Pilot Season

Put Your Film in the Spotlight!

Film festivals abound these days. It wasn’t too long ago that festivals were extremely elite and few and far between. If you were lucky you either went to Cannes, San Francisco, New York or maybe Toronto. Then came Sundance and suddenly filmmakers were able to really attract attention. Soon film festivals began to proliferate and [...]

Genius vs Media Sensationalism

I’m usually a first weekend movie-goer. That comes from spending my life around the “business” and knowing the importance of the first weekend box office receipts. To be truthful, it probably really comes from hearing dinner table talk as a child. My father was a television executive in the early days of television and his [...]

Is Applying to College a Crap Shoot?

Students across the country took SATs last Saturday and there are more to come. It’s fall and for high school seniors planning to go on to college it is the rite of passage. It goes something like this. First the PSATs. Then the questions. “OMG!” “How could I have scored so low? How am I [...]

The Soul of Man’s Humanity

I believe to the bottom of my toes that the arts are the soul of man’s humanity. I believe that art, whether it’s the performing arts, digital media, or visual arts, has the ability to change the world. I’ve written blogs about this before but every time I see or hear something that reinforces that [...]