project film school

Shooting People 2/6/07
dir. meerkatmedia and friends

jay is part of an awesome media collective that screened a short at this event: this is jay's recollection of the evening:

We (meerkatmedia) were invited to show Wee Dark Hours at a screening hosted by Shooting People last week at the pioneer theater. When we got there we were greeted with an incredible meerkat puppet (as seen in the photos) that Jesse and Ingrid picked up whilst at Sundance the previous week. I also got to see some other filmmaker friends like Keir and Landon and meet Agnes Varnum, a woman with a fantastic blog about the independent documentary scene in New York.

Just moments after arrival, the projectionist working that night came out and told us that our mini DV master tape unspooled in their deck and since it was their only mini DV deck and they didn’t want to take any chances, they were unwilling to try our tape again. So they said they COULD NOT show the film! This all happened as everyone was filtering into the packed theater. A bunch of us kats and friends were there so this was a touch disappointing. Just when hope seemed to be lost for the meerkats, the internet future came to the rescue. Since we put high quality copies of everything on our website we were able to borrow someones laptop, track down a blank DVD, download a fresh copy of the movie from our site and burn a DVD with time still watch most of the other short films. They ended up screening ours last so Lex’s lullaby (the soundtrack to the piece) was stuck in everyones heads for the rest of the beer and pizza that followed.

Our love affair with Shooting People continues to this day–they just highlighted “Wee Dark Hours” as the featured short film on the front of their myspace page!