SCREENING on Thursday, Jan 26 in Arlington Cafe (Kensington)

We'll have a screening of Domino:  Caught in the Crisis this coming Thursday at 6:30 pm in the Arlington Cafe (269 Arlington Ave., Kensington).  If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, come on down.  The event is free and open to the public.

The Arlington Cafe is a relaxed place, a good place to watch a dramatic narrative film, a work-in-progress like Domino.  It serves food, from sandwiches to quiche to salads, as well as drinks, from coffee to soda, beer and wine.  LINK  And if you've ever wanted to help shape a film, this is a good time to start..  The filmmaker (yours truly, Eve A. Ma) listens to comments and takes them very seriously.

Shooting the opening scene with the domino players.

 This screening is being presented by MAW (Media Art Works) as part of its monthly program, EBMMSC (East Bay Media Makers' Screening Club).  Other films we have in the works are by filmmakers George Larkin and Eve Edelson.

George Larkin is one of those people who, well, can't make it to the screening this Thursday because he'll be in Sundance, receiving a prize.  You see the kind of company that MAW keeps.  He'll be screening a short taken from his larger work about Iraq called Speaking of Baghdad.

Some of the MAW board members & staff with some of the filmmakers.

 Eve Edelson's short is called The Fare, and is about a strange set of circumstances that arise when her hero, a cab driver, picks up some pretty unusual fares.  Another one of \the films that MAW will present as part of this same screening program is by Luisa de Cossy.  It's about the Travelers, a group of formerly nomadic  people of Irish descent who wander (or used to wander) all over England.

But back to Domino.  Three days after the screening, I'll be returning to Spain where I plan to do a TINY bit more filming to fill in a spot in Domino that I find a bit thin.  Then, I'll commission the background music, get some technicians to make everything beautiful and lovely to listen to as well...after which, probably some time this summer, I'll be ready to release it.

The Arlington Cafe.

I plan to release it in Spain first, but will at least have a screening of the completed work when I'm back in California this summer.  Then, on to the festivals, right?

OUR NEXT BLOG will be ... that long-awaited final article about private greed.

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