Over the years, I've had a number of documentary filmmakers reach out to me specifically over my experience with Circus Road Films. (Presumably they found an earlier blog entry where I talked positively about them.) I recently had another filmmaker reach out to me asking some follow-up questions and I thought I might write a short piece going more in depth about my experience both with them and distribution overall.
Distribution for me...
In light of the recent release of "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" (as well as "Antkind") -- I thought I might share this quick story about Charlie Kaufman. When "Anomalisa" was released, he (along with co-director Duke Johnson and producer Rosa Tran) did a Q&A after a screening of it at the Landmark.
As someone who has been to many Q&As -- the audience question part can be wild, particularly in Los Angeles. I went to an awards screening of...
Planet Money has a terrific new episode on the allocation of slots in the NYC marathon [link].
So there's roughly 50k slots and 150k applicants. More applicants than slots. How to allocate this fairly? Apparently, the NYC marathon has 4 ways you can get in:
1. lottery -- completely randomized, one entry per person
2. merit -- run below a certain time in another marathon
3. desire (money) -- they give away slots to charities who then...
An actor recently asked me a bunch of questions re: UCB so I figured I would do a Q&A with myself in case it was helpful to other actors.
Q. Why are you relevant to talk about UCB?
A. I did the full UCB improv currriculum, was passed into Advanced Study, and auditioned and got into Academy. I've also done the full sketch program, was passed into Advanced Study, and also did some one-off stuff like their Character 101 class. I have *not*...