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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
Oct 10, 20227 min read
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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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Jul 2, 20222 min read
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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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Jun 23, 20222 min read
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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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Jun 19, 20221 min read
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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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Jun 12, 20213 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Feb 12, 20205 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Jan 21, 20204 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Dec 18, 20196 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Dec 11, 20197 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Dec 4, 20192 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Jan 15, 20199 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Jan 11, 20196 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Jan 9, 20194 min read
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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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Nov 27, 20181 min read
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We're Wrapped!
After an incredibly intense, stressful and beautiful three weeks, we wrapped principal photography for Love and Communication. I thought...
jchristy1515
Nov 19, 20181 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Oct 5, 20181 min read
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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...
jchristy1515
Sep 10, 20181 min read
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