Film--everything about it, writing, the World--Especially Turkey, Peru, Kenya, Japan, Spain and Scotland, hiking, Art and cultures, animals, children, wisdom from our elderly, Business, traveling, charities, biking, meditation, camping, ballet, theater, reading, metaphysics, Quantum Physics, yoga, renewing self every day
Coloring... CARPE DIEM
LIVING:
FILM WORLD: Kate Winslet-Paul Newman-Ed Harris-Sophia Loren-Ellen Burstyn-Benicio Del Toro-Max von Sydow-Carol Burnett-Hsiao-hsien Hou, Tim Burton, Niki Caro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jean-Pierre Jeunet,Pedro Almodóvar,Jane Campion, David Lynch
NO LONGER HERE IN PHYSICAL FORM: C.Chaplin, Gandhi, Lucille Ball, Frida Kahlo, John Steinbeck, Frederick Douglass, Jack Lemmon, Harriet Tubman, Jane Austen, Mozart, Federico Fellini, Chris Ledoux
**THE MOST IMPORTANT people I would like to meet: Ozzy's parents and sister (in Turkey) and, my sister......
PROJECTS:
ONGOING projects:
***Producing The Shaolin Project (Documentary) www.theshaolinwarriors.com and www.shaolinproject.org
***Director of Operations (and Segment Producer)of ReelAid (www.reel-aid.org)
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PROJECTS--
***Helped Anthony Rivero Stabley produce his short film "ELECTRONICA 2". Great to work with a film with an artistic center
***Helped Paradoxial Productions with their Music Video for Johnny Hallyday (THE Elvis of France), as Coordinator
*** Worked on "Rock Slyde" with Patrick Warburton, Andy Dick, Elaine Hendrix, Rena Sofer and Jamie Alexander in June. BELOW IS THE DIRECTOR, Chris Dowling's short FILM.
***March Helped produce Renata Green Gaber's "Torn" 1600's Vampire 35mm
***In Jan. worked with Jeff Pohorski and Sven Jansel(SkunkFilms.com) on THE GOLDEN CITY trailer-- and will work on FEATURE SOON!
***Lastly, producing another documentary in and 3 other features pending.
BELOW is ROCK SLYDE Dir. Chris Dowling's Short Film
Eclectic.
Foreign and Indies are the favorites. THESE ARE SOME MOVIES THAT INSPIRE ME.
FOREIGN: Amelie (probably my fav), The Piano, The Warrior, Three Times, Turtles can Fly, My Life as a Dog, City of God, 8 1/2, All about My Mother,The Full Monty, Amores Perros, Pelle Erobreren, Like Water for Chocolate, Tito and Me, Layer Cake, Pan's Labyrinth, The Weeping Camel, Billy Elliot, Whale Rider, Double Happiness, Life is Beautiful, Qian li zou dan qi ..DOMESTIC: 21 Grams, The Kid, Schindler's List, The Sandlot, The Usual Suspects, Letters of Iwa Jima, Vertigo, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Swingers, The Color Purple, Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), Requiem for a Dream, Fried Green Tomatoes, Quinceañera, Babel, Trainspotting, It's a Wonderful Life, American Splendor, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Joy Luck Club, Radio Flyer, Papillion, 300, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Muholland Drive, Rent, Mary Poppins, Glengarry Glenn Ross, The Odd Couple, Muriel's Wedding, A River Runs Through It, The Wedding Singer, Lost Boys, Big, 12 Monkeys, Sin City, Stand By Me, Reality Bites, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Outsiders, Napolean Dynamite, My Left Foot, Dad, Soul Food, Angela's Ashes, Edward Scissorhands, James and the Giant Peach, Higher Learning, The Deer Hunter, Shawshank Redemption, Boyz n' the Hood, Saturday Night Fever, Chocolat, All about Eve, Breakfast Club, Some Like it Hot, Mulan, Caddyshack, Frieda, Brokeback Mountain, American History X, Cry Baby, Wizard of Oz, Chaplin, Everybody's All American, The Best Man, What Dreams May Come, Jungle Fever, Sunset Boulevard, Dumb and Dumber, Little Miss Sunshine, Out of Africa, What the .(bleep). Do We Know, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Hitch, Taxi Driver, Citizen Kane, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tombstone, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Igby Goes Down, The Graduate, Malcolm X, The Hours, Bowling for Columbine, The Great Dictator, Se7en, Time Bandits, Desperado, 12 Angry Men, The Notebook, to name a few. ;)Films with complexity and raw human-ness--films that stays with you.
Rarely.....The Office, once in awhile.
"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, not appetite; medicine, not health; acquaintances, not friends; servitude, not faithfulness; days of leisure, not peace and happiness." - Henrik Ibsen
East of Eden, Diary of Anne Frank (as a child and now), Pride and Prejudice,Rich Dad-Poor Dad, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, Water for Elephants, Celestine Prophecy, The Kite Runner, Silent Spring, Seat of the Soul, Memoirs of a Geisha, Angela's Ashes, Power of Intention, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Read mostly the classics or anything about Quantum Physics, Film or spirituality.
All of US! Let's paint the World!
"You could search the world over and never find anyone more deserving of your love than yourself."