Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Our Film FAMILY INC's Sneak Preview at Cinequest!

Emily Ting approached me about making a film this time last year...lo and behold one year later not only did we shoot it...we held our first official sneak preview of the film today at the 18th Annual Cinequest Film Festival!!!!

Proud parents..er..co-directors, Emily and I- 10 minutes before the premiere.

This is our trailer:



Everything about this festival has been amazing so far. Can I gush? SERIOUSLY. LET ME GUSH about why I am wallowing in a haze of awesome glob pie now...

-the warm Cinequest staff that made us feel like rockstars

-Derek and Darnesha, our volunteer PR assistants who pimped us out and got our film into the blogosphere.
Get these SJSU kids jobs after they graduate! They're good!

-going to see Dear Zachary . Oh my goodness. Wow. Go see it.

-Seeing a theater PACKED full of people who placed their $10, time and trust on an unknown film and two unknown directors....wow!!!!! THAT was one of the top five highs of my life! (natural highs, people, natural highs!)
You guys are great! Thanks for coming!

-This was the first time I ever saw a film I made get projected in front of a public audience...I'll never get a first experience again, so that was pretty eventful.

-Hosting a Q&A session with an audience of intelligent and supportive people.

Seriously, I am more motivated to make films than ever now. Thank you Cinequest.

Our film will be showing two more times in San Jose.

3/5/08- 6:45pm
3/7/08- 11:30 am


Camera 12 Downtown
201 S. Second St.
San Jose, CA

Click here to purchase tickets.

Emily and I celebrate with our friends Tariq, Davy, Wan Yi and Emily's new hubby Josh.

Will blog more...this show aint'over yet!

ps- thank you to everyone who sent me good vibes. It worked!!!!!!!!

8 comments:

Jonathan Biddle said...

WOW! How awesome is that?!

*proudness*

Jodi said...

WOW!!! Congratulations! If I'd known about this I would have sent my good vibes ahead of time. Do they count during the process? I'm so happy/proud/excited for/of you. What an accomplishment. I can't wait to see the film sometime soon!

dan said...

Helen,

This is awesome! How can Stacey and I see this out in NYC?

Hellinjay said...

*hug to Jonathan*

THANKS! Shucks...(foot shuffle).

IT IS TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!

lol- hope this gets into the Taipei Film Festival. Then I can have an excuse to fly back and visit!

Hellinjay said...

Thanks Jodi!!!!!

It totally counts. :)
Thank you so much- we hope this gets into a festival in LA too...but we'll see!

And thank Eric for all the great advice he gave about the festival. He was totally right! They really did treat us very well.

ps- when we hangin' out?!?!?

Hellinjay said...

Thanks Dan! :)

Uh..if it gets into a festival there? Emily and I become bigger rockstars and get a distribution deal? I fly back to NYC and show it to you on DVD???? lol! I'll try to make it happen either way!

luvmegumi said...

hey awesome news! getting your film screened in front of audience is an amazing feeling! here's to many more!

Hellinjay said...

I totally agree with you, Megumi!
Thanks for the warm wishes!
Will you be able to grace Los Angeles anytime soon? People here miss you!