Wow... Crazy times.

Just got off a shoot for a national broadcaster here in South Africa, a 19 day road shoot.. Not stop traveling. Was pretty cool. Always a good thing to get paid doing what you love whilst getting to see the world on someone elses dime.

Anyway, back in my studio now, working on a new short titled Angel of the Skies. The Teaser can be viewed here [link]

Still in very very very early pre prod.

I'm so lost right now. Not really sure what to do. So many questions that I ask myself with what to do next. So many potential projects waiting for me to get them made... yet I sit here staring blankly into my screen, wanting to RAM my head right through it cause the frustration of having to wait on other people is killing me. I have 4 films I want to get made, 5 if you count the documentary... I can start them tomorrow... but as I said.. waiting on other people is killing me. I wish I could just move forward but at this stage in my life, I am unable to do so...

So... anyone willing to sponsor a RED ONE camera to a struggling film maker... I am your man.

Check this space soon for more updates on Angels of the Skies...

Ya, thats right... I've been off DA for 2 years and finally I am back...

And a long road it has been, but I have some exciting news. My latest film has been very successful and I had the fortunate opportunity to go to Cannes in May and meet Mr. Steven Spielberg himself at the première for Indiana Jones.

Anyway, today's headlines are just to let you all know that we (H.O and I) are back from Cannes and man, what an experience. The film did well, with many professionals around the world surprised with how real and authentic the film was with such a small budget. Some of the other short films there were shot on budgets exceeding over a million rand. So I'm quite happy to say that we pulled AT THY CALL off with only R40 000 / $5000 - Please check out the trailers here.
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We've now made contact with some big players overseas and investors who are interested in co producing with South Africa. So... its back to the writing board for me to get my next script out there. I'm going to be updating the page soon with pictures from CANNES and VIDEOS... but for now, if any of you have facecrap... or facebook as they call it, take a look at the AT THY CALL @ CANNES FAN page that I have up for now. There are pictures there and vids. Check out the video with Quintin Tarrintino, that was really awesome.

Here is the link to the AT THY CALL @ CANNES PAGE
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PS. AT THY CALL has been accepted into the Durban International Film Festival and will be competing for best Short film. Its also been invited to the AFI film festival in LOS ANGELES... Wish us luck.

Chris

There is no reason for love. It just is. And when it's there, it endures, even when it shouldn't. Even when you try to make it go away. It's hard to make it die. I've learned it's also unnecessary - and unwise. It only lessens you for it. So I accept it. I lock it away, I let it stay. I don't deliberately kill love. I just don't act on it. - I disdain love...

Just a thought...

Almost a year since that unfaithful incident... God.

Well, on a positive note, life is getting along well. My film school won an acedemy award for best student picture this year, which is great, now my Degree has a fat little notice that reads, ACADEMY AWARD WINNING FILM SCHOOL.. lol..

Oh well... Shooting a 30 minute film next week, can't wait, busy going over some small issues to fix before principle photography begins... MAN I LOVE THIS JOB.

Hey all, I'm back... been real busy as of late.

My old man just got back from a business trip overseas... England and Italy, really cool. What was even cooler, was the fact that he came home with a new Macintosh Powerbook... WOOT. Now, in South Africa, this thing goes for around R30 000... Now thats a shit load of cash. But when my father saw this powerbook (which I am using to type this very message) for a mesely R17 000 - HE HAD TO GET IT.... so now, because things are always better to buy overseas, I have a new weapon in my arsenal... the Macintosh POWERBOOk... yay.

Beats my MiniMac any day,.... So yeah.

Just though I would let u guys now... not that your all too interested anyway. Well, keep ur chins up fellow bunnies and remember, MAC is the way to go if your into DIGITAL ART...

PS. - Magenta the Lion wishes he had a MAC, even though he refuses to admit it... LOL

A new year is here. With it comes endless possibilities, new hopes, new dreams and goals... new paths for us to follow, or ignore. We will make new friends, and lose some. We might discover the true meaning of love, or learn to hate. 365 days to make your life a living hell, or pure bliss. What ever it may be, 2006 is here.

I recently lost someone I truly cared for. She is now in a better place, and even though every day I wake up and struggle to get out of bed, I am moving on, slowly. I truly wish I could just stay here in my misery, in my dytopic atmoshpere that holds no future for me. I somehow wish I could maybe have changed things in the past, maybe she would still be here today, but what is done is done and 2006 is here. I can't live blaming myself.

All I can say is that she will remain in my heart for the rest of my life, no matter where I go, no matter what I do. Even if I learn to love another, she will always be my first, my one true love. And with that, I pick myself up, I move out of this dark garden of lost souls, this place that I have forced myself into. The torture I have indured is self inflicted, only because I feel guilty for not saying goodbye, for telling her I loved her, for stopping her. For this, I am bound to my grief, and it is here that my heart will remain, below the swinging branches of the willow tree of life. And like the sands of time, my soul will fade away, till the long hours of my life are utterly spent waiting for happiness.

Happy 2006 everyone. May we all learn to appreciate what we have before it is too late.