Starbucks and Official Best of Fest will be sponsoring a screening of Full Disclosure and two other great films tonight at Seattle’s Roy Street Coffee (one of the Stealth Starbucks stores) at 8PM.  Not only can you watch some great films from OBOF, but you can also order a beer or wine in a Starbucks like you’re in Europe or something.  To top it off, I’ll be doing a little Q&A about the film.

Roy Street Coffee Co.  700 Broadway East (Broadway and Harvard on Capitol Hill), Seattle.

Official Best of Fest screening of Full Disclosure at Roy Street Coffee Co. 3/31/2010 8PM

Fantasy casting is a reality for almost any filmmaking.

I’ve never really understood the allure of fantasy football or baseball.  I think my friends who speak with great passion about “their” players, trades, stats, are a teensy bit bat-shit.  But that’s just me.  I’m luke warm about sports unless I’m either playing them or watching them right at that second.  However, the world of film has its own version of fantasy football: Casting. (continue reading…)

Want to watch Full Disclosure for free? Someone's pirating it on YouTube...if you can stand the quality.

I’m very interested in the future of in online distribution for independent films, so I’m trying a quick experiment. (This experiment isn’t pure science.  It has the potential benefit of clearing out a box of DVDs under my desk.  But mostly, it’s science.)

The other day I found a pirated version of Full Disclosure on YouTube.  It’s a really bad version shot with a camcorder off Italian television.  The sound is horrible, as is the image, (on the plus side, however, there are Italian subtitles!).  YouTube has a procedure for removing pirated content, but it’s arduous and I don’t have the time at the moment.  Besides, it’s the free availability of this pirated version that makes the experiment possible.  So for the moment, I’m going to leave it there.

There’s this theory going around that people pirate what they like but can’t buy when, how, or in the format they wish to.  Mostly, this theory comes from people trying to justify their illegal downloading of content, but it also comes from some really smart folks who think a lot about all things digital, like my friend Fred Chong Rutherford.  Personally, I have my doubts about this, theory, but hell, the only thing I know for sure is that I don’t know everything.  So I’m going to try an experiment. (continue reading…)

People are talking about Full Disclosure.

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In putting up the Full Disclosure preview the other day, I was looking up links and discovered a couple interesting things.  First, someone has uploaded a pirated version onto YouTube.  So if anyone wants to watch the complete short film with horrible sound and picture and Italian subtitles, just go to YouTube.

The other, nicer thing is that a couple people wrote some very nice reviews about Full Disclosure as part of the new Official Best of Fest Sampler DVD collection that came out in December.  Full Disclosure was made years ago and didn’t get a lot of reviews at the time (no one reviews short films, it seems).  There are a few reviews floating around out there, but I’m not going to go dig them up.  But these reviews came out a little over a month ago, so I figured they’re fair game to post. (continue reading…)

Here’s the opening part of Full Disclosure. About a third of the film really. If you like it, the short is available for $1.99 from the iTunes Store or $8.95 on DVD on this site’s Store Page. You can also find some DVD collections that include Full Disclosure.