Oak Street Films

There are a lot of things I want to write about, but I’m in the midst of a particularly busy–and stressful–week. I’ve been recovering from the shock of a very disappointing turnout at the shows the other night (though the reaction to the films on the part those who did attend could not have been better or more satisfying), and am simultaneously preparing finally to begin work on Hell Is Other People even as I scramble to find some kind of way to pay my landlord and avoid sudden homelessness.

Stay tuned. Or in more medium-appropriate terms, don’t delete those bookmarks from your browser (or the feed from your reader). I’ll be right back.

I’m hoping this third-generation re-design of the site will answer some of the more nagging, longstanding deficiencies of its previous iterations. One of the biggest problems has been the lack of content relating to the movies I make to earn a living (as opposed to the movies I make purely out of my love for Auntie Kino); it’s hard to make an impression on potential clients, collaborators, or contractors when there’s nothing on one’s Web site which relates directly to the the type of work a client might want to talk about. So I’ve finally broken down and decided to build a page called services as part of a new effort to remedy that problem.

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