BIG NEWS for BIG COUNTRY BLUES! It has now not only won Best Drama at the IFQ Film and New Media Festival, but also 11 AWARDS at LAWeb Fest including Outstanding Drama Series, Acting awards for all three of us in the cast, direction, and writing! And it was chosen as 1 of 9 series to be screened in the Marseille WebFest! BCB goes to France!
I got online and saw the trailer was up, so I watched that for the first time. It looks great and I can't wait to see the full episodes! Watch it here : http://www.bigcountryblues.com/trailer/
I'm super excited and am so proud of everyone involved. Really talented and dedicated people involved in this project. And just genuinely nice people, too. How often does that happen? I wish everyone with BCB all the best. They SO deserve it!
I spent the rest of the day flyering. I met a lovely vegetarian named Nicolas who wanted to commiserate with me on the moral wrongness of eating meat. Now, I am a vegetarian - no animals for my mouth. However, that's just because I think it's gross. I spent the whole conversation hoping Nicolas didn't look down at my adorable and very comfortable suede boots. (Trust me, I've been in that conversation before with some crazies here on the streets of Williamsburg and it didn't go well. It seems it doesn't matter that the fur lining is faux when the rest of the boot is the back side of a cow's skin...) Ah, well. Can't win 'em all.
Last night I attended a play reading with a group that I was involved with a hundred years ago on a project that actually never happened...you heard me. You never know where your contacts come from - She actually saw me in a show another hundred years ago and then asked me to do a staged reading that unfortunately had to be canceled. Anyhow, she recently started a club where artists come together and read/listen/work on plays. Amazing. It was a lovely night and I'm so glad that was an email I responded to. I loved meeting everyone and reading her play was a great time. I hope to join them again soon for another club meeting.
So, in review: Our web series is kicking ass, I won an award - but not for being a good vegetarian, and I got to hang with talented lovely people and read a new play. Life is pretty freakin' sweet.