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Crowdsourcing a translation
Okay all, so I have one week to translate Shabbat Dinner into Spanish. While I could run the whole thing through Google Translate, that sounds wholesale and inhuman. Gah. So let’s crowdsource it! I’ve set up a spreadsheet on Google Docs. If you know Spanish, just click this link. Then you put the translation in…
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Speaking at Brown University Meetup on Tuesday
Hey all! I’ll be giving a 15 minute talk at the Brown University April meetup. It’s called “42 ways to change the world with film.” I’ve got 2 so far..any suggestions? But seriously..I’ll be talking about the different ways film can be used for social justice and my experiences in them. Anything from issue-based documentaries,…
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Teaching and screening Shabbat Dinner at Harvard-Westlake
Apologies for the super long time between posts. Sometimes it’s better to live life than to write about it (or just impractical to do both), and that was March for me. The month started off with a whirlwind week in Los Angeles, where I was invited to guest teach at the Harvard-Westlake video art program.…
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Making Shabbat Dinner Part 4: Distribution
A four-part series on just what went into making a short film. You can also read part 1, preproduction, part 2, production. and part 3, finishing the film. In mid-January I watched the film for the first time in two weeks, writing down all my thoughts. I held two test screenings and got a lot…
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Making Shabbat Dinner Part 3: Finishing the Film
A four-part series on just what went into making a short film. You can also read part 1, preproduction, part 2, production, and part 4, distribution. Post-production Post production is arduous and time consuming, but immensely gratifying. The small changes accumulate slowly into full iterations, each one breathing a new and sometimes surprising life into…
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Making Shabbat Dinner Part 2: Production in 2 days
A four-part series on just what went into making a short film. You can also read part 1, preproduction, part 3, finishing the film, and part 4, distribution. Pre-production Pre-production was well underway and Aidan began putting together the shoot. He found a cinematographer, costume designer, assistant cameraperson, sound recordist and boom operator, transportation coordinator,…
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Making Shabbat Dinner Part 1: Preproduction in 2 months
A four-part series on just what went into making a short film. You can also read part 2, production, part 3, finishing the film, and part 4, distribution. I’d never seen the point of making a short film; or rather, I saw the point and still hadn’t wanted to. For most directors, a short film…
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RIP Steve – question on “freedom”
I’m a bit late to this particular blog post title, I suppose. I’m reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs and it’s riveting. What a privilege for those who have been able to work with such a man (and for him, to be able to change the world,) even counting the curses that came with…
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My solution to the Burning Man ticket crisis
Unless you’ve been living under a (neon covered?) rock, you might have heard about the ticket crisis facing Burning Man. Because tickets sold out at the end of the cycle last year, the organizers were worried about their fair distribution this cycle. They set up a multi tiered system: first, they sold 3,000 tickets for…
