Still Plugging Away
Still plugging away at the festivals. I’ve sent it out to five so far. The last one was sent to Australia. I thought that was kind of exciting. I sent it to something called The Sexy International Film Festival. A festival that focuses around sex and relationships. I swear to God, they have a festival for every thing. I’ve seen festivals focused around dogs, cats, homosexuality, ethnicity, religion, the environment, racism, sexism, and many other isms. At least a sex theme festival is something that’s generally loved by the public. Who doesn’t like sex of some sort? Since DNGFL had to make a long trek to Australia, that required a visit to the local US Post Office. Could there be a worse run organization without it just completely collapsing on itself? There was this lady there who said they were holding a package for her. Apparently they keep all of the packages in a giant disorganized pile in the back room. Brilliant idea during the holidays by the way. So, the attendant had to go to the back like 4 times to look through everything. Each time she came back she told the lady “It’s not back there.” After the fourth time, she found it and gave it to her, so the line could move forward. I laughed out loud when I saw this. Here’s the scary part about this though. These are all government employees. Essentially these are the same brand of people that RUN OUR COUNTRY. You know how when you walk up to a postal worker behind that little window and they look like they should have committed suicide like a week ago? Just how miserable they are and how much they don’t give shit if you get what you want or not? It’s kind of funny if you really think about it. Despite all of that DNGFL is on it’s way to Australia. The reason I bring this up is that while in the post office I started thinking of a comedy revolving around the Post Office, but it quickly turned in to a drama involving suicide and drug abuse. I bet I could turn that in to a comedy. Overdosing can be funny if you shoot it right. The movie Dear God has kind of an up beat theme to it, but after my experience yesterday I can assure you that it was %100 fiction. It’s about a con man turned postal worker that decides to try and scam people that have written letters to God. He inadvertently ends up helping them and when the other postal employees catch wind of this, they decide they want to help people too. Hilarity ensues from this point on. It’s kind of indication that the post office sucks based on the fact that they need the power of almighty God, just to turn it in to a feel good environment.
All of that aside, this Saturday me, Caine, and possibly Chris are going to get together this weekend to shoot something. So, I might just have some new short films up. Nothing super fancy, but they might be funny. Caine is funny, that’s pretty much all I have working for me right now. Neither of us has written a script or thought anything out at all really. All we know is that we’re going to have a camera, it’s going to be day time, and we are going to shoot something. I’m stealing an idea from Six Finger Fist here, but what ever. If anyone wants to give us a title for this new short film, leave it in the comments, and we’ll base our short film off of that title. Why not, right?
Tags: carl keitz, dngfl, do nice guys finish last, film festival, film making, john q phats entertainment, john q. phats, johnqphats, jqp entertainment, jqpentertainment, ngfl, nice guys finish last, postal service, the post office, the sexy international film festival, the us postal service
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:54 am
Hey Carl,
So just to clarify, this is NOT going to be a comedy? Or it is? And I left this comment here instead of e-mailing you because I am a fan of shameless promotion.
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Cool! I like this idea… Now for a fun title…
1) Twoedge, the blade of truth
2) I’m tiiiireeed…
3) Look up
Maybe there will be a winner in there somewhere
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Book Worm.
Needle Nose Pliers.
Cherry Chap stick.
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
You should do a film about the post office. Make it so that they encourage that behavior, “Ok everyone, team meeting! Now, Sally made a woman stand in line for forty minutes before she gave up and left. Good job, Sally, but you need to take a lesson from Brent. He “went into the back room” eight times today “trying” to find a customer’s package. When Brent finally brought him his broken crystal vase, the man pissed himself he was so angry. Brent gets the gold start today.”
Call it Postage Due, or Priority Mail or something.
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:53 pm
shameless promotion, yes… yes… yes…
1. “Holy Titty Fucking Christ”
2. “The Korean Puppy Cook Book”
3. “Wax Me”
4. “Man as Food”
5. “Visions”
I’m drunk. Hope i helped.