August 2012

confidence is low

So the plan today was to get up and go down to the festival, pass the DVD with clips from the documentary to Tom and give him instructions, but that’s not what happened. I did go down there this morning, but there was one problem, no one else was there.

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Another day another blog

So far this week has been all about Smile. As you know the Jazz festival is this weekend and someone had the bright idea of putting posters up and running clips at this year’s Detroit Jazz Festival. Read More...

We’re one step closer

Me and one of the documentary’s producers worked on the festival budget and details today. Read More...

SMILE distribution

Yesterday, I was in a mind numbing meeting. Now, I know it’s just me but it seemed like everything took twice as long as it should—the meeting went on and on. Read More...

Crooklyn

Currently, I’ve been doing rewrite work on a feature about the country’s first black television station, as well as, writing the outline for a documentary about the first African- American to play in the NBA. Read More...

I wonder if she knows HTML

I’ve been waiting to have a big distribution meeting for the SMILE documentary.  The distribution guy and the executive producers want to finalize the film’s festival plans, but Read More...

On the SMILE distribution front


On the SMILE distribution front, the person we hired to get the film into festivals has an impressive list put together, I wish him luck. Read More...

One last song

…the only thing left to do is to find out the name of a song included in the documentary… Read More...

I’m saddened


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Here’s a SMILE project update. I’m saddened to say… Read More...