAL SELECTION. That’s right, it’s in the can. We got it! And it’s really funny. Julie and I are in the process of logging the footage, and we will begin editing shortly. I’m so excited because this short satire will be such a silly good time. And what a heavyweight cast. Everyone was fantastic! What a good time. Can’t wait for you to see a piece of it.

Is your interest piqued?

More to come.

OHIO ON OHIO

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:52:54 -0700

ATHENS! Ohio...
Rubberfriends, more good news. RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen at the 35th Annual ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL. The festival takes place in Athens, Ohio from April 25- May 1, 2008. We am very excited about this, because we have heard such nice things about the festival from other filmmakers. And of course RUBBERHEART runner William Crano is from Ohio. Either way, this is RUBBERHEART's eleventh festival and since we started we have been playing about a festival a month, which I think is pretty great! Anyway more info to follow.

BORN OF LANSING

Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:32:38 -0800

Rubberheart Goes Back To The Womb
RUBBERHEART has been accepted into the 11th EAST LANSING FILM FESTIVAL, March 12 - 20, 2008. Which is tremendously exciting not only in that it is Michigan's largest film festival, playing over 100 films, but that it is where I was born. The festival also has great style and a really nicely designed website: www.elff.com which you should totally check out. No news yet as to which program we will screen in, but keep checking in for updates!

ANNOUNCEMENT

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:47:38 -0800

OFFICIAL SELECTION - THE FILM I am very happy to announce my next short film. OFFICIAL SELECTION. The film is currently in pre-production/casting. I will direct and the text will be written and conceived by myself and the cast. 
The film stars Rebecca Hall, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Josh Cooke, Freddie Stevenson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jake Sandvig, Zach Roerig as well as others. Quyen Tran and I will once again be teaming up, with Quyen serving as director of photography. Bryan Jackson will serve as a technical adviser.

D.C. RUBBERSCREENING

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:53:31 -0800

Rubberheart Breaks The Beltway
That's right Washington D.C. is no longer just the turf of partisan blood sport. RUBBERHEART is one candidate for best short film that is not divisive. We will unify our base and the audience will come together around our message of change. And if elected to best short, would guarentee marriage rights for all: human/human, human/doll, doll/human, doll/doll. The 10th Annual Washington, D.C. Independent Film Festival will be held March 6 -16, 2008. You know the drill by now, come join us at the screening. And if you can't make it personally, get out the vote!

DAM SHORT LONDON

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:07:59 -0800

Rubberheart Updates
I'm very excited to announce that RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen in the 4th Annual DAM SHORT FILM FESTIVAL. The film will screen in the UNDERGROUND section on February 8th at 11pm in Boulder City, Nevada. The festival looks like it will be a lot of fun and I am hoping very much that I will be able to make it to join in the party and support some short films. For more information, check out the RUBBERHEART site or the festival's website www.damshortfilm.org

The London Short Film Festival was another success! We screened in a great program and it was fantastic to have so much support from the film's friends and family. So a big thank you is in order to the festival organizers as well as all who attended. We hope to keep the screenings coming it has been great to attend all the screenings.

LONDON SHOW YER SHORTS

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:12:57 -0800

BLACK MAGIC WOMAN
The LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL has been produced in PDF form, and I'm sure it's covering all areas of the city, so look for a copy, or just download it above! The program looks really tremendous, and a lot of friends and like minded people will be coming to the RUBBERHEART screening, so I hope you can make a special appearance (you know who you are).

In other news, Mathieu Young and I have started working on an UNTITLED PAPARAZZI DOCUMENTARY, and while filming last night we were involved in a high speed car chase down Laurel Canyon that was like something you could have watched in The Fast and the Furious. It was truly crazy, all to pursue Britney Spears to a Carls Junior. Oh what a world...

SOFTLY GOES SLAM

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:23:51 -0800

SOFTLY YOU GO
I wanted to post an update about Bryan Jackson's short film SOFTLY, that I produced along with Bryan. The film will be shown in this year's SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. The film is deliciously romantic, and I am very proud of the film and Bryan. SOFTLY, premiered at NEWFEST: The New York LGBT Film Festival, then played at Reeling: Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, and following Slamdance the film will be screened in Zinogoak: The Bilbao International Gay, Lesbian & Transexual Film Festival.

For more information on Softly, please visit www.alloutattack.com

NORWAY WE LOVE

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:30:07 -0800

MULTIPLE SCREENINGS
Stellar news friends! Days after highly successful screenings in Oslo, RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen as part of the fifth annual LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, January 4th - 13th. The festival takes place right in the heart of London, screening films at the Curzon Soho Theatre, as well as at the Institute For Contemporary Arts.

RUBBERHEART has been programmed into a selection called FUCKED UP LOVE, which will screen 4 p.m. Saturday, January 5th, 2008 at the Institute For Contemporary Arts. We will be screening our fresh minted Pal Digi-Beta print of the film, which looks glorious and rich. Quyen Tran's brilliant cinematography looks so lush and alive on this print. Well worth a watch.

So please, tell your friends, tell your family, but most of all tell yourself to come down and join us. As it's London, there will be a huge party to follow, with many members of the cast and crew in attendance. No, not the dolls.

OSLO UPDATE

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:34:17 -0800

I’VE JUST RETURNED
from the Oslo International Film Festival and boy did I have a sweet time. It's a unique place, Norway, unlike anywhere I have been. There is a directness of the people that is really unparalleled. The festival was fantastic. The number of quality films they present is unmatched anywhere in the states. While I was there I viewed the following films and just wanted to give them a quick shout out: Born Without, I'm Not There (Todd Haynes is my hero), Black White + Gray, My Blueberry Nights (embarrassing), Savage Grace (Redmayne was amazing), I Love Hip Hop in Morocco, the Short Film Program and of course Mister Lonely. Also the guys at the festival couldn't have been more helpful or nice to me and I really appreciate it. Thanks Tommy, Eirik, Hans and everyone there.

Oslo is a difficult city for a vegetarian, I had to eat meat or I literally would have gone bankrupt. Not to mention everything EVERYTHING, comes doused in buckets-full of mayonnaise. Its revolting, but everyone is very shiny. As for gay life in Oslo, I visited the two oldest most established gay bars in all of Norway, which were a real interesting slice of life in and of themselves. At these bars everyone drinks, from what I could tell, as much as their body will physically allow, and then thrash about dancing, with no sense of their own physical space, or more to the point, yours. I'm not condemning these places, these gays, I met some very nice ones, who showed me around all evening, but there cultural differences were apparent. The dancing more resembled demolition derby than your typical Abbey-style dry-humping. Oh and it was one gay-anthem-after-a-tired-nother, except in Norway when it's raining men, and you get absolutely soaking wet, it's not water, not sweat, it's mayo.

Anyway here is a picture I took by the water on the harbor of Oslo, it may be my favorite picture I have ever taken, Mathieu should be proud! PICTURE

OSLO NEWS

Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:38:20 -0800

WITH WHOM WILL WE SCREEN
Okay so I have some great news, in the form of updates about the Oslo International Film Festival, coming up toward the end of November. Right off the top, this festival promises to be fantastic.

RUBBERHEART has been chosen to screen as the opening film for Harmony Korine's feature MISTER LONELY (starring Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, and Werner Herzog). I am thrilled to be screening with Mr. Korine's film, as KIDS really shaped my early life, I think I watched it for the first time when I was about 12 and it had a big impact.

RUBBERHEART will also screen in the International Shorts screenings. RUBBERHEART is one of only seven short films showing in the festival. In amazing company with Wes Anderson's HOTEL CHEVALIER, Erik Rosenlund's LOOKING GLASS, Elisa Miller's Cannes Golden Palm winner VER LLOVER, Laila El-Haddad/Saeed Taji Farouky's TUNNEL TRADE, Jean-Gabriel Periot's multiple award winner EVEN IF SHE HAD BEEN A CRIMINAL which has shown in over 160 festival (yikes that a lot of fees) and another of Jean-Gabriel Periot's films 200,000 PHANTOMS with music by Current 93, one of Antony's compatriots. So amazing company may very well be an understatement.

But wait, it gets better. Also the line up of features at the festival is pretty staggering. Including Brian's hero - role model - maker of the film Brian watched every day for two years - then one time embarrassingly showered with compliments at Bombay Cafe in Culver City -Todd Hayne's I'M NOT THERE, My good friend Eddie Redmayne's film SAVAGE GRACE in which he and Julianne Moore get a bit freaky I'm told, Sean Penn's INTO THE WILD, Wes Anderson's DARJEELING LIMITED, Jason Reitman's JUNO, and master Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION.

I could not be more excited to be participating in this festival and being allowed the chance to explore Oslo and Norway beyond. Hope you can join us (yeah as if the fun couldn't get better, oh wait what's that, Rebecca is coming too - this is ludicrous) in Norway. And if not, keep checking this space, for all the updates.

For more information and the complete program, check out the festival's site at www.oslofilmfestival.com.

ANNOUNCING OSLO

Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:41:36 -0700

LETS GET NORDIC
I am very proud to announce that RUBBERHEART has been choosen as an official selection of the 17th OSLO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, in Oslo, Norway. I am personally very excited about this. The festival is fast approaching, taking place from November 15 -25, in Oslo. Also this should be an especially fun festival as both Rebecca Hall and I will be on hand (in giant parkas) to participate together in the festival. For more information check out the festival's site which should be updated in a few days with the complete program at www.oslofilmfestival.com. We are thrilled to be making our European premier in Norway!

In other news, The screenings have been going exceptionally well, all over the world. At the Rio De Janiero International Short Film Festival, RUBBERHEART played to a packed house of hundreds of people at its first screening and is screening in tomorrow's specially selected festival marathon screening that closes the festival. And while screening at the New York City Short Film Festival the film picked up an audience choice award. Both festivals were a lot of fun. Soon I will post images from all the festival screenings on this site. Thank you so much for your support of RUBBERHEART.

WHERE IS WALES

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:44:36 -0700

RUBBERSEA | SWANHEART
Hey everyone (all four of you) I'm very happy to inform you that we have been invited to screen RUBBERHEART as part of the 2008 Swansea Film Festival. The festival takes place in Swansea, Wales, somewhere I have always wanted to go next June. Hopefully, schedule permitting, I will be able to attend. There is currently a short article about Rebecca and the film on Swansea's website www.swanseafilmfestival.com. Carwn Cymru.

SEXUAL IDENTITIES

Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:47:54 -0700

RUBBER GOING SOUTH
It's been an exciting week for RUBBERHEART and the good news just keeps coming. I am thrilled to announce that RUBBERHEART will be shown in the Sexual Identities Program at the 17th Annual Rio De Jeneiro International Short Film Festival, held in Rio from October 25 - November 4th, 2007. After working so hard on this film I am honored by the attention the film has received this week.

More information on screening times and locations will be posted shortly. 
You can also check out the festival's site www.curtacinema.com.br

NEW YORK RUBBER NEW YORK

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:52:10 -0700

SCREENING TIME
We are very excited about the New York City Short Film Festival screening and hope to see you or your NYC friends and family there!

The screening will be October 24, 2007
@ 9pm - Program B
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
at Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th St.
New York, New York
www.nycshorts.com (for tickets)