Jill Remensnyder

LIGHT OF MINE WINS 2 DEFFIES AT HDFEST!!!

We’re excited and honored to announce Light of Mine won Best Feature and Best Director at the 2011-2012 HDFest!  Holy wow!  Grateful and constantly humbled.  I like to think of Light of Mine as “the little film that could”!

We’re not done yet- we screen tomorrow night at the Lighthouse International Film Festival.  Still waiting to hear back from a few more festivals and then it’s onward and upward…  Lighthouse is yet another festival we can’t attend due to Brett’s busted up ankle and leg.  He’s in a hard cast for another month, then a boot- then he should be able to start putting weight on it in July.  WTF.  Special shout out to the city of Newport, Oregon on that one.  In spite of Brett losing a lot of work and this totally turning our lives upside down- did I mention he has to have another surgery 6 months from now?  This is far from over in regards to Brett’s recovery, healing, and moving on.

(Shortly after Brett hurting himself, Oliver the rabbit crucified his little bunny paws on a couple carpet tacks in the corner of the room where he dug up the carpet.  This required pet ER visit and 2 weeks of meds twice a day.  Until you have the joy of giving antibiotics to a rabbit who behaves more like a silverback gorilla you haven’t lived.  That alone was enough to push me over the edge, never mind Bionic Brett and his franken-ankle.)

As May wraps up I’ve got a couple new scripts going.  We have 3 projects ready to go- we’ll pull the trigger on the project that can secure funding.  Isn’t that always the case?  I’m confident and feel good about our options- the future is definitely bright.

I’ll post photos of the awards when we get them- they’re being engraved.  I’m like the mom who hangs every piece of art her kid drags home from school on the refrigerator.

I will note- I have a huge appreciation and respect for anyone in the nursing/caregiving field.  I’ve been run ragged taking him to dr appts, getting painkillers refilled, fixing meals, every aspect of cleaning ranging from showers to maintaining the house, and trying to keep everything running smoothly and not letting on that I’m about to have a nervous breakdown.  This must be what it’s like to be a parent.  Big shout out to all the single moms out there!

Last Day

We leave Vegas tonight- I dropped the ball with updates but I’ll catch up later. A lot going on…

Rio

The hotel in Vegas- not that place in Brazil where you can get cheap back alley plastic surgery and gangs of five year olds will gun you down for a dollar…

Yesterday was stress x 10 as it always is before we go out of town. We got into Vegas a couple hours ago and we’ll be heading over to NAB in a little bit to get the lay of the land- we’ll hit the ground hard tomorrow and Wednesday.

Things we are excited about: cameras! I’ll be trying to post what I find on twitter (jillremensnyder is my handle) but we’ll see… I always get distracted.

Also looking forward to networking. Seeing that we’re gearing up for Brett’s next feature every contact counts.

I’ll try to post some good photos here- like bad haircuts and obscene logos on their clothing. After all, not everyone is into all this tech stuff ; )

Good Friday? Try Awesome!

I love Easter.  To be specific, I love chocolate bunnies.  Any chocolate, but partial to bunnies.  I’ve found that begin a grown-up doesn’t always allow you the same fun at the holidays as it did when I was a kid.  (However, I do enjoy celebrating with a good martini, something my younger years didn’t allow.)

We have a pretty big shoot tomorrow.  It’s a spec spot and I’ll leave it at that, but a lot of people seem to be interested in this project.  I’ve got a funny feeling it will take off, too.  That also worries me since this came out of left field there’s a chance other projects may suffer.  Nonsense!  Just gotta keep focused and keep going!

I’ve been pretty busy with writing.  Script Frenzy (write 100 pages in a month of a script) is going on and I’m using it to stay on task with a web series I’ve been working on.  I haven’t been uploading my pages everyday but I’ll get caught up.  I also have three articles due next week- making that my weekend plan.  I got a jump start earlier this week but blah.  Got sucked into health insurance and tax headache.  Since I didn’t win the MegaMillions jackpot I still have to deal with these minor annoyances.  (I’m gonna be pissed if the world ends in 2012 and I spent my last months on Earth stressing about my tax bill.)

I think I found a solution on how to tell a certain story Brett and I’ve been entertaining- still need to test my “theory” on paper to see how it holds up outside of my little head.  Still plugging away on the idea I have for another script.  Always.  

Here’s a list of the things I’ve been thinking about way too much:

1.  My backyard landscaping.  That isn’t code for anything personal- my patio and lawn is a mess and the Pinot Noir vines are out of control.  (However, I guess it could be interpreted in a dirty way- but you shouldn’t.)

2. Cavity.  Maybe a cracked tooth?  It’s in the early stages but I’ll wait until it’s really bad so the dentist can identify it easier than really having to look for it.

3. Health Insurance.  It’s a scam if you’re healthy and when you need it, it never seems to cover the cost of what ails you.  I’m going thru hell with my carrier right now.  Luckily my insurance agent is on top of it- and he’s recovering from his 2nd open heart surgery.  If anyone knows a thing or two about insurance it’s gotta be this guy.

4. Work.  My writing jobs have really picked up this Spring and production jobs are starting to pick up.  Yet, I can’t seem to let go of my part-time safety net of waiting tables 2 nights a week.  If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have any human interaction- that and it’s easy money.  Sometimes.  Remember to tip 18-20% and don’t snap your fingers to get a server’s attention or ask them if they have a real job.  I have a feeling I’ll be going on hiatus again very soon the way things are going…

5. Roots.  Not my family origins- my hair.  Looks trashy.  Put me down for a manicure too.

That’s it as of right now.  Prepare yourselves for a bunch of Easter pictures of my rabbit, Oliver.  Back to the three articles I’m procrastinating on.  Ugh.