"Lovely Coffee" wins 2 awards at 2010 Accolade Film Competition

"Lovely Coffee" wins 2 Awards at 2010 Accolade Film Competition: Award of Merit for Best Short Film and Award of Merit for Best Director Warren Pereira.

WHO'S GOOD LOOKING? International Premiere at BAHAMAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Dec 2009

WHO'S GOOD LOOKING? makes its International Premiere at the BAHAMAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Dec 10-17 2009.

This festival is projecting 35mm so I can get some value out the 35mm Film Out I did for "Who's Good Looking?" and I love how film projection looks; like it even more than 4K DCP projection.

Festival Schedule will be updated on their website in Nov: http://www.bintlfilmfest.com/

"Superhero Talent" wins 2 Awards at Indie Fest

"Superhero Talent" wins 2 Awards at Fall 2009 Indie Fest Competition: Award of Merit for Best Lead Actor for Warren Pereira who plays "Cutro" and Award of Merit for Best Humor in a Short Film.

WHO'S GOOD LOOKING? Official Selection at 2009 Eugene International Film Festival Oct. 9th, 11PM

WHO'S GOOD LOOKING? is an Official Selection at the 2009 Eugene International Film Festival. It opens for the feature 3 DAYS BLIND which is nice and it looks like they will allow me to project 35mm which is also nice.

Here is the way the festival describes the film: "“Who's Good Looking?”For Robert Altman fans that can’t resist his style of single-take, over-lapping dialogue, this fun short, made in Portland, is right up your alley. As a couple winds their way through a skin care boutique, sarcastic dialogue on notions of beauty expose their narcissism. A clever relationship comedy."

“Who’s Good Looking” will be shown at 11:00 PM, Friday, October 9, Theater 13, Regal Cinemas; Eugene, OR.

http://daricedesigns.com/Clients/eiff/2009/10.9.9-showtimes.html

LACKING LEWIS wins 2 Awards at Accolade Film Competition

LACKING LEWIS wins Award of Merit for Best Short Film and Award of Merit for Creativity and Originality at The Accolade Competition, La Jolla, CA. October 2009. The Accolade Competition is MovieMaker magazine's Top 25 Film Competitions/Festivals worth the entry fee.

LACKING LEWIS is my first film and I had the film re-mastered and enhanced this year at Mission Control and Todd-AO so getting these awards makes the extra work feel even more worth it.
http://accoladecompetition.org/

SALT AND SILICONE New EFILM Color Pass done

So I QC'd the new color pass again at EFILM. Colorist felt that there was no need to go to DI and increase exposure on faces of "Vex" and "Keira" INT. CAR for creative and technical reasons. Watching the film again with him I started to agree. I approved the DAVINCI 2K pass which will be layed out to HDCAMSR + 1 Dub. They have to punch in new credits and slate and my deliverables should be ready in 24hrs

Back to Portland this weekend. I can sit with pass for at least a month, project the HDCAMSR at Mission Control, print a Tiff sequence and generate downconverts, and make sure I love the new color pass on an extended basis. Then I can come back to EFILM in Nov/Dec feeling confident to Film Out to 35mm.

Revisiting SALT AND SILICONE Color Grading with EFILM in DAVINCI 2K and DIGITAL INTERMEDIATE

I am revisiting the color grading in "Salt and Silicone" before I consider this project done. My desire for a particular "look" has become more serious, complex, and thankfully more articulate in the past few months.

Specifically, I have learned more about color grading and want to try some linear to logarithmic gamma shifts (to create that "cinema" look) and red abatement in the pass, complicate the color palette and make sure it is FILM OUT ready, still have disparate looks for "Vex's" disparate perspectives all while maintaining naturalistic skin tones and work in an uncompressed environment with a post-house that specializes in this process with proprietary techniques, software and hardware: enter Academy Award Winning Color Correction post-house EFILM who I have a pre-established relationship with.

Friday, Sept 25, 2009: EFILM Davinci Colorist Brian George set up my PreColor HDCAMSR Master on an EFILM tricked out DAVINCI 2K and in a few short hours wowed me with his color correction skills, aesthetic and rapidity. He is a technician and an artist and we had some stimulating back and forth as he educated me on why he was making the shifts in color he was making. DI Producer Hal Cohen of EFILM and SALT AND SILICONE Film Editor Shane Sattler who sat in on the session were similarly impressed. Frankly I did not fully agree with Brian's approach in the beginning but soon realized that his eye for color and clearly his experience are at a level that I had to step up to and appreciate which I did. By the end of the session I was more than sold, I was impressed.

EFILM has given the film a complex, cinematic "look", gorgeous skin tones, and still satisfied my need to separate each "episode" to show "Vex's" conflict over breast implants. He stayed away from washing the frame with one strong color for disparation in color grade from episode to episode but rather used color relationships to generate a distinct, strong, complex look for each episode. He focused more on a mood change through color rather than a virtual location change in color -- we are in the same lighting store but we are here in a different mood as per "Vex". I could say more but seeing the new color pass is the best experience which audiences will see when SALT AND SILICONE festivals in 2010.

The only area that I am still not fully satisfied with is some underexposed portions of the INT. CAR scenes -- specifically characters "Vex" (myself--Warren Pereira) and "Keira" (Katie O' Grady) are underexposed in camera. Any global raising in exposure on the DAVINCI even with vignette Power Windows shows a video noise that must be avoided. So, this will be dealt with in EFILM'S DI (DIGITAL INTERMEDIATE) proprietary Suite next week where we can Rotoscope my face and Katie's face and bring up exposure as needed.

First time people have to pay a commercial theater to see my tiny film "Who's Good Looking?" Laemmle Sunset 5, Los Angeles

First time people have to pay a commercial theater to see my tiny film "Who's Good Looking?" Laemmle Sunset 5, Los Angeles.

"Who's Good Looking?" Limited Los Angeles Theatrical Release at Laemmle Sunset 5 Sept 11th, 12th, 13th

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Writer/Director Warren Pereira’s award-winning short film “Who’s Good Looking?” (7 min.) will have a limited three day theatrical release at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre (8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90046). The film will screen off a 35 mm print twice a day on September 11^th, 12^th and 13^th at 1:15pm and 1:25pm. This limited theatrical release will be the official Best Short Film Academy Award Qualifying Run for “Who’s Good Looking?”

“Who’s Good Looking?” is a clever relationship comedy that exposes aesthetic obsession: Narcous (Warren Pereira) questions his fiancé’s (Katie O’ Grady) notions of beauty. A sarcastic simmer boils over as the couple storms through a skincare boutique. The film is shot in a single take.

Portland reviewer Dylan de Thomas commented that Pereira’s films are “…known for being witty and urbane, a mix between the dialogue of Woody Allen’s 70’s relationship comedies with the slinky camera work and exacting blocking of a Brian De Palma or Paul Thomas Anderson.”

“Who’s Good Looking?” screened as a work-in-progress at the Santa Monica Vine Short Film Festival in November 2007. Based on the work-in-progress screenings, adjustments were made to the film and it was officially completed in January 2008. Since then, “Who’s Good Looking?” has been an official selection at numerous top-tier film festivals including the Portland International Film Festival, Beverly Hills International Film Festival, LA International Short Film Festival, Miami International Short Film Festival, Method Fest, Atlanta Film Festival and Malibu International Film Festival. “Who’s Good Looking?” received the Accolade Competition Award of Merit in 2009.

“Who’s Good Looking?” is written, directed and produced by Warren Pereira. Director of Photography is Emmy Award winner Jeff Streich; Editor and Sound Designer is Shane Sattler; Re-Recording Mixer is Aaron Levy of Academy Award winning audio post house Todd-AO; Original Score by Daniel Reynolds. HD Postproduction by post-houses Mission Control and Downstream. 35mm Film Out by Academy Award winning film laboratory EFILM. Starring Warren Pereira, Katie O’ Grady, Greg Skelton, Haley Talbot and Payam Karamooz. Official Website: www.wfilms.biz.

"Who's Good Looking?" Official Selection at 2009 NEWFILMMAKERS NY September 2, 7pm.

http://newfilmmakers.com/NewFilmmakers%20Schedule%200907.htm

"Who's Good Looking?" to screen at Bagdad Theater Tuesday, August 18, 2009

"Who's Good Looking?" to screen at Bagdad Theater Tuesday, August 18, 2009 as part of the NW FILMMAKERS DEBUT NIGHT. Show starts at 6pm.

http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=9&id=177&eventid=73838

Prepping "Who's Good Looking?" audio for 35mm Film Out (2)

Mixer Aaron Levy and myself re-listen to "Who's Good Looking?" audio at the new Feature Stage at TODD-AO Burbank. "Who's Good Looking?" will be printed to 35mm next week and this warranted another listen to the sound design before the files are handed over to Dolby to make the MO. Love this stage. Image 2 attached.

Prepping "Who's Good Looking?" Audio for 35mm Print (1)

Mixer Aaron Levy and myself re-listen to "Who's Good Looking?" audio at the new Feature Stage at TODD-AO Burbank. "Who's Good Looking?" will be printed to 35mm next week and this warranted another listen to the sound design before the files are handed over to Dolby to make the MO. Love this stage. Image 1 attached.

"Who's Good Looking?" Official Selection at Malibu International Film Festival August 6,7,8, 2009

"Who's Good Looking?" Official Selection at Malibu International Film Festival August 6th, 7th, 8th, 2009.

http://www.malibufilmfestival.com/public/festival/official_selections.php

Pereira at Malibu Film Fest Closing Ceremony

Pereira Image from Malibu Film Fest Closing Ceremony. "Who's Good Looking?" screened at this 2009 Malibu Fest at the Ocean Avenue Screening room.

"Who's Good Looking?" invited to screen at 2009 West Hollywood International Film Festival

"Who's Good Looking?" invited to screen at West Hollywood International Film Festival August 5th-8th 2009.
http://www.whiff2008.com/index.html

1190 KEX Radio Interview for "Salt and Silicone", "Who's Good Looking?"

1190 KEX Radio Interview for "Salt and Silicone", "Who's Good Looking?". Listen here:

"Who's Good Looking?" invited to screen at Sacramento Film & Music Festival July 26th, 8pm.

"Who's Good Looking?" invited to screen at Sacramento Film & Music Festival July 26th, 8pm.

http://sacfilmandmusic.bside.com/2009/films/whosgoodlooking_sacfilmandmusic2009

"Who's Good Looking?" wins Award of Merit at The Accolade Competition, La Jolla, CA

"Who's Good Looking?" wins Award of Merit for Best Short Film at The Accolade Competition, La Jolla, CA.
http://accoladecompetition.org/

"Salt and Silicone" Premiere (work-in-progress) Screening this Thursday, 7pm!

"Salt and Silicone" 35mm Premiere Screening this Thursday, April 9, 7pm, at Hollywood Theater in Portland, OR. Officially this April 9, 2009 screening will be considered a work-in-progress screening. Changes to the film will be made based on audience reaction. The official festival run for "Salt and Silicone' will begin in 2010.

"Who's Good Looking?" Official Selection at 2009 Atlanta Film Festival (Academy Award Qualifier Film Festival)

"Who's Good Looking?" is an Official Selection at the Atlanta Film Festival. This is an Academy Award Qualifier Film Festival. Big festival, nice to be part of it, projecting the best SD projection -- Digibeta; not bad, I have always liked Digibeta even though it is SD. We screen April 22 at 9:20pm.

Website: http://atlantafilmfestival.com/index.php

"Lovely Coffee" Official Selection at 2009 Beverly Hills Film Festival

"Lovely Coffee" will screen at 9:20pm, April 2 at the 2009 Beverly Hills Film Festival. Had a good experience with this festival last year for "Who's Good Looking?" so I look forward to this year. The only negative is that projection options are DV-CAM and 35mm. So I have to show DV-CAM since I do not have 35mm for "Lovely Coffee". Hopefully I will get in next year and show a 35mm "Salt and Silicone" print.

www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com

"Who's Good Looking?" Official Selection at The 2009 Method Fest

"Who's Good Looking?" to screen at The Method Fest 2009
5pm, March 28th, Saturday
Regency Agoura Hills 8
29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Auditorium 5 (218 seats)

Final Post-Production on the past 4 short films complete!

As of January 2009, my past 4 short films have been mastered and re-mastered to the highest professional standards. Specifically all are now at 1080p, have 5.1 Dolby Digital audio and are archived on HDCAM SR tape.

In essence additional post-production audio and video were completed on "Lacking Lewis", "Who's Good Looking?", "Superhero Talent", and "Lovely Coffee"; now finally, in January 2009, I can say that all work on these films is done.

"Salt and Silicone" will undergo further post-production tweaks based on my upcoming work with Deluxe and Efilm, the reaction of April 9, 2009 "work-in-progress" screening, and based on what is best for its 2010 festival run.

Mixed Audio to "Salt and Silicone" 35mm print at Todd-AO Stage 2

"Salt and Silicone" was print mastered at Todd-AO Burbank in May 2008 but when the decision to do a film-out with Dolby Digital theatrical audio was made I had to have the audio remixed/Dolby certified for the film-out at Todd-AO Hollywood. We re-mixed the audio for "Salt and Silicone" today (Dec 29, 2008) at Todd-AO Hollywood Stage 2 (very nice stage by the way, must mix here again) with mixer Aaron Levy and Dolby Tech Bryan Arenas. We mixed to a 35mm MOS in the tradition of mixing major motion pictures to a film print as opposed to mixing to an MOV or digital tape. Technically this should have the best sync to the 35mm answer prints which I will be reviewing at Deluxe next week. Both Dolby Digital and Analog Dolby SR tracks sound nice and full. I was a little concerned with the PQ of the 35mm MOS print (little dark and slightly cloudy) but this could simply be because we are looking at an MOS work print instead of an answer print, and because we are projecting from a dubbing projector, not a screening projector. I dropped the Magneto Optical disc to Hal Cohen at Efilm, he let me know that they will shoot the audio on to film on Monday. Hal I and both talked about "Slumdog Millionaire", we both think it is superior to all films out this year.

"Lovely Coffee" Official Selection at 2009 NW Film & Video Festival

"Lovely Coffee" Official Selection NW Film & Video Festival. Screens tonight Nov 12 at 08:45pm.
http://www.nwfilm.org/archives/NWf&V/35nwfest/

"Who's Good Looking?" Official Selection at 2008 LA Shorts Fest (Academy Award Qualifying Festival)

"Who's Good Looking?" Official Selection at 2008 LA Shorts Fest (Academy Award Qualifying Festival). The LA Shorts Fest is accredited by the Academy Awards. Winning here means "Who's Good Looking?" will be short listed for the academy award short film nominations.
Festival is in August 2008: http://lashortsfest.com/2008/content.asp

SEATTLE TIMES gives my film SALT AND SILICONE some early press:

The Seattle Times' Tyrone Beason interviewed me over the phone about SALT AND SILICONE and then sent their photographer over to our set. The article is out today and I am very pleased to be included with the likes of  Gus Van Sant and Todd Haynes in this very fine write up about film in the Pacific NW.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2004431643_pacificportlandfilm25.html

"Who's Good Looking?" and "Superhero Talent" Official Selections at 2008 Salem Film Festival

"Who's Good Looking?" and "Superhero Talent" Official Selections at 2008 Salem Film Festival; April 2008.
http://www.salemfilmfestival.com/2008/films/shorts/nwemergingartist.html

"Who's Good Looking" Official Selection at 2008 Beverly Hills Film Festival

"Who's Good Looking" Official Selection Beverly Hills Film Festival -- April 10, 2008.

See link for press release: http://billboard.prweb.com/releases/festival/pereira/prweb836964.htm

"Who's Good Looking?" Official Selection at 2008 Portland International Film Festival

"Who's Good Looking?" Official Selection at Portland International Film Festival February 2008:

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS161721+07-Feb-2008+BW20080207

"Superhero Talent" Official Selection at 2007 Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Festival

"Superhero Talent" Official Selection at Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Festival

"Lacking Lewis" Official Selection at 2007 Longbaugh Film Festival

"Lacking Lewis" Official Selection at Longbaugh Film Festival. March 31, 2007