Canada Day!

It's been a while since there was an update so I thought I would break the silence by updating a little about what's been going on.

Not sure if I told you guys, but I have two films screening at the Queer Film Festival in August; the one I wrote in film school and one of the documentary shorts I made with YouthCO and the National Film Board of Canada. They're still getting the dates and schedule for all the films sorted out, but I'll let you guys know when it'll be. I believe I get a few complimentary tickets for friends and family if anyone wants to go with me :)

For the past... week and a half, possibly less, I've been re-writing a script I finished in film school to submit to a screenwriting competition. One of my teachers at VFS told us that around 100 scripts are sent in each time, and since 4 - 6 scripts get chosen for workshopping (by a bunch of people who know what they're doing, and they'll talk about the steps to take after, ie. production, finding people who might be interested in making it), the chances of us (ie. students) getting picked are pretty good. I used the deadline of the competition to push myself to re-write it, since I haven't done so since graduation, which I'm glad I did because I'm not sure if I could've done it without any motivation or goal. The deadline was June 30th, and I managed to finish re-writing the night before, and ended up handing in my application about half an hour before the office of the building closed. So now it's waiting to see what'll happen... in the meantime, I think I might send it out to other competitions, but they're all so expensive, and since I don't have a job right now, it's gonna be hard...

Registration for the fall semester is tomorrow and is really stupid because my registration time is at 12:00 noon and I'm in the middle of class at noon. I guess I'll have to step out of class for 5 minutes or something and then come back. Anyway, that's kinda lame.

How's everyone and their love lives doing? I feel like we haven't all hung out in a long time... let's get together soon again!



Aaron