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the d-monster gets great response at AFI DWW 2010 showcase!

May 13, 2010

The audience response for the d-monster short film was overwhelming. People loved it! The showcase far exceeded my wildest dreams. Who gets to sit and hear a standing room only crowd laugh at every one of their jokes? I sat in the dark theater waiting for my film to come on, hoping people would connect [...]

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May 5, 2010

AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women showcases the 8 films made in the prestigious program this year.  My very own quirky animated/live action film THE D-MONSTER is one of them!
The AFI DWW red carpet showcase is set for May 11th at 7:30pm the Director’s Guild Theater in Los Angeles.
Guest of honor for the 2010 AFI Showcase [...]

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Bigelow wins Big!

March 8, 2010

How exciting to finally have a female director win an oscar for best director – and for a gritty war action film like Hurtlocker to boot? I’m elated.  And no one can argue (sorry James Cameron) that it’s because it makes a good story. Yeah that’s the only reason she won?  Nice try – bitter [...]

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Foley peeps who did Up in the Air do The D-Monster foley!

March 4, 2010

Because their is an angel watching over our film, we were lucky enough to get pro foley studio Post Creations to do the foley for the The D-Monster.  This was key as the film has animation that needed to have all sound built from scratch. What is foley? I didn’t know ’till I got schooled [...]

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Nobody Drinks Regular Coke!

March 3, 2010

Creepy — during The D-Monster foley recorded at Post Creations, the diet coke was there…
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UCLA Freshman Lauren Stone Plucked from Rehearsal to Record The D-Monster Film Score

February 26, 2010

While scoring the AFI DWW short film The D-Monster at the Henry Mancini Studio (at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music) we lost our clarinet player.   We didn’t lose him, he had better stuff to do like get beer and pizza and catch the game – ok I lied, he had a live show.  [...]

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The D-Monster film: musical score recorded at UCLA

February 24, 2010

Composer Jeff Kryka, writer/director Kinga Suto and music supervisor Michelle Crispin like what they hear at the AFI DWW short film THE D-MONSTER scoring session. Music was recorded at UCLA’s Henry Mancini Theater.

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Music to my ears

February 24, 2010

The D-Monster will have an original score composed by Jeff Kryka -  recent Henry Mancini Award Winner.
http://www.jeffkryka.com/Composer/News.html

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My hair has a doppelganger

February 12, 2010

In the spirit of doppelganger week…my hair and David Lynch’s hair could be seeing the same hair dresser. That bitch.

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My AFI Directing Workshop for Women year coming to an end…

February 10, 2010

Even though I’m in the middle of post production hell – and I mean that in the most loving sense, on my film THE D-MONSTER, it’s hard to believe my year as a participant in the AFI Directing Workshop for Women 2009 cycle is coming to an end soon!  On one hand it feels like [...]

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