Goings On

Back from four days in Ottawa. Very fun times in the Byward Market, and the tour of Parliament was particularly meaningful after my citizenship studies. We even got to meet with a Senator (the political kind): Maria Chaput. It was excellent to hear her story and what she does, as I have a distrust of non-elected officials!

In commemoration of May Day, I'll also spend the next few days expressing a distrust of military in the streets with my contribution to the Conspiracy Week Film Festival. Over the next two days, I'm taping a short film They Came at Night. There will also be several interesting documentaries showing as part of the week - check 'em out!

The challenge is I'm not sure exactly where to go to get footage of the troops. I do have actors though - 16 Winnipeg actors have volunteered over the next 2 nights - gotta love the interest level! Many of them are also auditioning the same evening for the three leads in Rave Review. It's taken a lot of brain cells to organize all the time slots, but now I'm pumped up to get auditioning and taping!

I had tried to recruit a DP, but since everyone's working on the three productions going simultaneously (Brothers Grimm, Good Life and Blue State), I'll just have to be a true Guerrilla Filmmaker and shoot my own stuff!

Today also marks the first day of the May Day Poetry Project - I'll attempt for the second year running to write a poem a day (or close to it) for the month of May. Other poets will set similar goals. Come cheer us on!