Scraps of news...

I got an email today from Cheryl, the Creative Services Coordinator from the Vancouver Film School showing me the ad that the school recently ran in the trade paper "Playback." In the ad, they congratulated me on Death's acceptance into the Vancouver International Film Festival. Pretty cool stuff, thanks VFS.

In other news, or lack of future news (for me at least), I'm leaving my job at KEZI 9 News. When I told my boss that I would like to request time off in November for my trip to the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, he told me that it probably wouldn't work out because my trip fell on sweeps week. For those who don't know, sweeps is when broadcasters use the viewership numbers collected during an amount of time to set advertising rates for the rest of the year, therefore they put their best material out at that time. The reason that I couldn't get time off is because the new News Director decided to have a "no vacation" policy during sweeps. My boss supported my decision to leave, so I'm leaving on good terms, which is good. What's bad is that now I'll be out of a job when I get back from Germany, and I'm dropping a ton of money on the trip. So if anybody has a job opening at the beginning of December.

That's all I've got for now. The Portland International Short Short Festival is this weekend in Portland, Oregon. Anyone in the area should definitly check it out, I think it's gonna be pretty good. Death will screen on both nights of the festival (I'm not sure why). Check out the website for more information about the festival.