My brother Adam recently won two awards for his feature animated film The Lady of Names. The film won best feature at the 2011 Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival. He also has won best animated feature at the Toronto Independent Film Festival.   Many people have been asking what does this mean for the film.  The hope is some studio/producer will purchase the film, then release it theatrically and/or make it available on DVD.   The Lady of Names began production in the late 90’s and was completed early in 2011. 

I am a month into rehearsals for HERO, a Christmas production being staged on Dec 10 & 11.    I’m wearing many hats and dealing with various aspects of the production that include working with musicians on songs, artists on the poster, an architect on the set design and most importantly, the actors on the stage.  In the next month, the actors will be challenged further as we begin to mould their characters.

My re-write of A Walk in the Park (now called Walk), is complete and I will be sending it off to the Kairos Prizes.  I am now in the midst of adapting my play Listen to Grace into a film script.  On stage, you’re limited to the set.  On film, you can go anywhere and therefore the writing needs to open up.    What works on stage does not work in film.   Film is moving pictures.  Stage is the word.   I have three weeks to complete this process as it will be the 3^rd script I enter into the Kairos Prizes due November 1.  Get writing.