Festivals, New Projects, and More!

Jessica & Julie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:51:03 +0000

Lots of exciting things happening with King is a Fink these days. Here’s just a little taste:

Hooray! Our short movie LIBIDOLAND has been accepted into the 2010 Cinekink NYC Film Festival. We’re so honored. When we learned about this festival through Twitter, we knew that it could be a great fit for our kinky, quirky short about a loving couple stepping into the world of bondage for the first time. Many thanks to Cinekink co-founder and director Lisa Vandever for taking such good care of us. Cinekink often takes their show on the road, so we’re hoping we can talk Lisa into making a stop in Chicago. You know…for our moms.

We’re headed to 2010 EgoFest Short Film Festival in Brainerd, Minnesota, to meet festival organizer and filmmaker Phil Holbrook face-to-face. We’ve already met with Phil a few times via Skype to discuss the feature-length dramatic thriller we’re writing for him; he plans to direct it later this year. Phil is in the process of setting up a website to which we will all post progress reports on the script-writing, fund-raising, and the overall collaboration process. More on that soon!

We’ve finished the first draft of our 3rd feature length screenplay, a dark comedy called THE UNLOVABLES. Logline: A jaded single woman drags her unwitting family to Vegas to track down the serial killer who passed her by for her hotter, blonder best friend. Yes, this one’s pretty dark, but it’s also very funny. In it we explore single life, married expectations, skewed relationship goals, interactions between adult siblings, and the very basic desire just to be chosen by someone. We’re currently collecting feedback and suggestions from trusted friends and readers. We’re also working with Script Dr. Eric, who is giving us valuable tips about our query letter. The next step: getting feedback from the helpful readers at BlueCat Screenwriting Competition (deadline = 3/1/10 & they give GREAT notes), revising, and then trying to find a home for our newest endeavor. Click here to learn more about THE UNLOVABLES or to read the first 15 pages.

Lastly, next week filmmaker Tyler Weaver, is relaunching his website Multi-Hyphenate (here’s the old version) and turning it into more of a blog-o-zine. His first celebrity guest is Frederick Marx of Warrior Films. Frederick is 1/2 of the team responsible for the documentary HOOP DREAMS. When Tyler asked us to contribute a post to his maiden week, we happily said yes. We did a piece about collaboration, which we’re doing a lot of these days. We’ll keep you posted about when our entry is up!

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