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Ian filmed Elizabeth and Jay’s Wedding when we were first starting foolish tree films. We sat down with them to hear their feelings about looking back at the film now and about working with Ian and foolish tree.
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This is a short film from the Ocean Avenue Film Festival. Lots of lovely people, mainly from the neighborhood. And all the filmmakers were from the neighborhood (wherever possible, contact info will be included):
- Asian Mainstream Productions
- Marie Chou
- Sanelle Sibanda (name misspelled in the credits – sorry! Didn’t figure it out until now)
- Dustin Magidson (you can see the short film he showed that night here. He was also awesome on tech that night!)
- Amy Covell (The producer of two films at the Festival, she is also a model and actress.)
- Red Suspender Films
- Miranda and Woody LaBounty
- Jane Anfinson, and, of course,
- foolish tree films!!! (Click to see the “Victorian Thriller,” shown at the festival, and the behind-the-scenes film of the shooting of the “Victorian Thriller,” entitled “Under the Headstone.” You can also find us on facebook.)
Thanks for watching, everyone!
Best,
Ian & Jo
Closing credit music: “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” by The Darkness.
Shot on an Aiptek Action HD camera — not our pro cameras. Sorry about the sound – it’s cheap and I was trying it out as a small portable “shoot anything” kind of camera (and it was giving me all sorts of codec problems). We’ve already upgraded!
Tim Jones, Technology and Activism Manager for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, extols the virtues of foolish tree films.
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Yup! I'm passionate for chocolate too. Hmmm...chocolate vid...where's Willie Wonka? 
In life, as in film, there are an amazing number of things that all must come to bear, together, to create success of any kind. Three of those things inhabit this series. Next up? Passion.
Passion. We’re those crazy, wacky things called humans. And if we just knew what it was that we needed, we could become adept at life, and everything would be peachy. Juuuust peachy.
But wait! We do know. At least, part of us does. What is it for you that drives you bananas – in a good way? That just makes you tingle even thinking about doing it? (Yes, including that. I think that’s, potentially, a completely valid life choice, at whatever level.) Writing? Eating? Playing wit da kitties (or puppies or bunnies or…)? Seeing the smile on a child’s face when s/he figures something out? Feeding others? What is it for you?
As you may have noticed, it’s been over a month since my last post. Waaaaaay too long. Sorry about that. Partly I’ve been workin’ on da biz, and partly I just didn’t know what to say in this blog. I was wrestling with it in late April, when I was doing Script Frenzy. (www.scriptfrenzy.org. I won!) I was hammering my script out, even when I didn’t want to. And that’s when it hit me – sure, Persistence is what got me to go back to the writing, even when I was resistant. And sure, Perspective showed me that if I didn’t get back to it, it certainly wouldn’t get done.
But…why do I care? Yup. You guessed it. Passion. It’s my Passion for writing, and for telling an original story that says, “Yes. Use your Perspective and your Persistence here. Because this is where the juice is. This is where the sweet Passion is. Go, man, go!” And so I got back to it, and with just a few hours to spare, finished the script.
Persistence will keep you on task, even when you don’t want to. Perspective will show you where you need to go next. And Passion will deliver you to those things worth doing.
What’s your Passion? Your Passion in work? Your Passion in life?
Thanks for reading!
Shake the foolish tree,
Ian Carruthers
Filmmaker
www.foolishtreefilms.com
Let’s make a movie!
Persistence (click here for part 1 of this 3 part series)
Perspective (click here for part 2 of this 3 part series)
On April 13th, Evan Ratliff did a benefit talk for one of our favorite organizations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He spoke about the contest he underwent for Wired magazine. He “disappeared” from his old identity for a month. Wired’s readers were notified that if they found him, they would win $5000. If he evaded detection for the whole month, he’d win the money. It’s a fascinating look at identities, both physical and digital, in the modern age.
We will be uploading the entire talk as a playlist in the near future, but for now for more info, please check out the podcast of the full event by the very cool folks at Waking Up Orwell.
Evan Ratliff is a freelance journalist and feature writer for Wired, The New Yorker, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. He’s also the story editor for Pop-Up Magazine, the world’s first live magazine.
Full Wired article Waking Up Orwell Podcast Evan's Blog
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