Hot/Cold... is "warming" up...

Daniel is posting...

As per usual, a day working with Frank and Robby was very insightful. We were doing some last minute location scouting, which is always frightening, because things have to go well. But I think things went better than I had expected. We are almost ready to make a movie. As much as I like to just Produce, I am switching into AD mode for the shoot and this week is well the week before the shoot. So my mind is going everywhere trying to make sure I am confident about ever aspect of our two shooting days this weekend. I am very proud of this project and am lucky I get to be such a big part of it.

It is pretty crazy to jump in to straight between two shoots, knowing that swimming through only leads to a larger ocean of work and production. I drove past Caves on the way to one of the locations we were looking at today and I was remembering back when I would've gone for a beer on Memorial Day a few years ago. I would've sat at the bar during happy hour and talked about how I wanted to make movies. I'd talk about crazy ideas involving Werewolves or Aliens, but instead of making that happen I sat there on the barstool enjoying what I thought at the time was a deserved rest. Now I spend almost everyday working toward production or on a production of a friends. It has been a nonstop ride since AFI ended and I think I starting to get back into it. After Post Production on Sleet/Snow I was completely drained, I had directed and finished 8 films in 2008 (Sleet/Snow was the last), and that feeling I can now say is over.

That said there are also a ton of films I want to see this Summer and I have picked up at least one job to fund my getting to see them all so I can report about them here. In no particular order they are; Summer Hours, Lorna's Silence, World's Greatest Dad, Revenche, UP (which will be the first PIXAR film I will have ever seen in a theater), Paper Heart, and all the big uns (which I won't write about instead I will probably talk obsessively about to anyone in my close proximity... sorry in advance).

Also Lemon is moving towards a big step, will update soon. Also Coming soon is an Adrian Make Movie DVD, hopefully featuring all of the shorts made with Adrian Make Movie Productions... more on that soon as well, don't forget to come out and support our sister company Manamal Productions' 24hr Video Race film, which I co-wrote/directed, "Sweet Potatoes" this Tuesday 7pm at the Angelika Dallas.

UnderExposed 7 Wrap Up Blog!

Daniel here,

Adrian Make Movie Productions and their filmmakers sweep UnderExposed Awards. The awards were selected by a jury of three, Chris Simpson, Keith Alcorn, and Melissa Kirkendall, and so here's the results. UnderExposed is a film festival made by students to showcase the work made by students, all the films are selected by the same jury, and Adrian and I were on the committee to put on the show. I had nothing to do with the awards, but it sure was neat to get one. So here's the wins.

Best Cinematography (tie)
Noe Medrano Jr. for Gillface
Bret Curry for Sleet/Snow

Best Writing
Nathan James for Gillface

Best Narrative and Audience Favorite
Aaron Holloway for Big Hands

Best Directing
Daniel Laabs (ME!) for Sleet/Snow

and

Best in Show
David McGinnis for Gillface

Other films that screened at UnderExposed 7 from Adrian Make Movie were Noe Medrano Jr.'s Hurtgenwald and Jayson Mekala's The Moving Rows. Thanks to everyone who came out.

In other news, The Adrian Make Movie team er Myself and Adrian will be joining forces with our Big Handed friend, Aaron Holloway and Manamal Productions (which I proudly have been involved with for a year now) to enter the 24hr Video Race under the Futurevision Catagory. This is our second year doing the race our first year we took home first place for our film "Schadenfreude."



We will post live updates during the 24hr Race, via the manamal twitter.

Alright well that's it for news, more festival updates for "Sleet/Snow" coming soon!