Director Bruce LaBruce recently launched a blog on his
Web site. In his most recent posting, entitled "Hey, Blogging is Fun!", he writes:
"Doing a Blog is scary. Even though I've basically been a blogger in print for the last eleven years, it's still unnerving to write down your thoughts, feelings, and ideas for all to see on the WWW. I recently stopped doing my monthly and bi-weekly columns for
Exclaim (fired after eleven years) and
Eye Weekly (quit after seven years), respectively, so now I suppose I'm reduced to this: blabbering on and on on the internet about my pathetic little life while listening to Sister Janet Mead singing The Lord's Prayer on my i-tunes. I am starting to publish in a variety of other publications and on websites, but I guess this is the only place I will be able to truly vent my spleen for a while. To jump right in, here's a comment I posted recently on a site called
Maisonneuve.org in response to an article a Canadian novelist wrote about my new movie
The Raspberry Reich after she saw it at the Berlinale. I went off on her because I am sick up and fed of critics and real people complaining about the 'bad acting' in my movies. It's a porno movie, for chrissakes. With real porn actors. Get a grip. And I had them delivering lines like 'Don't you understand the fundamental dynamics of terrorist abduction?' and 'In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy fo the desire to create.' Actually, for porn actors, I think they did pretty good. What do you expect? Shakespeare in the park?"
La Bruce's
Raspberry Reich is currently making the rounds of this summer's gay and lesbian film festivals, including
NewFest/New York,
Outfest/Los Angeles,
Frameline/San Francisco,
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and the
Seattle International Film Festival.
Also playing the queer fests is
John Palmer's terrific second feature,
Sugar, based on short stories by Bruce LaBruce.
LaBruce's
Raspberry Reich, a German/Canadian co-production, was produced by Jurgen Bruning, who recently launched a new porn company called
Wurstfilm. Bruning was previously a partner in
Cazzo Films with Jorg Andreas, whose film
Locked Up is also making the rounds of the gay fest circuit this summer.
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The 3rd Annual Drug War Vigil Film Festival
by press release (10 Sept, 2004)
This year's event will be in a Vancouver theatre
The Drug War Vigil Memorial Group is a social justice think tank that was founded in the fall of 2000, dedicated to ending the War on Drugs.
We recognize that the militarization of this medical issue and the criminalization of the chronically sick, terminally ill and chemically dependent have resulted in the needless loss of human life, and that this is the true crime.
We promoted social justice journalism at the 2002 Cannabis Culture Toker's Bowl Drug War Vigil Film Festival and again at the 2nd Annual Drug War Vigil Film Festival in May 2003, also during the Bowl. With spin-offs when 911 Media (www.911media.org) Washington State's premier Media Arts Center and the BC Compassion Club Society (www.thecompassionclub.org), a non-profit healthcare provider distributing cannabis and other holistic medicines, presented a DRUG WAR FILM FESTIVAL March 12 th in Seattle Wa. in addition to an earlier show here in East Vancouver.
This Year we using a theater Venue and staging it as separate event from the Toker's Bowl so broader spectrum of participants will be able to view.
Our group is honored to be affiliated with this event and thank Marc Emery and Chris Bennett, and crew of Pot-TV for their extraordinary activism in action in sponsoring this event.
Contest Details:
Send us your films of 30 minutes or less on any topic related to cannabis, drugs and the drug war, and/or Harm Reduction.
Only submit in plain old VHS tape or Hi-8 or digital-8.
The films will be screened and judged by participants at the Drug War Vigil Film Festival Sept 24-25th as well as viewers of WWW.Pot-TV.Net
The film chosen for first place will receive
A Grand Prize of $2000 US.. 2nd place $1000.00 3rd place $500.00
New Special 500.00 Prize for best short, a short being 5 minutes or less.
You must register your film for entry by to be eligible.
Registration is FREE and only requires you email us at dwvfilmproject@hotmail.com with your intention A.S.A.P. and projected length of your work.
We will need to receive the finished film by September 10th 2004
Watch the web page for further details relating to with confirmed dates and actually attending the event: cost, entertainment etc.
It is our hope to inspire independent and amateur film makers to produce inspirational works.
e-mail us at dwvfilmproject@hotmail.com or film@cannabisculture.com
visit our webpage at www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3400.html
Send your entry in to:
Drug War Vigil
4301 Fleming Street
Vancouver BC
Canada V5N 3W4
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Considering the current political climate, this author is practically begging to be arrested.
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