Showing posts with label affection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label affection. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Affection/Affectation Plays at Bare Bones Film Festival!!



Probably the first of many posts about this. So, for all of those who subscribe to this blog, my Twitter, my Facebook, and all of that... well, you don't get an apology, just grin and bare it. This is PMP Production's first film fest selection and, like an over-eager teen who just lost his virginity, we've got to brag about it where ever we can.

So, more concisely stated: Affection/Affectation, the first full-length feature completed by Lawrence, KS based PMP Productions, and Directed by Aubry Peters, has been made an official selection of the Bare Bones Film Festival. As if that weren't cool enough, the film has also been nominated for Best Comedy of the year, and Aubry has been nominated for Film Auteur of the Year. Really, its an honor just to get a selection (we can put those little laurels on subsequent package printings! And not ironically or mockingly!), but to get the nominations on top is just... well, its goddamn amazing is what it is.

The one down-side is that the film's screening area is away from the main festival, and in a little side shop, John Michael's. So, if you're in the Oklahoma area, or attending the con, please find your way over to the screening. If you know people who might be going to the festival, or live in Oklahoma, tell them to check out the film. We're small, of course, and can use all the support we can gather.

Link to Festival Info

Link to Venue Info

Link to Film Trailer

Also, the film is already available on DVD. I know Aubry just got fresh copies in from the printers, and they should be ready to ship! Get a copy for yourself here. A bargain really. Amazon will carry this eventually, but they will be doubling the price, so buy direct.

Not ones to rest on our laurels, PMP has also had one of its shorts, You Dun It, directed by yours truly, requested by the Dead by Dawn film fest in Scotland. If we get selected to screen, be aware, I'm calling for donations so I can fly over there and crash in a hostel to be able to show the damn thing.

And, as mentioned last time, production has officially begun on The Dire Digest, our second full length feature. Without going into too much detail, its a horror piece, and each of the PMP founders will be shooting and directing their own segment of the film. Portland's own Josh Winegarner has just finished shooting his section, with myself as the (nearly dead) lead actor. Only five more to go! More on that as it develops.

In the meantime, thanks very much to everyone who has supported the works so far, and also to those who will be supporting in the near future. Our little group has stories to tell, and its all of the encouragement given by friends and family that allow us to pursue our dreams, and cast our voices out into the world.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Affection/Affectation- Movie Premiere

Woo! Busy month here. Despite unemployment, I spent a few weeks being too busy to really do any reviews or general blogs. Just about done with a new screenplay short, and will be working on it with Aubry Peters as soon as we can get together again, probably at the start of the new year.

In the meantime, I'm working at Amazon.com. Just call me Ramona Flowers.

On the creative front, Aubry and PMP Productions just finished their first full-length feature production. Its a little indy written and directed by Aubry, and featuring all of the PMP Crew in various roles. While it has its foibles due to budget constraints, the script is very heart-felt, and I think Aubry did a great job with his first real epic endeavor.

And I was a writing consultant, so of course I'm going to pimp the shit out of it.

The premiere is this week, Sunday the 12th at 7PM at the Granada in Lawrence, KS. Go on out, support some local cinema. Hell, its free, where else can you get 2 hours of free entertainment?

Synopsis:
Clint, Derek, and Ben, three young bachelors who think they have life figured out. By day its drinks and frisbee golf, by night its parties and an endless stream of sexual conquests. But when Clint is confronted by the return of 'the one who got away', the once unflappable bastard is forced to re-examine his lifestyle. 

Clint's quest for answers sends the household into tumult. Derek questions the solidarity of his long-term relationship, beginning a quest to recapture the passions of his single days. Meanwhile, Ben struggles to find compromise between his desire and his gentleman's ways. 

Can old flames be rekindled? How can you ever be sure you've found the right one? Do nice guys always finish last? They hope to find their answers hidden in the darkest corners of bars, the lowest depths of beer bottles, and between the sheets of strange women.

Once experts at 'the game', the trio finds the rules are changing around them, and within them. The lines between love, lust, and desperation may be more blurred than they had ever believed.




Did I mention it has an awesome soundtrack by Approach and others from his label? Cuz it does.