08.25.05 - The best festivals are the ones you don't even apply to...we just received word that Messages has been selected for the inaugural Pathways Digital Studio International Film Festival this September in Kansas City. The festival will be held at the AMC Ward Parkway Cinemas, which have been equipped for digital projection. More details when the Festival's schedule is announced.
07.25.05 - Messages picks up Best Amateur Feature at Real to Reel!
07.01.05 - Real to Reel has just announced its schedule. Messages will be showing as the festival's opening-night feature, Wednesday, July 20th, at around 8:45 P.M. The venue will be the Joy Performance Theater in Kings Mountain.
06.24.05 - We just received word that Messages has been selected by the Real to Reel Film and Video Festival in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte. The festival will be taking place from July 20th-23rd. Screening details will be made available as soon as they are posted. This will be our first East Coast showing!
06.06.05 - The Maple Valley Digital Film Festival just announced their awards...and Messages came away with Best Local Feature. ("Local," in this case, appears to refer to films from the Seattle area.) Congratulations to all on our first festival award!
05.24.05 - Messages will be showing twice at Seattle's inaugural SalmonDance Film Festival. Screenings will be held on Saturday, June 4th, at 3:15 P.M. at the Henry Art Gallery (15th Avenue N.E. & N.E. 41st Street on the University of Washington campus) and Monday, June 13th, at 8:30 P.M. at Re-bar (1114 Howell Street at Boren Avenue).
03.12.05 - Let it never be said that there was any film festival "hotter" than Maple Valley last night. In fact, it was hot enough to trigger a fire alarm, bringing about the evacuation of the festival in mid-evening. The ensuing delay meant that Messages became an
inadvertent "midnite movie." At least it got a great reception from the faithful remnant of film fans devoted enough to stick around well into early Saturday morning...we promise, the next Seattle-area screening will be at a more reasonable hour!
03.11.05 - Messages makes the news! We receive prominent mention in this King County Journal article about the Maple Valley Digital Film Festival.
03.01.05 - Messages will receive its festival premiere at the 2005 Maple Valley Digital Film Festival. The screening time will be Friday, March 11th, at 9:25 P.M., at the Tahoma Lecture Hall.
02.28.05 - Messages has received a nomination for Best First Feature from the 2005 Bare Bones International Independent Film Festival. It will be screening twice at Bare Bones: Wednesday, April 20th, at 8:00 P.M. (at the Shadowwood Mall Cinema), and Saturday, April 23rd, at 10:30 P.M. (at the Muskogee Civic Center), as the closing film of the festival.
02.08.05 - Messages has been selected by the 2005 Bare Bones International Independent Film Festival. Held in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Bare Bones is recognized in Chris Gore's industry-standard reference Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide as one of the twenty "Best Truly Independent Film Festivals" world-wide. The festival will take place from April 18th to 24th. Further details on our screening time will be posted as soon as they become known.
12.18.04 - The cast and crew screening went great! Thanks to all who could make it. For those who couldn't, we're looking at holding a second, public showing sometime in Spring. Check back here for further information. DVDs will be sent out to all those who couldn't make it to the screening. If your address has changed since the production period, please send me your new address by clicking here.