For the curious and queer: from a recent email to someone who had asked for input on casting trans people

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Cool. What's the timeline from here?

Twelve is actually pretty small. We got about a hundred trans people auditioning for The Switch. I think there are a lot more people to reach. With the general call for The Switch, we found that about 50 ( Read more... )

 Sequence of events at a film shoot

Cargo van gets stuck in the mud.

Much rocking and pushing fails to move it.

Fortunately, the 14-passenger van has a trailer hitch

14-passenger van gets stuck in the mud

Call a tow truck? Eventually, after a great amount of (risky) effort by 18 person crew proves repeatedly unsuccessful. Fortunately, we only ( Read more... )

 Notes for actors:

1. If you have a website, do not obfuscate or bury your email. If you do this, people who want you to audition for a part cannot reach you.

If you have done this because are deluged with fan email, please either:

a - get an agent and tell us how to contact them
OR
b - tell people who want to hire you to use particular subject keywords ( Read more... )

If there were computer-based artificial intelligences, would humans get along with them? There's a lot of science-fiction out there, especially movies, that suggest we should fear them. That they will "take over."

I see this as improbable and dangerously mistaken. The power-brokers on this planet are human. The world often changes to suit them. If a ( Read more... )

For a long time, expecting utopia, I asked myself "isn't there something else you should be doing."

This made it hard to focus.

And my mind raced for alternatives. Ways to fix things. Other ways to live? Projects to get there? And when I couldn't see a road to utopia, I found something to busy my mind with. Something not here, something to deny our ( Read more... )

Review of The Taqwacores

The Taqwacores is a low-budget comedy-drama based on Michael Muhammed Knight's book of the same name. (not to be confused with "Taqwacore," the documentary)

The story is one year in the life of Yusef, a square medical (or veterinary?) student who moves in to a dilapidated all-Muslim house in Buffalo, New York, not ( Read more... )