Homeschool Reunion

It's been a year, so I feel justified in allowing it to be available online.

If you're interested in seeing HOMESCHOOL REUNION, here you go!

HOMESCHOOL REUNION

First Finale

FIRST FINALE.

In November of 2016, Jonny and I went to the Laughlin International Film Festival in Nevada. It was great. The festival was in the Tropicana hotel/casino with a great filmmaker's area, the films were shown at the local mall cinema, we go to hang out with our buddy Brandon who's "GOOD GRIEF" was showing here as well, and it was a fun drive up and back.

We met a ton of filmmakers, as you do, and I loved the fact that the shorts blocks were THEMATIC!  So we weren't preceded by a ten minute action advenure and followed by a half-hour drama about homeless Chinese kids (I speak from experience...) We were in the STRANGE AND CURIOUS block (which makes sense) and where we met Mindy and Rob, two great filmmakers who had a super short film, HARD BROADS. Hers, IMO, was the best of the block. Though, I'm happy to say that HOMESCHOOL got the most questions and compliments in the discussion afterward - we did have some issues, though - our film cut off halfway through. After Jonny ran to see what was going on, it was discovered that there was a projector issue and we would be shown as the last film of the block. Crisis averted.

We hung out with Brandon and walked around a bit in the heat, got to chill by the pool, and at the Awards ceremony, discovered just exactly how political things are at festivals. HOMESCHOOL in no way deserved an award, but let's just say that the winner....  was a political award. 

It was a great way to spend a weekend, Jonny and I had a great time, and I think that may be the end of the HOMESCHOOL REUNION Festival run. We got accepted into 12 Festivals, attended three, my family got to join in on one, cast and Jonny's family go to attend one, we traveled by car, plane, and ... car again. We sadly missed out on the Hamilton, Canada and Florida Inspired Minds fests, but we're also broke.

It was a great run and it's time to move onto the next round with a new project: POKER NIGHT, a film written by Tom Cavanaugh, dircted by yours truly, and this time FEATURING Jonny, so it all stays in the family in a way.

Can't wait to hit Sundance next time!