Monday
Luci began transcribing Bev’s interview. I feel back in swing and am able to catch up with some correspondences I had let go for a little while. Industry folks are all going to Cannes, so the few meeting I want to have will have to wait until everyone returns from France. Luci set up a whole slew of spreadsheets for us to keep track of grants and correspondences. Getting organazized. The Paul Robeson grant deadline is approaching and I’ll spend the week tweaking our proposal to suit it. Continuing to watch footage and taking notes. I’m going to try and cut together a few scenes of Bev’s interviews to show to prospective collaborators. Watched “The Target Shoots First” and “Whole” on the Sundance channel. Target was surprisingly enjoyable. The handheld camera is sloppy at best, but serves the film well. The audio is pretty bad most of the time and is a little distracting, but I find it right on the nose in expressing how corporate jobs suck you in even if you feel outside of that world. Whole was disturbing. These men are called wannabees and they feel as they should be amputees even though they have all their limbs. The shocking subject matter is really all it has going for it, because the camera work, lighting, editing and sound recording all leave something to be desired. This film was funded by the Jerome Foundation as well. Kind of cool to see another doc that got the grant.