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NewsThe journal, some press coverage, and appearances are below. February 7, 2008: Time sure flies. Just thought I'd post an update. "Packrat" is still plugging away, and continually being added to more and more libraries of Colleges and Universities, Housing Organizations, and Professional Organizers, most recently Greater Lynn Senior Services and the University of North Texas. In fact I've made back more than 50% of what I spent to make the movie at this point, so that's excellent. As it was a labor of love and a kind of mission, I had accepted pretty early on the idea that it most likely wouldn't even come close to paying for itself. So I'm pretty happy with all aspects of the progress. In other news, Jessica Jennings (Cinematographer) recently completed directing and producing a doc called "Boy In The World," on the subject of inclusion, which is soon to be broadcast on public television and distributed by Fanlight. Congratulations Jessica! Editor Alyer Breau has relocated to Los Angeles and so have I! I'm now living in sunny Santa Monica, loving the weather and the cool opportunities that are coming my way out here. Onward and upward! August 26, 2006: OMG and how could I forget to put this up here? Jessica Jennings our illustrious cinematographer WON AN EMMY this year for her work on a production with John Lavall of Devlo Media! See article at ICOM Mag. It also looks like I never linked to the podcast interviews about Packrat... So check those out at filmmakerspod.com (they will be in the archives now but I am also a correspondent so I have some new material up there about my trip to Cannes with another movie, David M. Young's Hitchcocked). Illustrator Yvonne Mojica (she created the beautiful illustration artwork you see above this) has a pitch up on line for the New York TV Festival. Go vote for her at http://tv.msn.com/nytvf/contest so she can get a production deal for her fabulous comic which you can see at bathroomgirls.com. July 16, 2006: Great new developments!: WGBH
BROADCAST! PLYMOUTH FEST SCREENING! SUNY DOWNSTATE ! January 22, 2006: Correction: Packrat will be screening at the Dinner and a Movie series at The Captain Kidd (aargh) in Woods Hole on Saturday January 28, 2006. Reunited again with the very fabulous Other People's Pictures. Enjoy Woods Hole off season hotel rates and no traffic! Maybe it will be 60 degrees out again! Who needs the Caribbean? Your winter getaway is all set. January 10, 2006: You could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw how old the last post was. But I'll stop carrying on about that and maybe just post a little more often huh? Since the last post I got a very cool adjunct teaching job at the New England Institute of Art and I've been plenty busy with that plus losing my mind over a couple of other things. But back to Packrat related news. Packrat will be screening at the Dinner and a Movie series at The Captain Kidd (aargh) in Woods Hole on Saturday January 22, 2006. Reunited again with the very fabulous Other People's Pictures. Since last I posted, Packrat also aired on the show Independent Film Journal on WGBY in Western Massachusetts so that was awesome. Packrat also screened this past summer at a series related to the Indie Memphis Film Festival. So things have been happening even if I've been remiss in telling you about them. My husband said he thought I was not letting go of the movie in an unhealthy way. Some people like to try to freak me out by telling me I'm psychologically hoarding the movie in some way. But I say to them now, "Look at the state of this blog and tell me that." I don't even want to try to figure out a number for how long it's been since the last post. August 4, 2005: Only 8 months since my last report-time flies when you're having your fingernails pulled out. Just kidding. Actually my job came back, I only got into this movie stuff when the Internet bubble burst and I was an out of work Web Designer. The Internet industry seems to be coming back though, so I've been very busy with that. In other news, we had a screening at the Anxiety Disorders Association of America at their 2005 conference in Seattle. That was terrific-Packrat screened as part of a presentation by Dr. Fugen Neziroglu on compulsive hoarding. Check out her book: Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding: Why You Save and How You Can Stop. This past Monday Packrat screened at the Woods Hole Film Festival. I'll be going back down to the festival tonight and will do a podcast afterwards about my experience there, so will post a link to that then. Packrat screened with a film called "Other People's Pictures" by Lorca Sheppard and Cabot Philbrick which I loved. Check out the trailer. For a nice example of an 'other people's picture, check out this one in the most recent Walkers in the City article at goodie.org. More soon. December 4, 2004: OK, I might be over the trauma of the last screening enough to write. Maybe. Here's what's been going on past 2 months. I had a great time at the New Hampshire Film Expo . Really nice crowd. An exceptional thing about this crowd was that they laughed at everything we laughed at in the editing room. Meaning they laughed almost constantly. Usually people laugh maybe 20% of the time during the movie. So that was cool. After that came the Northampton Independent Film Festival . I was so flattered to be included with the excellent group that screened there, and Northampton is a really nice town. The exceptional thing that happened there was the Paranoid Schizophrenic that showed up to the screening and took over the Q&A. She started by saying she was a foremost expert on hoarding, then went on to how people were breaking into her house to mess with her stuff, then how they were following her around town, and finally how they were trying to kill her. Randy Frost was at the screening, and when he tried to answer a question she started screaming and carrying on. Did I mention the part where she was shooting the screen during the movie with her finger gun? Finally I got her to walk out with me while Dr. Frost continued to take questions. Every three feet she would stop and yell at the audience "You're looking at a dead woman!" To which I replied in my so lame fashion, "You can't take up the whole Q & A, other people have questions." It was dysfunctionality at it's finest, all around. I left her at the door and went back in after someone called the police and she started in about how people were masturbating in her stuff. She did get away, and successfully shot me with her finger gun while I walked past her to get some lunch with some family friends. The lasting souvenir is I broke a tooth at some pooint during the whole fiasco (presumably from clenching and grinding at her) and now I have to get a crown. October
6,
2004: More great news! Packrat will screen in competition at the New
Hampshire Film Expo at 9pm Friday October 15 at the Sheraton
Amphitheater (we could win a Granny!).
There's also a trade show at the Film Expo which I really like. You
can
get a ticket for a whole block of screenings for $12 easy as pie at
http://www.nhfx.com/2004/tix.html Packrat
will also be screened at the
Northampton Independent
Film Festival at 12pm Friday October 29 at
the Academy
of Music Theater. Tickets
are available through ticketweb,
accessible from http://www.niff.org/schedule.html p.s. The screening in New York was great, in particular because we were joined by the authors of a great new book, Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding, by Drs. Fugen Neziroglu, Jerome Bubrick, and Jose Yaryura-Tobias. Best of all, the doctors were able to attend and participate in a discussion following the screening, and Dr. Bubrick especially took the hot seat and answered a lot of the more clinical questions people had. My great thanks to them! September 17, 2004: The NYC Premiere will be at The Bowery Poetry Club, Thursday September 23, 5:30-6:30pm. Ohmigosh and Packrat has been selected for the Northampton Independent Film Festival which will happen October 27-31, 2004!! September 2, 2004: The screening at the Library was just great. We had a nice turnout and a great Q&A. We were mentioned in Gerald Peary's Film Culture column in the Boston Phoenix and I'm so jazzed about that. We've also had a couple of mentions in Imagine News. There was a scout from the Northhampton Film Festival (where I might add one of our experts Dr. Randy Frost works at Smith College) who liked the movie. So happy. August 13, 2004: Come on down for the ladies! Packrat will be screened at the Boston Public Library on August 28 as part of the Women in Film and Video New England Summer Fest Screening. Here's the info: A screening of several works by WIFV/NE members Saturday, August 28, beginning at 1pm Join us at the Boston Public Library's Rabb Lecture Hall for a screening of films and videos by WIFV/NE members. The screening is free and open to the public. The schedule will include: 1pm GREETINGS FROM IRAQ by Signe Taylor, 28 minutes INSIDE HER ART by Erin Dalbec, 27 minutes 2pm WHEN GIVEN LEMONS... by Naomi Greenfield, 8 minutes PACKRAT by Kris Britt Montag, 52 minutes 3pm DENTAL FARMER by Ellen Brodsky, 15 minutes HIGH, FAST AND WONDERFUL by Maryanne Galvin, 43 minutes June 8, 2004: Oh happy day! We now have a distributor. Actually it's been about two weeks now but I've been too busy getting deliverables together to report it here. Packrat will be distributed to the world educational and nontheatrical markets by Fanlight Productions. The Fanlight page for our movie is here. I have joyfully removed the festival status from this page because Fanlight will be taking over whatever's left to be done on that. We should begin to have screenings soon so email me if you want to get the newsletter-put Packrat Newsletter in the subject line. Also congratulations to Alyer Breau, our editor, who has taken over the position of Post Production Supervisor for the prestigious International Film & Television Workshops in Rockport, ME. In other news, Associate Producer/Camera Operator Jorge Leite has moved to Rio, one block from Ipanema Beach. Associate Producer/Sound Recordist Eric King just had a video screening at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge, and Sound Supervisor Brian Knoth is now adjunct faculty at Emerson College. Plenty of good news! I love it! April 26, 2004: Congratulations to our cinematographer, Jessica Jennings, on her EMMY nomination! See the EMMY-nominated project here. April 17, 2004: The message board is now up. I continue to get wonderful letters from people who have been inspired by the movie, or even by just hearing about it. We are nearing the end of our festival run and I am planning to try to get the movie into the IFP New York film market for September. April 6, 2004: Pages with appearances are now up. March 28, 2004: What a good week. The Film Threat review came out last Tuesday, and so did the Beacon Hill Times article. I also received a couple of very nice letters. I'm a happy girl. March 17, 2004: The wrap party/screening came off. Of course I got that call the projector was broken on 5:30pm Friday and had to throw myself at the mercy of a local rental house who charged me about 5 times what I was originally paying as opposed to the other guy who also would also have acted as technician. Fortunately some of the lovely party attendees took care of troubleshooting setup problems (I am in your debt), and the only thing that I didn't think to do was spot check the projector settings so the contrast/brightness could have been improved a lot. Otherwise it was a pretty good time. We screened from a mockup DVD mastered and duplicated for the crew by Modulus DVD, who were guardian angels, and I thank them. February 10, 2004: Sundance and Slamdance were awesome, although I'm sure I didn't work it like a hooker as I probably should have. Did catch up with some people I like, and got some snowboarding in. What a racket, I'm so sick of doing all this work, can we please just get into a festival already and enjoy life for a minute? We're working on the postcards now, the press release and the party planning. I am now adopting the shotgun approach to festival entry. January 14, 2004: The wrap party is scheduled for end of February at the Beacon Hill Firehouse, how cool is that? January 13, 2004: The DVD is finished and we're looking into how to make a bunch of copies on the cheap. The bios are in progress. I am sending the movie to Film Threat to ask them to review it. I am trying to schedule the wrap party before I leave for Sundance on Thursday. The movie did not get in, I was overconfident, but I'm still going. This is my year, film career or bust so why not. January 6, 2004: I have lost my mind and redesigned the web site, I think for better. We are currently working on finishing the sample DVD and the bios for the web site. See the trailer, production stills, one-sheet, on the new Press Kit page, and our sundance, slamdance and cinequest rejection letters below. December 4, 2003: We are currently working on finishing the DVD, the trailer, the behind the scenes cut and the web site. Festival notifications begin in December. Press Coverage:
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