MCC Film Blog

Congrats to your friend, Kohl! Is there a way to get a copy of his short film? I would love to see that first and then see what it became. Alec and I are going to last five days of the festival (20 through the 25) but we order our tickets the first week in January so I'll let you know if we can get it! Hope to see you soon! And, hope to see one of your films at Sundance soon, too!

I found out some great news today. My friend and former BYU student Jared Hess got his film Napoleon Dynamite accepted to The Sundance Film festival. The feature film is based off of a short film Jared made titled Peluca which showed at Slamdance last year. The film is a comedy about a socially inept youth growing up in rural Idaho. They shot Napoleon this last summer in Preston Idaho and shortly afterward I got to see their very first rough cut and I thought it was hilarious. If you are going to Sundance I highly recommend you see this one. And if you do go to see it tell me when and I'll try to go with you.

Mike: I am thinking this board is ending up being a dialogue between you and me. So, let's use it as a communication channel. Alec is bringing your Steadicam to you at work tonight. He sure is loving his job. Thanks very much for helping him out with it! Keep encouraging him with keeping his grades a priority.

I am thinking that I want to go to Oklahoma over Christmas break and record Henry. He's the expert on the Indian Water Rights and early southwest history (e.g. Pauline and such). Are you up for a one or two day trip to capture that footage? I would like to have a documentary ready for Sundance next October.

Where are you at with the whole Import Intensive thing? Are you just too busy with school and work? I don't have as much energy for that as I do for these other projects. What about you?

   

One of my former students dropped by school on Friday. Kohl Glass, the writer/director of The Promethean was in town for a family event. We got to talk about the great success of The Promethean and discuss new projects in the works.

Certainly one of the projects I am most excited about is Der Ostwind. Der Ostwind is a hand-drawn animated film that Kohl started with Jake Parker and Lewie Lampton while they were still at Mesa Community College. Kohl is finishing the film at BYU. I'm certain it will be successful on the festival circuit next year. The site has concept art, storyboards, the script and even a few animatics.

You can find Lewie at LewieLampton.com and Jake at Agent 44.net. I have loved working with these guys and like to keep an eye on what they're up to. They're so creative, committed, eager and productive. It's inspiring!