June 2008
Your Political Friend (my political blog) returns to help California voters make sense of the Goddamn ballot.
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April 2008
I am interviewed on WELH radio in Providence, RI to talk about film making and stuff.
Click HERE for a link to the podcast.
March 2008
I performed in the Los Angeles Mortified show, screening my Maniac films along with the infamous 2nd grade book report.
Having grown up in LA, the whole evening had a "prodigal son returns" feeling.
Febuary 2008
My grandmother, Marge Oberman, passed away at 87. She was the most wonderful woman and friend. There is a hole in my heart.
January 2008
Your Political Friend (my political blog) returns to help California voters make sense of the Goddamn ballot.
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December 2007
Loom wins Best Animated Film at the Miami Short Film Festival.
As of 2008, I will try to stop talking about Loom.
November 2007
My rambling interview appears in Short End Magazine. As Horace said, "In laboring to be concise I become obscure".
October 2007
I introduced my early horror films, Maniac and Maniac 2, in the San Francisco Halloween show of Mortified.
The audience agrees: I peaked at 11.
September 2007
Loom wins Best Animated Film in its online premier at Ourstage.com
June 2007
My grandfather, Gus Oberman, passed away at 89. He was the patriarch of the family and the only grandfather I ever knew.
I will miss him.
April 2007
Loom wins BEST ANIMATED FILM at the Crossroads Film Festival.
Also, Magic Trick is licensed to appear in the movie Mad Money, starring Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Queen Latifa. It's shooting now in Louisiana.
March 2007
I'm still writing the script on my next film. In the meantime Loom was accepted by the San Francisco Int'l Film Fest, Milan Int'l Film Fest, Cleveland Int'l Film Fest, Cinequest, Crossroads Film Fest, Indianapolis Film Fest, Martha's Vineyard Independent Film Fest, Mendocino Film Fest, Arizona Int'l Film Fest, Philadelphia Film Fest, AnimaBasauri, Tribeca Underground Film Fest, and SXSW.
January 2007
I attend my first Sundance/Slamdance festival, which was incredibly inspiring. Click on the right for some of my pics.
December 2006
Loom is accepted into the Slamdance Film Festival. This festival is the scrappier, more independent part of Sundance. I just hope I get into some of the lavish, less independent parties. I'm an ANIMATOR, dammit!
November 2006
Loom screens at the Cinanima Festival in Espinho, Portugal, as well as the Leipzig Festival in Germany. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend either one.
October 2006
Your Political Friend (my political blog) returns to help California voters make sense of the Goddamn ballot.
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August 2006
Loom screens at the Hiroshima Animation Festival. I use up the last five of my fifteen minutes of fame.
Click HERE for more Japan pics.
June 2006
Looms screens at the Atlanta Film Festival. During the "Q and A" I make some inflammatory remarks about Cartoon Network, forgetting that Atlanta is their HQ and most of the audience works there.
I get run out of town.
May 2006
Ann takes third bath in as many weeks.
I register her on Dogster, but all the other dogs there are so, like, way beneath her.
February 2006
Loom is finished after four years of production. I break out the miniature champagne bottles.
The good stuff.