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S2 Opener for CANNED

It's Official: S2 of CANNED is Live!

Listen, maybe there's a message.

Choose happy things. Say yes to help. Listen and learn.

My Volunteer Program Gets Canned

For almost exactly a year, I've volunteered with a refugee and immigrant services program. It's part of what having a 4-day work week allowed me to do. Today...

Find your donuts.

January 22, 2025

The apocalypse is disrupting work. Too bad.

(un)Canned with Pam & Amy

December 5, 2024

A conversation with the team behind CANNED: Conversations about Getting Fired.

Lucky 13 & Thoughts About CANNED

October 31, 2024

Look at all these freakin’ laurels. Whew. We bagged our 13th laurel last week when we were listed as a semi-finalist for the Oslo Independent Film Festival....

That Famous Chinese Theater in LA?

September 5, 2024

LA screening, a note from our PA, and a personal update.

Canned is cooking

"It's like Modern Love for getting fired."

Lemonade from Losses

Welcome to Canned: Conversations about Getting Fired.

Last night I brought home the Best Screenplay award from the Seattle Film Festival. I was completely unprepared and did not know what to say when I went up...

An interview with our Elvis

PNW Indie Nominations

Five new nominations, FIVE, including one for our makeup artist.

Playing the Odds

Real data on film festival odds.

I'm on the Finding Favorites podcast

Elvis and ebikes

Seattle Film Festival: Virtual Round

We're in another virtual festival. Here's how you can watch.

Virtual Screening This Weekend

Virtual screening information for this weekend only.

Notes from NYC #4

When the plane banked over Seattle, I had minute where it all looked new to me, all that water, all that green. New York is all kinds of magical, but...

Notes from NYC #3

Yesterday was the first time I’ve watched a movie with Amy and Rocco. We made a movie together and I’ve watched loads of movies on my own, hell, I screened...

Notes from NYC #2

If you’re not on social media, first GOOD FOR YOU, do everything you can to keep it that way. Also, if you’re not on social, you might have missed the big...

Notes from NYC #1

Pam, Rocco, Amy, Andrew red carpeting at NY Cinefest This isn’t a pro photo. I handed my phone to a youngster who was nearby and he took a few snaps while...

Start Spreading the News

It's up to you, New York.

Time to get a tux.

Big Final Feelings

I'm not crying, you're crying. I had washed the dishes and was about to settle on a movie when my phone lit up with messages from Rocco (director) and Amy...

Two things:There's a screening coming, I promise. It turns out film takes as long as it takes. There are a lot of people involved, even for a small project...

Elvis Bags a Film Award

February 25, 2024

Welcome to the new platform. Again. Jeez. I've moved off Substack because one Nazi is too many. You shut that down right away. Them's the rules. I'm now on...

Good news, no news

December 2, 2023

Production and festival updates

Notes from the festival screening desk

October 21, 2023

Hang on, is she still in that same suit?

September 8, 2023

Let's hope it's not limited to that.

Rough cuts and LUTs

August 25, 2023

Squinting at the finish line

Budget highlights

August 16, 2023

Where'd that money go? Here's where.

... and other news

See you in the lobby.