Daughter of Godcast

Daughter of Godcast 001


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A podcast about movie making and the science fiction featurette, Daughter of God, with Director Shri Fugi Spilt, (Dan Kelly). Daughter of Godcast, Episode 001, That’s No Moon.

This month August 2016 starts the gentle release of a project started 11 years ago this September, Daughter of God. I reckon by now most of my friends and family think this movie is a myth, a hallucination. Even the cast and crew have long since given up asking. Several people I wanted to invite to opening night have selfishly up and died. The last thing anyone expects is absolute and total completion.

I have enjoyed a perverse satisfaction presenting as a poser for the last decade, weeding out the unimaginative and painfully pragmatic. That’s over now. Those who truly love me have not been fooled… and they will be richly rewarded.

If I just rolled my baby out of the shed right now, all sparkly and gleaming, there could be a rash of fainting spells, apoplexy, governmental collapse, spontaneous pregnancies… so we’re going to take this slow and easy. Maybe you think I’m just stalling for time, that it’s still NOT totally DONE. Maybe you’d be right. Maybe you can just go pound sand.

So let’s begin with a story…

Episode 001 – That’s no moon…

I arrived in Palm Springs on a big old jet plane. This is September, 2005. Back in those days I still flew in jets, before I realized what a nasty fuck you to planet Earth flying in jets was, I mean is. The spooky consequences of kerosene combustion in the lower stratosphere. Forget about the carbon footprint. Forget even about corn syrup junkies overflowing their cramped seats and pesky skyscrapers always getting in the way.

I didn’t make hotel reservations, just started calling around for vacancies when I hit the terminal. The Palm Court Inn was all pastel California cute and reasonably priced. The Palm Springs Short Film Festival.

My first festival and attending as a filmmaker. Editor actually. Also continuity repair and soundtrack. What De Niro’s character pulled off in Pulp Fiction. After months of triage, I had unexpectedly made Michael Aaron’s student project, Blind Date, watchable.  This narrative short had been subsequently accepted into the Short Fest’s film market. Although Micheal and I had fallen out since, I wanted to see what festivals were all about.

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