Fire-Wired Blog

 A year and a half ago I had an idea for a short film. Between that moment and roughly a year later I turned that idea into an actual thing, No Shortcuts . That is probably the best thing in filmmaking; a match is sparked and if you've got the supplies you can get a pretty righteous fire roaring. Well my small fire came together this past March and TONIGHT in Burlington, Iowa at the Snake Alley Festival of Film , audiences will get the chance to warm their hearts and minds with it. Did that metaphor work? I'm not sure. Idea, production, creation equals match, spark, fire. Right? Oh well. I've been watching a lot of Justin Hawkins Rides Again lately so I'm prone to metaphorical and performative fun at the moment.  If you haven't been playing along, No Shortcuts is a one-man-band film I produced over the course of 2021 and early 2022. It's a mix of my 8 year-old self wishing he had the strength of The Ultimate Warrior so he could run a mile in 5 minutes and my 38...

  A year ago I was super jazzed to share that a short film I directed and a screenplay I plucked out of my family history were headed for the Southern Iowa short film staple the Snake Alley Festival of Film . Sadly, a certain global minor apocalypse got in the way of that happening. But if the delta variant doesn't ravage the state of Iowa over the next month, it looks like A Widow's Might and Family Tree are all set to take the stage and screen in Burlington next month. I don't know if anyone was planning on making the trek to the " Backhoe Capital of the World, "   but if so, mark your calendar for August 5th and purchase your tickets now. Burlington is a lovely town and SNAFF is supposed to be the bees knees. If it wasn't for how busy my life is at the moment I would be staying down there all week for the film festival and all the filmmaker events. Alas, I will probably only make it for my projects and a little bit more. Tickets are quite reasonable for ...