Pickleman Productions

Sonoma Valley Film Festival

2008-04-26T10:01:00.000-07:00

Hi again,

Dave And Elizabeth recently traveled to Sonoma Valley for the "Sonoma Valley Film Festival". Probably one of the most extravagant festivals ever. Hollywood's all over this thing. Micheal Keaton was the guest of honor.

http://www.sonomafilmfest.org/

We had 2 films accepted in Sonoma; "MFA" and "Festival Experience". So we definitely have bragging rights.
The parties were scattered all over the Sonoma Wine Country. They were just fantastic. The mix of people varied. But for the most part, people were interested and engaged in film making and animation.

Women started to perform with flaming blocks on chains.

OK, so surrounded by millionaires, in hoydy-toydy land - Elizabeth puts a home-made pickle on her head. She became an icon. The people, wherever we went, whatever we were doing, they instantly recognized her, and began to give her gifts on the street. It's probably her personality that's magic... but I wouldn't loose that hat. :-)

Here's Dave, taking a moment in the sun at one of the many Wineries.

Here's Elizabeth doing her best "snooty" sniff of wine.

What?... Oh, come on, the wine tastings only give you a little bit, but that's pushing it.

It wasn't all fun and games. A Q&A after the Animated Shorts.

Spot the Pickle!!

Stay Tuned, more to come!!

Latest Festivals to accept our films

2008-03-16T19:55:00.001-07:00

www.cciff.com/finalists_2008.htm

www.viffi.org/official_selections.cfm

www.allamericanfilmfestival.com/Schedule.html

www.twinriversmediafestival.com/awards.html

www.davinci-days.org/pdf_files/fvf07_filmguide.pdf

www.venerationfilmfestival.org/

www.magfest.com

Beverly Hills Short Film Festival

2008-03-16T19:33:00.001-07:00

The Beverly Hills Shorts Festival Pics

Smoke break between film sets.

Small but very classy theater.

Dave's just kicking back, waiting for the fest to start.

Dave with the creators of the BHSF. Lauren and Daniel Martone. (don't know who the nice lady on the far right is, sorry.)

Two winners in the Horror section, William Van Cuyck directed "Love Crazy" a short about a serial killer "who thinks he's John Cusack." http://jujuhoundproductions.com/ And Sergio Pinheiro, writer/Director of "The Procedure" a pretty sweet short that calls back to the good ole days of sci-fi. Very well done. Check out his work at http://thedonnybrook.com/

All American Film Festival Pics

2008-03-16T19:09:00.000-07:00

Here are the highlights from the 2008 All American Film Festival.

On the opening night the Waterboys entertained everyone.

Bonnie Schaefer reports upon and enjoys the festival. She can be contacted at www.southernneighbor.com.

The opening night was full of fans and filmmakers. Wendy, the half of the festival founders finds herself surrounded by elation and support.

Our producer, Nora enjoys a cup of Lebanese coffee.

Friday night at the Broad Street Café numerous bands performed. An ingenious idea from the AAFF to expose musicians and filmmakers. Michelle of the Midtown Dickens keeps the beat.

Thoughtspeak performs innovative and mind-blowing music.

www.thoughtspeakmusic.com

The Midtown Dickens perform with passion, banjos, accordions,

and with a xylophone. They are phenomenal performers.

Find them at www.midtowndickens.com

Kym playing the trumpet.

The Future Kings of nothing perform rocking, high energy music.

Alan Abel and Todd Tinkham enjoy the awards evening.

Antonio and Bossi Bogacht are photographers and fans of film.

Their fantastic work can be found at www.bogartphoto.com

Sarah, Amy, and Celia win The Special Jury Award. They love girls with guns and their films reflect that. They can be reached at www.southerngirlfilms.com

Jeffery with more winners.

Jeffery and Mary enjoy the party. Look for them in future

roles of Pickleman’s first feature film coming out in the

2009 circuit.

Ajit an inventive filmmaker created www.squigglebooth.com to

showcase independent films.

Elizabeth is joyful during the events.

Beverly Hills Shorts Festival

2008-03-05T08:23:00.000-08:00

Update: The link to the RealTvFilm.com has been shifted HERE. Interviews are still in the works.

As for the festival, pics and stories will be up soon.

THE MAG

2008-03-01T09:58:00.000-08:00

Elizabeth has offered up some great pics from the Magnolia Film Festival. Aside from the parties,the drinking, the horseplay, and the debauchery, I hear they showed some films too.

This picture says it about the “Magnolia Independent FilmFestival”; good food, great conversations, constant learning. Best fest ever! www.magfilmfest.com

Daniel Lee one cool dude and filmmaker. His company Suicide Kings Films is responsible for remaking 50 and 60’s cult horror classics. His latest film “Memphis Zombie Attack: The Documentary” was side-splitting fun. www.myspace.com/suicidekingfilms

Early morning shot of just a few filmmakers and loyal crew of the “Magnolia Film Festival.” They transported all of us around the area and put up with our debauchery.

Example of our work at the MSU campus.

This festival kept the food coming. We ate till we burst.

Dan Masucci attacked the triple decker “MugShot Burger.” Dan’s films were hear-felt and had a camera that constantly moved throughout the film. And yet, it was not distracting, but aided in focusing out attention. Wonderful. www.lettinggofilm.com

Local filmmaker Stephen Lehman showed his film “Connections” during the festival.

Mary Cates and Todd Tinkham drove from North Carolina to attend. They work together on many short films. Their work is sincere and sensitive. They contain a palatable beauty which is rare to find. In March they are overseeing the www.allamericanfilmfestival.com

Rob, can’t say enough good things about this man. He’s a hoot. A loyal crew member of the festival. He even got up early on Saturday to head up the workshop. Good job Rob!

The media was present throughout the festival, even to watch us eat.

The Hollywood Premier Cinemas held the festival. The theaters were clean and the prices of snacks was affordable. Good sound and comfortable seating. Good times.

The festival was so exciting, there were nurses on hand to help the swooning audience. Elizabeth is appears elated.

Packed house on Saturday night. In fact, Friday and Saturday night shows were sold out. People were actually turned away. Impressive!

Scott T. Jones in the foreground while Adam Bolt speaks during the Q and A Saturday night. CK Lichenstein looks on in his red shirt. Find Scott’s film at www.talilifilms.com Adam’s at www.vanishedacres.com and CK’s at www.blueprintfilms.com

The Pickle's Been Plugged

2008-02-29T07:46:00.000-08:00

Last night was the opening night party for the Beverly Hills Shorts Festival. Dave mingled for a bit, and then had the chance to be interviewed by Gordon Vasquez of RealTVFilms.com. Dave managed to get "picklemanproductions.com" mentioned in the 6 minute intervew about a 90 second film.

The interview should be up on their website shortly.

CHECK THE SITE HERE

Beverly Hills Short Film Festival

2008-02-26T20:09:00.000-08:00

This weekend, Dave will be representing Pickleman Productions at the Beverly Hills Shorts Festival.

http://www.beverlyhillsshortsfestival.com/schedule.htm

Festival Experience will be shown on Sunday, the last block of films before the Awards Ceremony.

"Festival Experience" to show at the Mag

2008-02-14T07:39:00.000-08:00

"Festival Experience" will be shown at the 2008 Magnolia Independent Film Festival which runs from Feb. 14 - 16.

"Festival Experience" will be shown on Saturday th 16th.

Always save the best for last, eh?

Elizabeth, (writer, director and star of "Festival Experience") will be attending.

For the full film lineup, click here.

Time Flys

2008-01-30T20:07:00.000-08:00

OK...

It's been a while since we've posted. Mainly because not much has been going on. But the film festival circuit has started up again, and already we're getting feedback.

1. Festival Experience is in the finals in the "What the Hell Did I Just Watch" comedy film festival. http://www.whatthehelldidijustwatch.com/

2. Festival Experience has been accepted in the Beverly Hills Short Film Festival. http://www.beverlyhillsshortsfestival.com/

We're thrilled that our first live-action short film has been received so openly.

VUZE HD Update

2007-11-25T09:35:00.000-08:00

When I first posted many, many months ago about WAY being on VUZE, what I didn't know was just how ahead of the curve I was. VUZE, if you're not familiar, is a website that offers free HD video downloads. I jumped at the chance to have WAY as an HD viewable media.

We were excited to post WAY in HD, since all of the hand drawn animation had been scanned in well over HD resolution, so up-resing the final product to HD was easy. (thanks Dave for the 20/20)

But Vuze was in its infancy, and so there were several problems with it. And since we are too busy making films to chase websites around, we let it fade into a memory.

Until now.

Recently, Cinequest, a film festival has teamed up with Vuze and it has really improved. We were able to not only upload WAY as an HD file, free to view. But we have 3 of our films up on that site now. In prestine high res quality.

You can watch all of these films as streaming media by clicking on the following links.

WAY -HD -

Festival Expereince - SD -

MFA -SD -

Festival Experience honored with an Audience Choice Encore!!

2007-11-25T07:07:00.000-08:00

Festival Experience was shown at the 4th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival. It was shown again as an "Audience favorite" and given an encore showing Nov. 26-28.

Festival Experience is a comical short about a determined young woman's struggles to a film festival. It was written and stars Elizabeth Pasieczny.

You can watch it :here: on Google Video

MFA

2007-11-21T17:31:00.000-08:00

While Elizabeth Pasieczny was earning her Masters of Fine Arts degree, she created a short stop motion animation. The project began 5 years ago. Shot entirely on a laser disc burner, the data was difficult to recover in it's pristine quality. Fortunately, several years later, the devoted folks at Pickleman Productions having invested a small fortune of their own funds into buying film making and editing equipment, managed to rescue this otherwise lost treasure.

Though several years have gone by, we consider this the latest addition to the Pickleman catalog.

The music was written by the talented Rene Tsan, an early contributor to the Pickle. Dave Cooley was final audio mixer and compositor.

Please watch and enjoy this short animated stop motion film at google video HERE.

If that doesnt' work for you, copy and paste this -

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1026375188561281971&hl=en

An interesting side note, This project marks the first time Elizabeth and Dave worked together, which was the birth of Pickleman Productions.

"WAY" honored in South Africa

2007-10-08T16:45:00.000-07:00

Dargle, South Africa

September 29, 2007

"WAY" won second place in the category of "Best Animation / CGI" at the Everglades International Film Festival.

This is the third time "WAY" has been honored with an award.

http://www.amritsa.com/ev1.htm

IMDB has WAY

2007-08-24T11:33:00.000-07:00

IMDB has a short write-up for "WAY".

Check it out here

Way Nominated for Best Animation / CGI At the Everglades International Film Fest

2007-08-21T12:08:00.000-07:00

The Everglades International Film Festival in South Africa has honored "WAY" with a nomination for Best Animation/CGI.

This is "WAY's" fifth nomination.

We wish the good people at EIFF all the best. We're sorry we can't be there.

http://www.amritsa.com/ev1.htm

Way wins 2nd place

2007-08-18T10:52:00.000-07:00

Way was awarded 2nd place in the Animation category of the Twin Rivers Media Festival in May 2007.

This comes a bit late, as we were never informed of the honor. But nonetheless, we're delighted to hear it!

http://www.twinriversmediafestival.com/awards.html

Festival Experience on YouTube

2007-07-14T08:36:00.000-07:00

We've finally had a chance to post Festival Experience on Youtube.com

The quality isn't as good as Google Video. But here it is. HERE

Pickleman Productions in HD

2007-07-14T08:16:00.000-07:00

Pickleman Productions has become the newest member in the HD online video website VUZE.

Like many other online video download website, you can browse, view and download videos. But on VUZE, the footage is in pristine high quality standard or HD.

To View WAY on HD, simply click HERE

The Festival Experience

2007-07-01T13:47:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a roller coaster of traveling for us. We've been North, South, East and West. In and out of the grand ole USA.

And we've learned some things on our trips. And as is the custom for film makers, the best response is another film. So please check out our latest short film.

CLICK HERE

WAY Nominated for Best Animated Short

2007-05-01T12:12:00.000-07:00

WAY has been nominated for Best Animated Short at the Swansea Bay International Film Festival in Swansea, Wales.

http://www.swanseafilmfestival.com/home.htm

WAY accepted in Cannes Short Film Festival

2007-05-01T12:10:00.000-07:00

WAY was recently accepted to the Cannes Short Film Corner.

http://www.shortfilmcorner.com/indexsfc_us.htm

"WAY" WINS BEST ANIMATION! ALL-AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

2007-02-25T15:10:00.000-08:00

February 24, 2007.

"Way" was awarded with Best Animation/ Experimental Film from the All-American Film Festival.

We are now able to refew to the film as "The Award Winning Short Film, "Way".

Thanks to all who came out and saw the film in Durham.

Way is on Google Video

2007-02-13T06:26:00.001-08:00

Watch the film now!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4331040501588686331&pr=goog-sl

Welcome to PicklemanProductions Blog

2007-02-12T07:58:00.000-08:00

Hello!

And thank you for taking the time to visit the latest update to www.PicklemanProductions.com.

We're very busy organizing trips to film festivals, sending out the necessary press materials and updating the website. So please be patient while we run ourselves ragged for your enjoyment.

We'll be posting updated information about festivals we've visited, post pictures and describing our experiences as we LITERALLY travel the globe sharing our film with the world.