Ignore me.

Since I'm usually way too disorganized, I think I'm going to start using my blog to keep random notes (like my pal Andrew). So feel free to ignore. Or not, if it happens to be a note you are interested in.

Analog-to-Firewire video converter (I need to get one of these so I can give John's back to him)

Make your own iPhone games (looks pretty buggy so far)

Hollywood.

INTERPLANETARY screens at the Hollywood ArcLight in 7 hours...

New Hide page.

In honor of the new Hide and Creep Special Edition DVD (in stores now!), I put together a new home page for the Hide website.


Thanks to Kevin Powell for hooking me up with the fonts and awesome background texture.

Award!

In case you haven't heard, Interplanetary won the audience choice award for best Alabama film at Sidewalk 2009! And Chris Hilleke (one of the cinematographers on Interplanetary) won the audience choice award for best short film! Here's a photo of our actual award, which is a big honkin' metal statue...


As you might guess based on the award, the Sidewalk Interplanetary screening went really well. We had big, receptive audience and a lively Q & A post-screening.

Thanks to the audience, the Sidewalk staff, and, especially, all the folks who worked together to make Interplanetary.

More interview action.

Excellent interview with me just posted over at ARKirby.com:

http://www.arkirby.com/Home/RandomThoughts/tabid/280/www.arkirby.com/Home/RandomThoughts/ChanceShirley/tabid/461/Default.aspx

Thanks, Richard!

Weekly coverage.

My old pal Kenn McCracken interviewed me for the Birmingham Weekly newspaper.

You can read the online version of the interview here.

The most wonderful time of the year.

I've been busy this week, trying to get ready for this weekend's Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. The upcoming fest is Sidewalk's 11th. At this point, it's my second favorite annual event (as a child at heart, Christmas is still #1). Sidewalk brings films, filmmakers, and fans together to watch movies, talk movies, and drink beer. And it brings them together in Northside Birmingham, a cool part of the city that is, sadly, under-utilized for much of the year.


Sidewalk #11 is extra special for me, as I'll have a film (Interplanetary, which you might be familiar with) in the fest for the first time in five years. It's been too long!

I hope you'll check out the festival, and I especially hope you'll attend the Interplanetary screening on Sunday, 4:15 p.m. at the Carver Theatre. You can get ticket information here.

A few links to hopefully get you in the mood for Sidewalk...

Sidewalk's Interplanetary page

Interplanetary Facebook page - Be a fan!

Interview with me on Fox 6. (Warning: I am a pretty awful TV interviewee.)

Interview with Lisa Mason at Birmingham's Eagle. (Down at the bottom, in the "Lisa's Links" section.)

Interview and review at Examiner.com.

I also have heard that there might be some Interplanetary coverage in this week's Birmingham Weekly newspaper, so keep an eye out for that.

And here's a picture of Kyle "Jackson" Holman from Interplanetary...