john clark vincent

September 1, 2011

48-Hour & Willamette Writers Conference

Category: general commentary

The 48-Hour Film Project happened about a month ago… and I’m finally feeling like I recovered from that, but the challenge of feeling that way is hampered by the fact that we’re coming down to the wire on selling our house, buying another house and having one weekend to move. That has been a bigger challenge than 48-HFP. However, 48-Hour went well. The team I was on finished our film, which I will post in a moment, and although we didn’t win the audience award for our screening set, we did make Best of 48-Hour Portland. So that was great.

Willamette Writers Conference happened the same weekend as 48-Hour, so I wasn’t able to attend much of it. On Friday I pitched a new screenplay to two producers (one is actually more of a manager), and both asked to see it. I’m working on getting it ready to send, and hope to have that sent off in the next week. Fingers crossed, hoping that someone actually likes it.

Also at WWC, I attended the banquet and accepted my award for poetry writing. Although mine was a very small award, I take great pride in knowing that I received my award as a part of the same program that bestowed awards on Barry Lopez and Gus Van Sant.