Wow, a website news update? I must have a movie coming out.
So excited to announce I’ve directed a segment for the latest installment of the V/H/S franchise, and we’re world premiering at TIFF! We’ll also be playing this year’s Fantastic Fest & more, before landing at our streaming home on Shudder on October 20th.
See below for the shiny-shiny official press releases:
Like everyone else in the world, I’m in self-quarantine at home right now…which means, updates to all the platforms, including my much-neglected website.
MY VALENTINE premiered in Feb 2020 (i.e. two months ago) and lives on Hulu from now on. I’m so massively proud of this movie, y’all, and deeply humbled by all the incredible feedback it received. Really there is nothing more thrilling than to write and direct a film AS A JOB. I still feel like the luckiest human alive that I get to do this for a living, it is absolutely bananas.
Here are few links to my favorite reviews. Enjoy!
After a lovely festival run (including screenings at the Pasadena Film Festival, New Filmmakers LA, YoFiFest and many more), DIVA is available to watch on Vimeo. Written and directed by yours truly, DIVA is a sparkly little nightmare about a year in the touring life of a troubled pop star.
Check it out!
Very proud of this romantic & melancholy music video I directed for the divine Miss Anna Akana — which premiered just in time for LA Pride!
Check out the interview/video coverage on Refinery 29 - and watch the video for Alone Together on Anna’s YT channel.
What a delight it was to see this very cool profile come to life on the newly launched Belle en Argent blog! I really loved doing this interesting interview, and the format is super fun. Plus - vegan beauty products! Check it out: Meet Maggie on Belle en Argent
Loved doing this short but sweet interview with Voyage LA Magazine. Always excited to share my philosophies about filmmaking - it’s a team sport, y’all! Plus excellent BTS pics from the set of Miss 2059, Dunkin & more.
It was such a pleasure to direct "The Witch's Spell" for the Yarn app this past Halloween! This branded content piece marked the first of several upcoming collabs with the amazing Yarn team. I can't wait to share the wild series we're making for Valentine's Day...
Check out the love we got from Adweek - including the namecheck/shoutout! Thanks ya'll.
VAIN is having a rad festival run. Our team just got back from the awesome Nashville Film Festival - it was the first year ever for their VR category! We met some incredible folks, and I went to a screening of SCORE: A Film Music Documentary...which is possibly my favorite documentary of all time. Cried through the entire John Williams segment.
A few weeks ago, producer MeeRa Kim and I spoke on a panel at the Artemis Film Fest, where VAIN was included in their Hyperator/Oculus VR lounge programming.
Coming up, we're also in the lineup for this year's International Vampire Film & Arts Festival, and have been nominated for their best-of-fest "Golden Stake" Award. Everyone on the VAIN team (especially meeee) wishes we could haul out to Transylvania for IVFAF, which is sure to be a really special fest. I also just got word we'll also be included in Italy's IIPM Festival.
Not too shabby for a gory lil short! Hopefully we'll be adding a couple more laurels to the list before the year is out.
We're nearly at the end of our second week in the writers room for Miss 2059 S2. This experience has already been such a singular & special one. Making up outrageous supernatural stories with my girlfriends is a favorite pastime - to get to do it as a job is absolutely unreal. Can't wait to see our radical space antics come to life!
A Key West Film Fest-blogger gave a shoutout to my VR short, VAIN: This Party Sucks -- Check it out! http://dimthehouselights.com/2016/12/key-west-film-festival-a-travelogue/