Earth Charter Film Festival

Here are more specifics about the Earth Charter Film Festival and the screening of my documentary, Voices of the Homeless:

Friday
October 11th
7pm
MCW 113 Lecture Hall
Ventura College
Ventura, California


Admission is free


The festival runs Thursday Oct. 10th and Friday Oct. 11th with two films showing each night and filmmaker discussions after each screening.

The Cappies

Note the lower case.  The awards ceremony tonight was fine.  The food was good.  Well, I'm on a diet, but at least the food looked good.  Very good, as a matter of fact.  But I digress.

I want to say "I lost" because I didn't win.  It feels more dramatic if I lost.  But I'll just say I didn't win because I didn't.  The award went to a film that I couldn't resonate with at all.  I would have felt better if at least the film and the filmmaker I admire would have won.  But he didn't win either.  A rap music video won.

I hate that it meant so much to me.  I hate that I attached to it.

But I did.

And now I can stop blogging and feel thankful that I only have three followers because this is something I don't want a lot of people to know:  that I cared about winning, that I felt somewhat robbed, that I put my heart and soul into this documentary about jazz musicians trying to help the homeless and that is going to have to be enough for tonight.

Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions Film Festival

More news on CPR's (Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions) first film festival.  It will be October 11th and 12th.  My documentary, Voices of the Homeless, will screen on Friday October 11th and I will be there for the Q&A after the screening.  It will be held at Ventura College.  I don't have times yet, just the date and the place so far.

More to come . . .

THE CAPPIE AWARDS

They're called the CAPPIE's.  Community Access Partners (CAPS-TV), our public access station here in Ventura, California, has an awards ceremony every year for the films that are made at the station.  I hate to admit how excited I am about this year.  The ceremony is tomorrow night and I hope I win one.  Voices of the Homeless was made thanks to CAPS-TV.  I spent two years making the documentary and I could not have done it without the classes and mentoring of the professionals there.  This year I have submitted Voices of the Homeless because I missed the deadline last year by a hair.  I just finished editing and the submission deadline had already come and gone.  So this year is it.  I don't want to post on Facebook or tweet on Twitter because I know I'll be so embarrassed if I lose.  But here I can say that, deep in my heart, I hope I win a CAPPIE.  I love that station and I love my documentary.