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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 27, 2008

Grande Enchilada: Auteure

Greetings from Mexico City, darlings, where I am shepherding my little short at the 6th International Jewish Film Festival. It is great to see the audience’s reaction, which is very different than in the States. There, people laugh out loud, whereas here they just titter. Mr…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 28, 2008

Short Order

Darlings:
I’m just back from my very first film festival, the reputable Palm Springs Short Fest, where our short Close Relations premiered for the first time in America. I was happy to see my short perform very well, and I was ecstatic to show it in front of an audience comprised of filmgoers and…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 22, 2008

In The Desert You Can’t Remember Your Name…

Today, for instance, I was so happy to take a swim right outside my door early in the morning, that I locked myself out of my room. Apparently, it happens with some frequency in the rarefied desert air. However, since it is so darn hot, it was quite…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 22, 2008

In the Desert

Greetings from Palm Springs, California, where we are attending the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival with our film Close Relations. It’s big, well organized and cool.
I love the desert. It is beautiful. My ugly ass rented car feels like a sauna only a Russian could love.
It seems that at…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 8, 2008

Short film = toddler

Making a short film is like having a toddler. Once he’s out of the womb, it’s a full time job to keep the creature alive and in festivals. It is also as expensive, almost.
This is mainly the reason why I haven’t been able to write this week.
I’m happy to report that our humble short Close…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

May 5, 2008

Time to Brag

It has been rejected by a lot of festivals here in the US, for reasons that are truly mysterious to me, but my short film Close Relations has been accepted at the Swansea Life Film Festival, in Wales, and it is in the Best Short competition.
I’ve always liked the Welsh. They gave us, among other…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Sep 20, 2007

But what I really want to do is direct

The reason, darlings, why you have not heard from me lately, is I was ensconced in a grueling, week long, independent film conference from IFP and I just couldn’t blog. I was busy listening to “industry” people offering all kinds of contradictory advice to the…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 9, 2007

Editing DIY

Dear dears: I’m editing my short movie myself. At the beginning I was totally panicked because me and technology are in shaky terms, like two clumsy dance partners who keep stepping in each other’s toes. But after three days pushing cursors and cutting footage, I am loving it, even though I get into major…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Aug 4, 2007

There Is A Rough Cut!

You must have thought I had forgotten all about the little short I shot. Pas du tout, as we say in French.
I just went to Paris for a month and left it in the hands of an editor, who worked on it while I was away.
As you can imagine, the suspense was killing me, but I finally saw the first…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jun 17, 2007

The Death of Film

Yesterday I attended a talk about Apple’s Studio 2, or whatever it’s called, which is the new bundled program that includes Final Cut Pro and a bunch of other things. I’m trying to learn the technical aspects of the craft, you see, so I don’t stand like a moron in the middle of my next shoot…