Keep swimming

Aside from my short film, I've also been working on other projects.

I'm working on a sci-fi project with another indie director. We're looking to try and get it sold or funded. I'm trying to write it in such a way that it won't be hard to shoot locally, but has the ability to bend to a real budget. Eric, my collaborator, also has plans for a sci-fi TV comedy which he has written a pilot for. He wants me to write an episode of that too.

Not to mention that I've got a great idea for a script with a powerful female lead. I want to shoot a trailer for that and fully flush out the script. I think I could shop it around if I was able to show potential backers what I had in mind.

My dream project is a series of films that I've dubbed "The Trilogy". They started out as one film about a man on a mission to decipher the female mind, but have painfully evolved into something much more. So much more that it requires three films to do it. Only one film has been started, the second has an outline, but the third is still in limbo.

I venture to say that I've got enough ideas in my skull to last me a long, long, long, long time.

9/11 has also been something I've been thinking about. I praise and condemn Oliver Stone for his film. On the one hand, he was brave enough to tackle an event that is still so fresh in our collective consciousness. It is important that we tell this story and that we tell this story now. On the flip side, I know that there are a lot of people who are still dealing with the tragedy of 9/11 and those of whom it has affected personally. I think we all have some stake in what happened that day in September. I might have not been there or known anyone who died in the attacks, but I considered myself a New Yorker that day. I think we all were that day.

I want to do a film, mostly for myself, for purging, about 9/11. I'm caught up in all sorts of things about 9/11. It's my Kennedy assassination, it seems. I'm fascinated, sickened, angered and saddened about Sept. 11th. I need to turn that pain and hatred into something useful. For myself. For anyone who wants to see it. I'm not sure how I will approach the subject yet. I'm still in planning.

There's so much to do and so little time, it seems. I hope I get a little time.

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