Star Wars: Revelations
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June 30, 2005

http://tanjpunk.blogspot.com/

My daughter has reactivated her Blog. Good stuff.
In other news OMFG! I NEED ANOTHER THEME FOR
NEXT MONTH TOMORROW!!! Where does the time go?

June 29, 2005

Gina joins up with Mike E. Pringle for UFAC.

This family friendly endeavor is another independent project but with some corporate backers.
I may also ride Gina's coattails again into a role in this production later.

A healthy dose of Truth

From the Boston Globe The return of '1984' By H.D.S. Greenway.
From the LA Times Supreme Court Expands Power of Eminent Domain by David G. Savage.
From the Pioneer Press Flag-burning amendment erodes your rights by Glenda Holste.

"What county can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance."
- Thomas Jefferson

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw, Liberty

Truth : the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.
- Richard Childers

June 21, 2005

Nick's Graduation!

This is a very significant event for us.
This particular graduation marks a very specific milestone, not just for Nicholas, but for Gina and I as well. You see after many trials and tribulations, after many sleepless nights, after many slammed doors (with the requisite "I hate you!" screamed through them), this was the last graduation for us. We had four right in a row, but this one is the last. This is, for Gina and I, the end of dealing with the school system. No more preschool shopping, no more lost permission slips, no more missed busses, forgotten homework, calls about missed days, concerns about snow days and coordinating family vacations around school schedules. Gone, all gone, and I for one could not be happier about it. I had always hated the school system as a student growing up, and as a parent with kids in school, I found I didn't like it much better. Let us not however digress into a diatribe about the shortcomings of the American public school system. Instead let us say Congratulations to Nick and quietly reflect on our good fortune through out all of this.

June 15, 2005

Divx releases new version 6 player featuring "Revelations".

YES! That's right, you heard it here first. Divx is releasing a new player and giving away Revelations with the various commentary tracks included.
I just checked it out and man it is cool.

Go see for yourself here.
More details here.

Anyway, here we are. Gina and I now have our first agent in NYC and things are looking good. The only problem is that our new agent only does Television commercials. That's not bad, but I really want to break into Sci Fi television. One must start somewhere however, and this is as good a place as any.

June 5, 2005

Revelations Action figures?
No, not really. (Relax Shane!)

My buddy Tim of Creatures and Characters did these concept
drawings of Gina and I as Revelations action figures.
I laughed my ass off at the sight of these things. Thanks Tim!

Also check out an excellent article by Dan Neil about Revelations, Independent Fan Films and the future of Hollywood here.
This guy gets it.
He's totally asking the right questions.

Australia!

Force IV:
'The 3rd Star Walking Star Wars Fan Film Festival'

Star Walking for those who don't know (and I certainly didn't) is the Star Wars Appreciation Society of Australia. The reason that is important is that when "Revelations" won the recent Balticon Film Festival some people accused us of somehow fixing the results by having more people there. More people know us in the Baltimore MD area, more of us could be there to vote on our film, and so on. My statements that there were over a hundred ballots cast in that Film Festival, and that only a handful of us voted on our own film, and that that wasn't really enough to throw the results one way or the other given the margin of victory were met with derisive comments and 'Whatever' attitudes at best.

What we have here then is an agency that we had no influence over.
I can assure you that no one flew over to Australia to vote, or even campaign, for our little movie.
This then is a more honest review, by a more objective audience.
All of that being said, here then are the results:

Posted 30th May, 2005
Winners of 'The 3rd Star Walking Star Wars Fan Film Festival' are

Best Live Action: Revelations
Best Animation: Run Leia Run
Best Actor: (Ian Rooney) Betrayal
Best Actress: (Gina Hernandeq) Revelations
Cinematography: Betrayal
Production Design: Revelations
Editing: Revelations
Visual Effects: Revelations
Best Trailer: Rob Hamilton for 'Desert Duel'
Fan Choice: Tim's New Hope

Enteries for 'The 3rd Star Walking Star Wars Fan Film Festival' were:-
Betrayal (Australia)
Dark Blood (Australia)
George Lucas Legend of the Force (New Caledonia)
Revelations (USA)
Run Leia Run (USA)
Tim's New Hope (Australia)
Wrath of the Mandalorian (Australia)

Needless to say I am very proud of the "Best Actress" credit in particular. (As an aside to those anonymous posters of various forums, Slashdot and theforce.net for instance, who unfairly and with needless malice criticized our acting in general and Gina's performance in particular, I'd just like to say;
TAKE THAT! IN YOUR FACE!!
You petty, jealous, mean spirited, cowardly little bastards!

. . .

Usually I try to refrain from stooping to their level, but . . . what the hell,
I'm feeling very happy and proud and justified . . . so screw them. HAHA!)

I'd like to extend a thank you to the good folks at Star Walking; with quiet acknowledgment of the little known Australian quirk of replacing the letter "z" with the letter "q" when it appears at the end of Spanish sounding names. ;-)
As well as my most sincere congratulations and best wishes to the other winners.

Link here.

IMDB

I'm now listed on IMDB. Gina is also and I just submitted her picture for them so it should be up in 72 hours or so. The IMDB Revelations listing is starting to populate and it looks really good. In spite of all of this good news however WE STILL NEED AN AGENT!!!! Every attempt to network to an agent has so far met with nothing but frustration. It's as if these guys can't see what is happening right in front of them.
Meanwhile, while at Balticon, we met with our buddies over at Rising Phoenix Productions and things have really started to take shape for them. Their production, in which Gina is slated to play a sexy, psychotic killer and I've been cast as a megalomaniacal Vice Admiral, is really starting to look quite serious.