God on Film
So I've been working really hard as of late - I'm working full time on some commercials to pay the bills, and on top of that developing the extras for the Emelia DVD, designing an Emelia graphic novel, and an urban vinyl Emelia doll (whew!). If that wasn't enough I've also been flying to festivals where Emelia is showing.
My favorite festival so far was "God on Film" which was at the Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom wher Emelia won Best Short!
Godonfilm deals with films that capture the transcendent in ordinary life, and since Emelia is a film that deals with seeing our insides through the eyes of a little goth girl, it seemed to be a perfect fit. I hope a lot of people got in touch with their inner goth.
Really if you ask me, good film is by nature spiritual, because it communicates on a heart level. Whether it makes us cry or laugh, when a film stirs us, it is touching our insides and connecting with us on a deep level. It lets us see our good parts, and our dark parts. In our world of over commercialization we seem to have lost sight of that and tend to think of films in terms of how many Happy Meals they can sell (in Emelia's case maybe McDonald's could sell "Unhappy Meals"...wait no, I'll never sell out!...well only for the right price).
I was really happy to be a part of Godonfilm and overwhelmed with the reaction it got there. My favorite part was when a group of teenage girls came up to me after the screening and told me how much they loved the film and how several of them were crying. When I gave them a copy of the film they began jumping up and down and shrieking with joy. I felt like a rock star :)
If you want to try to see Emelia on the big screen, here are some places you can catch her at
Anima Mundi - Brazil (July 8-24)
where it has 6 screenings all in the category "infantil" (I love that)
GiRL FeST - Hawaii (Sept 3-9) Go Grrrl power!
Mill Valley Film Festival Mill Valley, CA (Oct 6–16) I'm planning on going to this one
Great Animation Convention Lille, France (Oct 21–23)
In French its called "Fete de l'Animation" which I think means
"Greek cheese made from animation" but I could be wrong about that...
There are a lot more festivals coming up, so I'll try and make a page for that soon.
My favorite festival so far was "God on Film" which was at the Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom wher Emelia won Best Short!
Godonfilm deals with films that capture the transcendent in ordinary life, and since Emelia is a film that deals with seeing our insides through the eyes of a little goth girl, it seemed to be a perfect fit. I hope a lot of people got in touch with their inner goth.
Really if you ask me, good film is by nature spiritual, because it communicates on a heart level. Whether it makes us cry or laugh, when a film stirs us, it is touching our insides and connecting with us on a deep level. It lets us see our good parts, and our dark parts. In our world of over commercialization we seem to have lost sight of that and tend to think of films in terms of how many Happy Meals they can sell (in Emelia's case maybe McDonald's could sell "Unhappy Meals"...wait no, I'll never sell out!...well only for the right price).
I was really happy to be a part of Godonfilm and overwhelmed with the reaction it got there. My favorite part was when a group of teenage girls came up to me after the screening and told me how much they loved the film and how several of them were crying. When I gave them a copy of the film they began jumping up and down and shrieking with joy. I felt like a rock star :)
If you want to try to see Emelia on the big screen, here are some places you can catch her at
Anima Mundi - Brazil (July 8-24)
where it has 6 screenings all in the category "infantil" (I love that)
GiRL FeST - Hawaii (Sept 3-9) Go Grrrl power!
Mill Valley Film Festival Mill Valley, CA (Oct 6–16) I'm planning on going to this one
Great Animation Convention Lille, France (Oct 21–23)
In French its called "Fete de l'Animation" which I think means
"Greek cheese made from animation" but I could be wrong about that...
There are a lot more festivals coming up, so I'll try and make a page for that soon.
