REEL Asian Pitch is a Home Run!

Hey friends and creative colleagues!

Just wanted to let you all know that Dean and I were involved in a Pitch Competition at this year's REEL Asian Film Festival, THE festival for emerging asian artists of all kinds, particularly those who are involved in digital media. For the second year, REEL Asian has launched an Industry Series, which is a series of events geared towards providing access to those who are interested in learning about and participating creatively in the film/video/digital industry. Within this series, they have a pitch competition where people send in applications for video/film projects that then may be selected to be presented to a pitch jury. This year, Dean and I decided to go for another collaboration (partnership on every level!) and put an application in to produce a short film based on my play Castle in the Sky which has been workshopped by both the Nightwood Theatre and fu-Gen Theatre. It's going to be my little pet project that will bring together all my areas of creative interest including painting, drawing, sculpture, writing and film. I'm excited to be collaborating with Dean again because it adds further to our intimacy as partners in the romantic and creative sense. Quite awesome. Anyway, we were invited to pitch in the Professional Category and I'm so delighted to report that WE WON!!!!!!!! We really were up against some really well respected filmmakers and so it is such an honour to be given this opportunity - to have others really believe in us and look forward to seeing what we create. I am excited to see also, because right now, it's just a lot of noise and imagery in my head. But I feel so glowing about all this. We already have a commitment from some amazing actors to play the main characters in this film and are working on collaborating with some amazing musicians, etc. for the score. What a rush of adrenaline this is! I hope that people continue to be interested in the work that both Dean and I have to share both individually and collectively as time goes on. Long live creativity!!!!!!

For those who want a peek at the festival pics, check out the REEL Asian blog:

http://reelasian.blogspot.com/

Happy Wintering xo