Posted by Jean Jessup on Monday, June 11, 2012,
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Webisode
 Zhon: The Alien Interviews is a webisode about an alien from another planet named Zhon, played by Robert Linden, who shows up at a US Secret Service office hoping to be interviewed by Amanda Bella, played by Alida Holguin Gunn, a beautiful host of a spiritual TV talk show. As a result he's kept in custody by Secret Service Agents, among them, Agent Killjoy, played by Eric Schumacher The agents are trying to determine if he really is an alien. They do allow Amanda Bella to interview him and... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Saturday, March 31, 2012,
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Shorts
AZ 100 INDIE FILM is a celebration of the Arizona Centennial
showing the best of 100 short films made in Tucson. It was hosted by the Screening Room and featured entries from past years at the Arizona International Film Festival.
METAMORA
by Keisha Richardson is playful stop-motion animation showing the 2-D journey
of a star over various simple landscapes.
Great background musi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Monday, March 19, 2012,
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Shorts
On March 16, 2012, Authentic Productions, a local film
production company, which I would call a real film collective, presented
themselves to the Tucson
community by holding a screening
of some of their works at the Crossroads Cinema. Their event included a red carpet photo shoot
complete with professional photographers and a meet-and-greet with the cast and
crew of the featured sh... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Sunday, January 22, 2012,
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Shorts
 JANUARY 2012 FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS (FFS)
The Loft Theater was packed and so was the parking lot. I had to find parking on the street. Michael Sterner was “UNWELL” as Max Cannon
put it. He also introduced the New Year
as the “Beginning of Oblivion.” Now I
see where he goes on the internet.
Personally, I think it’s going to be a great year for people who are
awake enough... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Monday, December 5, 2011,
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Shorts
DECEMBER 2011 FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS (FFS)
I got my press pass for the First Friday Shorts! I love my pass. It has my name in big letters and (not to worry, Loft Cinema) of course, I will ONLY use it for the First Friday Shorts. I feel so legit, supported and special now.
Filler shorts before the show started:
I couldn’t find the Christmas puppet filler short, but I found this one instead:
Santa in Animal Land (1948)
Mah Na Mah Na
Rules of the First Friday Shorts
It amazes m... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Saturday, October 15, 2011,
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Shorts
I missed all the beginning filler shorts because I was very late, but in time for the first entry. Overall the shorts were surprisingly very good which made for decent viewing for my very critical friend, Tina Huerta, who is a local producer of indie films. She attended to do research on a secret project that we are doing together.
Especially clever comments by Mike Sterner this month and Max was in great form. There was that great feeling of a wild slumber party in the theater.
R... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Friday, July 22, 2011,
 Don't let the poster fool you into thinking that S.O.L. is another teen suicide. Far from it! It's a romantic comedy/coming-of-age type story for older boys who don't live at home anymore. Written, directed and produced by Yuri Machado and Authentic Productions, S.O.L. tells the tale of Victor, a twenty-something guy, who is shy with girls and finally realizes that internet porn is no replacement for a relationship with a real woman. This is an important message! Get off the internet an... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Saturday, May 21, 2011,
I DREAM IN WIDESCREEN
– BFA Thesis Films from the U of A School
of Theatre, Film & Television at
the Fox Theater, Tucson, AZ I have not found any of these shorts online yet. Alex
Italics, prolific local filmmaker, helped with many of the films.The University of Arizona Filmmaking program is getting a lot of recognition out in the real world as evidenced by FotoKem offering The ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Sunday, May 15, 2011,
MAGIC HOUR was the University
of AZ BFA class of 2012’s student short films screening event hosted by the
Loft Cinema. The shorts had very high production values, including
great lighting, cinematography and color-correction which made for easy
viewing. At this time, I’ve only been
able to find one of the shorts online.
CHECKING OUT by Damon Mosier, Director & Darious Britt, Director of
Photography. This is a dark comedy short
about two thugs who accidently kill their hostage and... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Tuesday, May 10, 2011,
6TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GONG AWARDS
I usually don't like these year-end First
Friday Shorts (FFS) awards because in the past, the audience
has had such bad taste in picking winners. But I was pleasantly
surprised by the high quality of most of the films.
When I arrived on time at 9:00pm, the placed was absolutely packed.
I think there may have been one or two seats left in the large
ground-floor screening room. I also had to park across the street.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Monday, April 4, 2011,
 Check out my review of Jon Proudstar's latest feature-length romantic comedy, "So Close To Perfect" at Tucson Filmmaker online magazine. Continue reading ...
Posted by Jean Jessup on Sunday, March 13, 2011,
Check out my review of this event at Tucson Filmmaker Magazine OnlineEvery local short is reviewed plus my favorite filler shorts shown in March'11. The winner of the March'11 First Friday shorts is below: Continue reading ...
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