EILEEN, 30, sits at a table in the corner, a red coffee cup sitting next to the open laptop in front if her, a new FINAL DRAFT 7 document on the screen.
The cursor blinks on the otherwise blank screen.
EILEEN (V.O.)
Alright. Let’s do this.
Oh, my dear little librarian. You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.
– Meredith Willson’s The Music Man (1962)
Probably my most popular - and most requested - film, at least partially because it features a cat and references Armageddon. :) Starring Greg Nemer and Rachael West, and featuring my feisty little feline Tomo, The Armageddon Kitty is a short comedy about a boy, a girl, a cat, and the end of the world. It screened at the 2010 Estes Park Film Festival, the 2011 Festivus Film Festival, the 2011 Indie Spirit Film Festival and the 2011 Colorado Independent Women of Film. A Twelve Monkeys Dancing Films Production.
Learn more at www.tmdfilms.com/thearmageddonkitty ! :)
We begin production on our latest short film, a psychological horror titled Breach, tomorrow night!
I’m so excited to be on set again. I’ve missed it so much.
http://www.tmdfilms.com/breach/index.html
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society. … Today, engineers with their computers can add color to black-and-white movies, change the soundtrack, speed up the pace, and add or subtract material to the philosophical tastes of the copyright holder. Tomorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with “fresher faces,” or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor’s lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new “original” negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires. The copyright holders, so far, have not been completely diligent in preserving the original negatives of films they control. … In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.
A copyright is held in trust by its owner until it ultimately reverts to public domain. American works of art belong to the American public; they are part of our cultural history.
Source: The Greatest Speech Against the Special Edition was from George Lucas, SavingStarWars.com
When you first get to Hollywood, everyone around you is trying to tell you the rules. And if you’re new in town, it only makes sense to listen to them… If I went on a hiking expedition in the Himalayas and a local guide told me not to wear my backpack in a certain way, I’d listen to him. Why? Because he lives on the mountain, he’s a local expert and if he tells me the rules of mountain climbing, I’m going to fucking listen to him. Why should it be any different in Hollywood? I’m new in town, these agents and managers and producers have all been here a while, I should listen to them, right? Wrong. After a few years here, you realize that the film business is nothing like mountain climbing - there are no rules.
– Leigh Whannell breaks down the experience of writing DEAD SILENCE (via movieclub) Via Thousand WordsTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain (via creatie) Via Thousand WordsAbout me
A whole new breed of crazy.
Eileen Agosta is a writer & filmmaker living in Northern Colorado. She produces her films through her production company Twelve Monkeys Dancing Films.
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