Check out my film “Palindrome” in Athens, Ohio, at the AthensFest. It’ll be showing Wednesday, May 30, at 7.30pm. I won’t be there, unfortunately, but give me a heads up if you get to attend and catch my film. I’m so thrilled that Palindrome has been getting into so many festivals. We have a 70% success rate! Of course, in the future when I submit my work (future=better work) I will not be hoping to be accepted to film festivals but hoping to win awards and such. One step at a time though. Though short, Palindrome obviously has some kind of universal appeal as an experimental work of art. It’s given me great ideas for other works I’m doing - video can be anything you make it. Don’t be afraid to break the rules. I think that’s the main thing. But you gotta know the rules before you break them, and therein lies the learning.

Hey everyone -

I was a bit preemptive to ask all of you to go to youtube, though it helped me a lot. The Obama team has made its own site for the contest. There are two ways they are counting votes. One way is “Most Viewed.” So could you visit this link & enter your email so they can count your “view” vote? Of course, pass it along to friends and family if you get a chance, too -

http://obamain30seconds.org/vote/?v=view-1675-2meM6f

They won’t send you any emails, it’s just to prevent voting fraud (to have someone click refresh over and over). If you’d like to view and vote some of the other videos (this is the second way they count votes), and see what my competition is all about:

http://www.obamain30seconds.org/vote/?id=12484-9104616-.95ni5

Thanks for supporting my activism, my art, and me, and ultimately, Obama.

I will return the favor any way I can.

All my love,

Isabelle (& Drew)

So among 4 other film festivals so far, my film “Palindrome” has gotten into the Kansas Jubilee Film Festival. It’s showing tonight (Friday, April 18) at 4.15pm, at Tivoli Cinema, in Kansas City. It’s also showing tomorrow (Saturday, April 19) at 7.30pm, at Westport House Theater. Which is also in Kansas City.

I can’t make it out to Kansas this time, though if you’re living in and around the area, please tell me how it goes, and any news and reports from the festival!!! My b-side page can be found here.

Go film festivals. Especially those that accept my weirdest stuff. The next one is Athens, but I’ll blog later about that one.

Abrazo

Iza

I’ve been sending out all these emails to my list and neglecting my blog. It’s time for a change! So I’ll go ahead and update you with my latest funny bad/good news to start with -

My beautiful, expensive HVR-Z1U camera needs major repair. Do you know how it feels to send in your camera to a blank, faceless, maybe-it’ll-be-under-warranty repair service? It feels like you’re sending off your child to summer camp in Mongolia and you don’t know if they’ll come back. Nothing against Mongolia. But without my camera, I can’t produce new stuff. Which is probably a good thing, seeing HOW much backlog I have to work through still, including, but not limited to:

1. The Dominican Republic documentary - in full.

2. Vietnam in Poems - the rest of the vignettes (yes, there are more than three)

3. Polynesian Dancers short

4. Will Copeland Poem short

5. Iraq Veteran Interviews (w/ Aidan Delgado) short

It makes me jittery thinking about how much work I have on my plate. I’ll update you guys as soon as new work comes out!!!