For those times when your attention span lags, a tasting menu of short subjects:
- The Journal of Short Film just released Volume 6 (Winter 2007). Guest editor Sam Green, a noted short film maker, also made the Oscar-nominated feature documentary The Weather Underground. See the complete list of shorts here. [NB: A film that appeared in Volume 4 (Summer 2006)—Borja Cobeaga's Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)—was just nominated for Best Live Action Short Film.]
- The Movies By Women Podcast Channel launches on iTunes, YouTube, and MoviesByWomen.com on February 14. Listen to interviews with director Karen Moncrieff, whose movie The Dead Girl earned her a Best Director nomination for this year's Spirit Awards; Come Early Morning director Joey Lauren Adams and star Ashley Judd; and Air Guitar Nation director Alexandra Lipsitz.
- Tomorrow is the deadline to make your voice heard in the Film Comment Readers' Poll. Complete it online here if you like. Just know that you'll have to hurdle over a buncha of market research queries first. Lie.
- The early deadline to submit short films to Short Circuit is February 15. Works by Southern filmmakers living in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee will serve as the "opening acts" for the filmmakers touring on the 2007-2008 Southern Circuit and be seen by audiences in communities throughout the South.
- It lives! Just yesterday the cinetrix was sporting her Trio tee while stripping wallpaper paste [sexy, no?]. Today Trio poohbah Lauren Zalaznick announced the launch of getTRIO.com, a site with "the same inherent sensibilities as the TRIO television network, a place where we celebrated the high-, worshipped the low-, and always stayed far away from the middle- (brow, that is)."
Also, FOC Mark Olsen talks with Black Snake Moan composer Scott Bowmar in the NYT:
"It was like, O.K., I know two musicians who live in my town and played on some of the coolest film scores of all time. They're also two of the most sampled musicians in rap music, so it just totally made sense."
