I recently had the good fortune to attend a couple enlightening, multi-day events back to back early this month, one in San Francisco and the other in Los Angeles (actually Santa Monica).  And they both could not have been more different in their content, ambiance and attitude. The first event was the Story World Conference [...]

“Nearer than breath and blood, closer than hands and feet; what is the sound of one hand clapping?” We are moving forward, albeit a bit slowly, on our next film project, “One Hand Clapping.”  As you can well imagine it takes quite a bit of time and energy (and of course $$$) to get a [...]

Most films have pieces of many ideas, and thus themes, spread within their fabric.  After commiserating with some of our fans, it seems they have identified five main ones, which I will present here.  Now of course when I wrote the screenplay for this film project, I did have some thematic premises in mind.  And [...]

I wanted to pass along some items that I thought might be of interest to some of you out there.  Yes, as the title says, we are giving away some free items from the film. First, because we’ve received so much praise about the soundtrack and requests to make it available, we figured it was [...]

I think one of the most difficult things for indie filmmakers to do is to find their audience.  Or is it that it’s difficult for their audience to find them?  Either way it is not an easy situation.  In going through the whole process, the first thing we have to do is figure out who [...]

A few days ago I was hiking on Mt. Shasta, and a couple things happened that just remade my day, and my attitude.  I was actually coming down a trail towards the top parking lot late in the afternoon when I overheard a couple of young men talking as they were going up.  Just before [...]

Before I got to spend a couple weeks camping up on Mt. Shasta (which is always marvelous and refreshing), Tim O’Connor (Ambrose in “Dreams Awake”) and his sweet wife Sheila came up to Shasta for a short visit.  He wanted to get out of town a bit before he started the new play he’s directing.  [...]

Just a quick note. I’m taking some much needed time off for a couple weeks, and will be back with more notes the second week of August. I get to camp up on Mt. Shasta for two weeks with some close friends.  So hiking, camping, meditating, hanging out, relaxing and communing with nature up on [...]

“Nearer than breath and blood, closer than hands and feet; what is the sound of one hand clapping?” Our company has some exciting news!  We recently put our next project into full development. “One Hand Clapping” is a project I have wanted to do for quite a while now.  In fact, I wrote the first [...]

I thought I’d talk about the Dreams Awake Portal a bit today.  Actually, what I want to do is give you some excerpts from the 10 content websites that inhabit it.  And then maybe you can see that actually the film is just a conversation starter, and these websites go beyond the film to delve [...]