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06/12/08BACK FROM CHINA
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10:59 PM

RICK GETTING WISDOM
I just returned from China and I could not blog from there because of the GREAT FIREWALL of CHINA but I did learn some lessons:

I learned that huge amounts of people sharing limited resources can co-exist peacefully. It's not pretty and it's often filthy but it bodes well for our future in an overpopulated world.

I learned that Chinese people have an absolute thirst for knowledge and that their willingness to learn from others is allowing them to progress in leaps and bounds. Enthusiasm may not be "cool" but it is productive.

I learned there there may be a good side to the current gas crisis--that the market will force us to find clean alternative ways of getting around. The air in Beijing is a dystopian nightmare straight out of BLADE RUNNER---which could have been shot here without special effects.

I learned that Beijing Taxi drivers like foreigners so much that they just want to drive us around and around until we insist on arriving:) Thankfully, it still only costs four dollars to go anywhere.

I learned not to drink two glasses of watermelon juice and two glasses of plum juice at lunch if you have anything else to do the rest of the day.

I've learned that I miss my family A WHOLE LOT when I travel alone and that in the words of Dorothy, 'there's no place like home'. No matter where I travel, no matter what my adventures, 'there's no place like home'.

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05/28/08SPAMMED BY VIAGRA
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Our family in Italy after winning the...
No my friends. It has not been over two years since I wrote my last director's blog. Unfortunately, our website got spammed by a Viagra mass mailing(that stuff really IS powerful) and my two years of memories got melded into a 40 gigabite piece of molten hard drive. So, I'm starting over.

I'm off to China tomorrow to collect the GOLDEN DUCK AWARD--from the BEIJING FILM FESTIVAL--our 66th festival and 33rd award for EXPIRATION DATE. I'll be speaking at the Beijing Film Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts. Anyone been to China? Anybody got any advice besides "watch your head?"

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06/10/06BACK TO SCHOOL
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Four years ago I took my daughter Mad...
We had a fundraiser screening of EXPIRATION DATE for the SHORELINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION tonight at Shorewood High School. My home district is in financial crisis and this seemed like a good way to make the movie useful. I underestimated the joy of being able to show the film to my friends and neighbors---people I have known my own life either through my parents, myself or my kids. Once again, after a successful screening, SMITH BROTHERS arrived a Sunset and the entire community was out drinking milk on lawn in front of the high school. My entire family was there. It doesn't get any better.

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06/08/06HEART OF THE GAME
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Now, you may be wondering why this pi...
It's Thursday night, June 8th, and I've just come from the Seattle International Film Festival premiere of HEART OF THE GAME--the documentary about the Roosevelt girls basketball team. What an amazing film and well deserving of its blockbuster sale to Miramax. As I was standing and clapping at the end with the rest of the audience, I felt excited about the renaissance that seems to be occuring in Seattle film these days. Works from Garrett Bennett, Lynn Sheldon, Robinson Devor, George Wing, John Jeffcoat....the list goes on. It's a great time to be making movies here.

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06/06/06DAIRY BY SUNSET
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06:47 AM

Baby Quinn
Our screening for the native American community was a complete joy. The audience laughed at practically everything including the inside jokes and they were generous with their comments. They especially appreciated the metaphor of dance for living life.

Quinn, the little boy who plays the infant Charlie Silvercloud, is now two and arrived wearing a big cowboy hat and boots. He looked like a big-shot actor without knowing that he was one. Really cute.

After the screening, SMITH BROTHER'S sent the killer milk truck and we all stood around outside the Daybreak Star Centre on a perfect spring evening sipping milk as the sun went down.

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