Adventures Of Atom Smith

The student film festival takes place at the Kenneth King Center Building in the “Concert Hall” at CU Denver on Thursday, May 10th. I am told that it starts at 7:00 pm.

This is the website for the location:
http://www.kennethkingcenter.org

Here is a “Map and Directions” page which has a PDF which notes a lot with free parking:
http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/CAM/kingcenter/KCMap.html

It’s at the Auraria campus, which is basically at Colfax between I-25 and Speer. Unfortunately, the film festival does not announce the final playlist in advance, so I won’t know for sure if Intercourse, PA is actually going to be shown. After my conversation with the director, I can say that it is apparently likely. Either way, I am also told that admission is free. With any luck, most of the films won’t suck too terribly, and it’ll be a fun time.

I recently found out that a production company that does cooking shows is looking for a few ideas for new series, so I sent an email, and got a response this morning. Tried calling the number that the producer gave me, but I just got his voice mail. I’ll try calling again tomorrow and see if I can convince him I should be a celebrity chef.

Freak Train tonight. Still need to figure out what I’m gonna do.

I just got home from re-recording some dialog for a scene in the Amish Sex movie, and I got to see a cut of it. This was fun because it was the first time I had gotten to see any of the footage that was shot. It’s a bit shorter than I had expected for some reason. The director could have stretched it out a bit with all that we shot, but it did look good. We should be at the student showcase film festival mabob presentation majig on May 10th. I’m looking forward to seeing how well it is recieved.

Freak Train tomorrow. Need to figure out what I’m doing.

I went to a taping of the Food Network Challenge’s Macaroni and Cheese competition yesterday. It wasn’t nearly as exciting as I had hoped, but I did get free copies of the recipes that the competitors used. Five competitors, making two dishes each, makes a grand total of ten types of Macaroni and Cheese which I will almost certainly never make. The first round was “traditional” mac and cheese, but the rules were absurdly broad (must use elbow macaroni, cheddar, and some type of milk or cream) and the judging criteria didn’t include any points for traditionalness. So, it wasn’t traditional in the traditional sense. Of course, the first cook in front of the judges had the most traditional dish, and had actually done quite a bit of research on historical variations. But, because she was first, the judges got out all their complaining about how it wasn’t what they thought of as traditional. They seemed to get the complaining out of their system with her, and didn’t particularly take issue with the vastly less traditional dishes of the other competitors.

I didn’t bother staying long enough to find out who won the ten grand, but I hope it was the one I just mentioned. The fact that she had actually done research on the subject of Mac and Cheese made the snooty judge terribly uncomfortable because he realised she could call him out if he was a bullshitter. He rambled at length about his “deep” knowledge of the subject to all the competitors who didn’t seem to have done any reading on the subject.

Anyhow, the most novel thing of the day was running into Zane from Mouth Off at the taping. By random coincidence, he and his mom just happened to sit right next to me. I heartily enjoyed making Zane terribly uncomfortable by talking about such things as my work on the Westminster Wife Show. (Read that blog antry if you aren’t familiar with the film…)

Then, the three of us moved, and we happened to sit next to Rick who used to run Oddville at the Avenue theatre. So, with Zane, Rick, and myself we had a whole section of people in shows on 17th street which are currently on a likely permanent hiatus.

Now that I have been doing more and more stuff, it amazes me how much I am running into people I already know. At the shoot for Intercourse, PA I ran into Kathryn Gould, who I had met a few weekends prior at a CASA meeting. Embarrassingly, I didn’t recognise her. I blame the amish dress. Being a minimally social sort of person, I’m just not accustomed to encountering people I know in unexpected contexts. It’s a brave, small, new world out there, I guess.

Mac and cheese show should air late summer, around the time of the Simpson’s Cake show, which is scheduled to come out right around the time of the movie.

Well, it looks like I spoke to soon. Intercourse, PA is no longer wrapped. There were some technical difficulties suring the last scene which didn’t become apparent until after we thought we were done shooting. So, we will need to go back and reshoot on Saturday. This should work fine, as I have to be in Denver Saturday afternoon for a previously scheduled audition, so I have to be in the area of the shoot anyway.

Monkey Tango is a short buddy comedy shot in West Lafayette Indiana by Pete Desiderio. I helped a bit with the script and offered a few ideas, but I wasn’t directly involved with production as I was over a thousand miles from West Lafayette Indiana when it was made. I have a DVD of it, but it is giving me fits trying to convert it into a more web friendly format. I may just post all four gigabytes of the DVD, so that you can get the out takes and eveything, including the drinking game audio commentary track.

This project is not current, not part of my demo reel, and here only for archival purposes.

This was a high school production that I worked on with Pete Desiderio and a few other guys. We were docked points because it was slightly too long. It was our first project to use any significant 3D animation for the space ships, and the alien jiggling purple blob overlords and a few other things. Also, most of the scenes are shot on a blue/green screen and composited over some other background.

I’m trying to track down the trailer for it, and possibly a few promotional stills that we made. I’ll post them if I can get ahold of them.

Intercourse, PA is a student movie made by Jon Stevenson.

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Moving Picture Projects:
(newest somewhat near top)

These are most of the produced moving picture projects I have worked on. Chronological order is a bit arbitrary, as it’s entirely possible for me to have worked on one project, worked on another, and then the second gets released before the first. It’s a crazy world. I also have a collection of “behind the scenes” related notes on my Film Making Page.

“Fistful Of Staples”
Me: “Sam,” an office worker.
Director: Nick Falls
Shooting wrapped as of Nov. 18th, 2007.

“Ink” (feature)
Me: An Incubus (Violent, Fist-on-a-stick-Wielding Incubus)
Writer/Director: Jamin Winans
Scheduled for release in 2008.

“I Am” (feature)
Me: Extra in various scenes.
Writer/Director: Matt Russell
Scheduled for release in 2008.

“Playboy In Sin City”
I was officially a P.A., but I did everything from car-parking to sound mixing, and shooting.
Producer: Gwen Uszuko (Who won the “America’s Next Producer” competition which this project was a part of.)
Shown nationally on the TV Guide Network during the America’s Next Producer finale on September 12, 2007.

“Trainspotting” (student project, not the feature)
Me: “Renton,” but in this version it was half Renton, half Spud because there were only three characters total.
Director: Kate Nye

“Intercourse, PA.”
Me: “Jon,” one of the lead roles.
Writer/Director: Jon Stevenson
Release Date: May 10, 2007

“The Westminster Wife Show” (feature)
Me: Extra in crowd scenes, but I also did some interviews which may make it in. In addition, I came back for a second day of shooting as a supporting character named “Glen.”
Release Date: I have heard a festival cut was completed as of October, 2007.

“The Interview”
Me: Non speaking role as a homeless type bum person
Writer/Producer/Boss: Dave Dalton
Release Date: Premiered at the Bug Theater Nov 11th, 2007

“Monkey Tango”
Me: Script Consultant
Writer/Director: Pete Desiderio
Release Date: 2004

“Legend of the Red Death”
Me: Additional Visual Effects
Release Date: 2001

“Tracer”
Me: Script Consultant
Release Date: 2001

“Sophistication”
Me: Editor, Visual Effects
Release Date: 2000

“The Vector”
Me: Visual Effects, “CryptiSteve (aka Cypher)”, Additional Writing
Writer/Director: Pete Desiderio
Release Date: 2000

“Non Voltum”
Me: Visual Effects, “Borx Bob”
Writer: Several of us worked on it, including Pete and I, but I no longer recall exactly who did what. I surely wrote some of it, but I’m not certain if I actually want to admit to that.
Director: Pete and I both did some directing type stuff. I don’t recall who we actually gave the credit to, and I don’t have a copy handy to check. Pete probably did more directing than me.
Release Date: 1999

“Larry The Bootlegging Cow Milker” aka our “Silent Movie”
Me: “Sammy Vaca”
Director: Pete Desiderio

This page does not currently include unproduced work, such as scripts. If you represent a production company looking for scripts, please feel free to contact me about availability of scripts.

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