A pile of links for you today...
Our first DVD review came out yesterday, courtesy of the
Austin Chronicle. I feel totally gratified by the last sentence.
Also, Paul on the
Spout.com blog puts up a post about the choices we made in marketing the DVD, to go for the "porn" angle as opposed to the "challenging" angle. It's an internal debate we've had through the whole course of making the film and showing it. But, hey, if anyone is disappointed by the lack of naked skin in Dear Pillow, they can just watch Pleasureland!
Paul mentions that the web-ad campaign has begun on
Spout.com, a pretty cool movie-review & recommendationg-sharing site I joined a few months back (it's the home of Joey Swanberg's new web-series
Butterknife, starring Ronnie Bronstein, who made the mind-blower
Frownland). Poke around the site a bit and you'll probably see a little animated Dear Pillow ad show up on the sides or top of the page. American Apparel seems to have bought up most of the ads, but ours show up occasionally. There's also a simple campaign at
SuicideGirls.com, where a little headline shows up in their "Check This" column.
Reports have been coming in that the DVD on shelves in LA at
CineFile, in NYC at
Kim's Video, here at
Waterloo, and at stores in
Toronto,
Madison, WI, and
Cambridge, MA, among others. Whee!!
Backtracking a bit to the Fort Worth weekend, pal Adam Donaghey posted a pretty thorough festival diary on his
blog, including reviews of all the films in the
Texas DIY shorts program (and a pic of all us white boys in our 20's & 30's on stage for the Q & A. There was some discussion after that screening of just how uh... dick-centric the program was. We have
James Johnston, the curator of the show, to thank/blame for that).
Finally, back-tracking to AFI Fest, I came up this funny little
festival promo featuring the cast of In Search of a Midnight Kiss. Wait for Brian McGuire at the end. Speaking of Mogwai, he gets singled out for props with his performance in ISOAMK in this
blog here.
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