Its been a crazy few weeks as I worked my ass off towards meeting a ridiculous deadline for two events at the same time! The first was the first time “Dead on Film” Rio theater zombie film festival which I had promised myself not to enter but could not resist since its the only zombie specific film festival Vancouver has to offer! Yes its a first time event but I know a good thing when I see it and I think this festival will get bigger as years go by. The reason I hate entering these stupid competitions is because the winners at these events are generally selected by other stupid people. Before you get your panties in a knot and bite my head off for sounding like an asshole please allow me to explain.

These competitions are no different then Halloween costume party contests! By that I mean its usually a place where a bunch of drunk and stoned individuals get together to watch some trippy shit that makes them laugh even though its probably not even funny. Then everyone gets to vote based on how many friends you have in the audience or how drunk the guy beside you was when he selected “Pissing doll” because it was great hand held camera work by a couple amateur stoners who thought it would be funny to shoot and place on you tube! Along comes a festival hell lets enter it! If these things were actually judged by a panel of experts who actually know what quality looks like and understand the process and can tell that a single shot may have taken a person 3 months to compile, then they would be worth entering. I think once again I am going back to the Fuck silly competitions and concentrate on the bigger picture.

Now that Im done venting lets talk about a much better day that definitely helped people know about Bong! The 2010 Vancouver Zombie walk kicked off on the 21st on a beautiful sunny day and was lead by the Bong OF The Dead cast as we marched down the street with a banner held up high! Lots of pictures on my face book wall posted by everyone so feel free to take a peak! Here is a couple cool ones of us leading about 6000 people on the march!

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So it has been one year and a bit since Ive been stuck in the dark confines of my theater slash Office where every second of my life has been dedicated to finishing my film entirely by myself now that in post! At the rate of 30 frames per second and shots varying from 1.5 seconds to 18 seconds long you can imagine the amount of work involved in trying to complete this movie when adding 260 shots which required compositing!

Through it all I have changed immensely not just as a Producer/Director but as an individual all together. Ive discovered who my true friends are and who are not. I feel a lot more knowledgeable of my craft now then ever since I had to submerge myself into editing and composting and learning software that is new to me in order to make it all possible. I can finally look back at all the hard work it took right from the start when I set out with to make a movie for only $5000. Had it not been for my loyal friends and family I would not have been bale to pull it off by spending so little and getting so much. Im now hoping to have the film done sometime in October as I push forward with Audio part of the project which deals with some rerecording of actors dialogues, sound FX and music.

I will hopefully have a new official trailer and some new mini documentary footage coming soon!

Thanks
Thomas

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June 28th, 2010 11:00 AM EDT to June 30th, 2010 1:00 PM EDT

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So a bit off topic from my usual Bong Bloging today. I was working away the other day when I suddenly caught a few minutes of the “Elen DeGeneres show which was blaring behind me. She was ending her show with her concern in regards to how a real estate company has proposed to build houses in place of the Hollywood landmark sign! Of course I being someone who not only loves Hollywood, its sign and its heritage representation of everything movies, it immediately caught my attention. Once Elen explained how horrible this plan was and that WE need to stop it from happening she proceeded to let us know as the viewers that if WE want to stop this demonstration of true corporate greed, then WE need to donate money and help raise $900,000 in order stop it!

Now the last time I checked Elen was a multi millionaire as are ALL her friends such as Oprah, Dr. Phill not to mention every A-list actor in Hollywood!!! Why is it that they need money from regular folks such as you and I who are struggling to make a living as is? Yet when something as unthinkable as this is presented then WE are supposed to scrape together what little money we dont have in order to stop it from occurring? I was hoping she was going to end the show by saying dont worry about it, I paid the bill myself because I can god damn well afford it! Hell her and Oprah could flip the bill alone if they did not buy that next luxury unnecessary home decoration by one of their high end celebrity designers!

Im glad that she brought the attention to the word on her show but if she really gave a damn then she or each and every Hollywood actor in Hollywood should step up and take care of this instead of asking US to come up with the money! I just want to say shame on her and all those rich entertainment industry corporations and individuals. You think at least the studios in California could pool together and take care of this. Nine hundred thousand dollars is a drop in a bucket for a city where billions of dollars are generated annually!

If I had the money trust me that I would flip this bill in a heartbeat! I cant believe that even the rich and famous in Hollywood dont seem to give a damn about its heritage and importance!

Not so generous Elen De Generes!

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