Judgment Day for IHTF
Our 5-episode, 2-gal, all-queer web series I Hate Tommy Finch has been unleashed on the world via tello films. The first two episodes are up, and the reviews rolling in are…great! AfterEllen.com, the largest resource we can think of for lesbian entertainment news, said: …more authentic lesbian relationship development than Grey’s Anatomy, Glee and Pretty [...]
Kfink’s New Year’s Revolutions
2011 has been QUITE a year. We’ve partnered with new collaborators, developed new projects, and discovered success in new mediums. Here are some 2011 Kfink Highlights: We Won Something! This was our second year attending the filmmaker-focused, no-submission Flyway Film Festival in Pepin, Wisconsin. It’s no secret that we’re big fans of this intimate, vibrant [...]
TRAILER ALERT: Tooshie Smooshie
You know we like to make sexy, funny, finky films, and our latest Kinky Cutie definitely fits this mold. Shot in September of this year, TOOSHIE SMOOSHIE is our third Kinky Cutie, in which a man down on his luck tries to reconnect with his first love. It stars WIGGLE ROOM star Kristin Barnett and [...]
No Sleep Til IHTF!
In exactly one week our play I HATE TOMMY FINCH opens in Chicago (Oct 14 – 16)! Are we nervous? Sure. Are we excited? Hells yes. Are we ready? A picture is worth a thousand worries… The road to IHTF has included: Fall of 2010: our introduction to tellofilms by a beloved TILT backer (@geologylady) [...]
Countdown to I HATE TOMMY FINCH
In one month our new play/web-series, I Hate Tommy Finch, will debut here in Chicago. What is I Hate Tommy Finch? I Hate Tommy Finch is an unique project that aims to bridge the gap between live performance and new media distribution. First I Hate Tommy Finch will be performed in front of a live [...]
Vegas Bound w/ A SECOND KNOCK
We’re proud to announce that the friendly fire documentary we’ve been working on with director Christopher E. Grimes’ 5414 Productions, A SECOND KNOCK AT THE DOOR, is having its World Premiere Screening(!!!) at the Cine Vegas Fest on August 26th, 2011! We’ll be doing a Q&A after. Join us! ‘Friendly fire’ is defined as “the [...]
KINKS: Get Your Think On
BY JESSICA KING Expatriates have always intrigued me. In college, I was obsessed with writers like Gertrude Stein and James Baldwin who, for not altogether different reasons, left the U.S. to live abroad in Paris. I had a brief taste of this life myself when I spent a year in China after graduating college. Being [...]
D.I.Y. Big Time
As Do-It-Yourself, or DIY, filmmakers, we often embrace the notion of keeping things small: small budgets, small casts, etc. While we may have to keep things small in order for them to be manageable, that doesn’t mean we ever forget the other side of DIY-ness – audacity. Just because you strive for efficiency and effectiveness, [...]
Mystery Interviewer Gets Kfink to Dish
John Hoff III is tight-lipped about himself (seriously – where did this guy come from?) but great at getting those he interviews to spill their guts. Recently he’s put together a respectable string of filmmaker interviews, and we’re honored that today’s offering is us. John not only asked us what we’re working on, but what [...]
Balls & Cats & Script Magazine, Oh My!
Big thanks to our friend, screenwriter, producer, and fun-time party gal Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, for her in-depth article on what we’re up to in her Balls of Steel column on the Script Magazine site. The only things Jeanne DIDN’T reveal in the article were what we ate for breakfast this morning and what color underwear [...]
Rollin' the Dice with WIGGLE ROOM
WIGGLE ROOM on Tour w/ Cinekink 2011 Lovely Lisa Vandever (director of the Cinekink Kinky Film Festival) recently announced the line-up for this year’s Cinekink traveling show, and we’re on it! Just in case you forgot how we feel about Lisa… Memories…Like the Corners of Our Dirty Minds In 2010 Cinekink took our first kinky [...]
April Showers
We’re a third of the way through 2011! Time flies when you’re having fun…and working 16 hours a day. If March was a month of traveling (Cinekink, Egofest), April is shaping up to be a veritable hometown ho-down! Here are two great events we’re honored to be a part of here in Chicago this month: [...]
A Friend of a Friend: The Film Collective
Have you ever had a friend who said, “Oh, my god, I have this OTHER friend you’d just love?” Sort of feels like they’re about to set you up on a blind date, right? When this happens, we just smile and nod, secretly thinking: “Please don’t set up a triple date. We’re happy just hanging [...]
World Domination Update
Here’s an incomplete list of things we’ve conquered in the past 12 months: Hate Trekkies Our 1st feature film That naggy bitch Mary Hatch Cooking Show culture DIY Physics And now….The Wall Street Journal! Watch out, NYC. We’re coming for YOU next!
DIY Physics!
It has recently come to our attention that there are some major physics experiments that haven’t been done yet. In an effort to extend our DIY ethos beyond filmmaking, Julie and I have decided to tackle physics and pursue the only award more elusive than the Golden Globe: the Nobel Peace Prize. We’re pretty certain [...]
Kfink Interview: Filmmakers Notebook
Our friend Patty Fantasia interviewed us for her filmmaking blog, Filmmakers Notebook. We’re happy to be included on her site with such folks as Marion Kerr (“Golden Earrings”), Justin Hedges (“The 3am Screenwriter”), and Rick Vaicius (Flyway Film Festival). We had the great pleasure of meeting Patty at Cinekink Vegas in May of 2010, and [...]
One Nightstand: Part Three
They say that writers write what they know. So, naturally, we wanna know more to be the best writers possible. Hence, a lot of late night reading. Here’s what we were reading back in March of 2010 and June of 2010. Ready to see what we’re soaking up now? Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to [...]
On Frozen Pond
We’ve lived in Chicago for a long time (Julie 11 years or so; Jess…most of her life), but each year, when the temps dip, we question what the heck we’re doing here. And yet…we haven’t budged. Our Lake (Michigan) hasn’t frozen over like the one in Phil Holbrook‘s backyard in Minnesota, but it’s still pretty [...]
Stolen Moments
About two years ago we made the insane decision to change our filmmaking hobby into a filmmaking career. We’d already made several shorts (see the Girl Rods series), but we made a pledge to make films we could actually show to people outside of our friend and family circle. And because we’re sassy, stubborn, and [...]
Sneak Peek: Flyway Film Fest 2010
We’re tired. We’re crabby. And we’re blaming Flyway Film Festival. In true Kfink fashion, we’re going to do a full recap of this weekend’s festival, but here are 5 quick reasons why we’re perturbed by Flyway Film Fest (and director Rick Vaicius, in particular.) #1 – Flyway Film Festival made us talk to people we’d [...]
“It Gets Better”- Kfink-Style!
Our friend Leontine brought Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” video project to our attention a couple of weeks ago, and we instantly knew that it was something we wanted to contribute to. And now that the TILT production dust has settled…we’ve done it. Made a video, that is. Dan’s “It Gets Better” project is a [...]
"It Gets Better"- Kfink-Style!
Our friend Leontine brought Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” video project to our attention a couple of weeks ago, and we instantly knew that it was something we wanted to contribute to. And now that the TILT production dust has settled…we’ve done it. Made a video, that is. Dan’s “It Gets Better” project is a [...]
The Whole World’s aTILT
We’ve both been home from our BrainerdQuest for a few days, and we’re settling into a routine that’s 1/2 old habits and 1/2 new hopes. Things are different now. We set out to shoot a feature film, and we did it. We really did it. Even though things weren’t always smooth sailing, we came through [...]
The Whole World's aTILT
We’ve both been home from our BrainerdQuest for a few days, and we’re settling into a routine that’s 1/2 old habits and 1/2 new hopes. Things are different now. We set out to shoot a feature film, and we did it. We really did it. Even though things weren’t always smooth sailing, we came through [...]