LAC in Looeeville
I’ve learned this film festival process veers wildly between highs and lows. The most obvious lows are the rejections. Rejections and...
jchristy1515
- Jul 2
- 2 min
Actor Profile: Damon Bonetti
Some of you are old enough to remember the old Mac vs. PC ads. The ever brilliant John Hodgman played the stodgy, pudgy PC, in a...
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jchristy1515
- Jun 23
- 2 min
Crew Profile: Eddie and Miguel
So I'm doing a sidelight on my series of cast profiles to do a crew profile. Focusing on our all-world camera team of Eddie Bernard and...
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jchristy1515
- Jun 19
- 1 min
Cast Profile: Ellen Adair
Back in 2010 father directed a production of Playboy of the Western World at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. He cast this...
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jchristy1515
- Jun 12, 2021
- 3 min
Cast Profile: Briana Evigan
When you are trying to cast a movie with a tiny budget you send the script to people's agents and hope they like it enough to work on it...
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jchristy1515
- Feb 12, 2020
- 5 min
This Side of Parasite: Tarantino and the Oscars
[Warning: this essay has spoilers for Reservoir Dogs (get over it) and I guess a little of Parasite] So at the Oscars they showed a tiny...
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jchristy1515
- Jan 21, 2020
- 4 min
The Autism Post: Part 2
NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series about autism as it relates to my film Love and Communication. Click here for the last post...
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jchristy1515
- Dec 18, 2019
- 6 min
The Autism Post: Part One
Author’s disclaimer: This is the first of a two-part post about autism and autism treatment as it relates to my film Love and...
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jchristy1515
- Dec 11, 2019
- 7 min
The Social Media Post
So now that I'm close to having a movie I am using social media to try to promote it. This is what independent filmmakers are told...
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jchristy1515
- Dec 4, 2019
- 2 min
Greetings from Post
When I started a blog on this site I knew I probably wouldn’t update it enough to make it a real blog. And here I am a year after...
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jchristy1515
- Jan 15, 2019
- 9 min
My Thoughts on Die Hard, Part 3
Where I reluctantly acknowledge that I need to stop writing about Die Hard. We all knew it would happen eventually. We’ve come to my last...
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jchristy1515
- Jan 11, 2019
- 6 min
My Thoughts on Die Hard: Part Two
Where I actually start sharing my thoughts on Die Hard. Did you miss Part One? Catch up or you'll be lost! Last time I wrote in great...
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jchristy1515
- Jan 9, 2019
- 4 min
My Thoughts on Die Hard
Part One: Where I talk about why I’m sharing my thoughts on Die Hard. Dear neglected Loveandcommunication.com blog post reader, Happy new...
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jchristy1515
- Nov 27, 2018
- 1 min
The Pre-Post Post
I've learned there's a hangover period after you wrap a movie. You've been in this profound whirlwind of drama and artistic activity. You...
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jchristy1515
- Nov 19, 2018
- 1 min
We're Wrapped!
After an incredibly intense, stressful and beautiful three weeks, we wrapped principal photography for Love and Communication. I thought...
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jchristy1515
- Oct 5, 2018
- 1 min
Two Weeks!
Dear reader of this sadly neglected blog, When we created this site, it was my intention to blog about my process of making this...
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jchristy1515
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
Six Weeks to Shooting
I started writing notes for my play Love and Communication after a prolonged battle to get our son Jimmy into a good school following his...
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