Yes, Trey has finally joined us old and decrepit souls, finally reaching the ripe old age of 31.  As you said back in December, Trey, 31 is 13 in reverse, so hopefully this will also be a good year for you, too.

Happy Birthday!

So, not to overshadow our previous announcement, which is I believe the first real mention that Omega13 Productions will have a film we’re going to try to get in the 2010 Nashville Film Festival (among others).

But this year, in fact in just two weeks, another film will be premiering at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival, a film not made by either Trey or myself, but we do make a small cameo appearance (unless we’ve been cut from the film).

The film is “Leto” and was written and directed by our good friend Luke Dye.  If anyone that reads this is in the area of Green Hills, in Nashville, TN, on either Tuesday, April 21 or Thursday, April 23, you should check it out.  Further information is available at http://www.nashvillefilmfestival.org.  We hope to see you there.

Greetings.
First off, I’d like to apologize sincerely for not posting in so gosh darn long. From all (three) of us here at Omega13 Productions, we are sorry. Our day jobs keep getting in the way of the fun things…

Now, on to the good stuff! The script for the Nashville Film Festival film (which as yet remains unnamed) is very nearly completed! It is jam-packed with action, adventure, romance, and ice cream! Mostly ice cream… I need to stop writing when I’m hungry…

It has been a nice challenge to work collaboratively on a script– especially when the writers live a few hours apart.
We have been working with a composer on a score and are working on a deal with a recording studio to get freebies. Ah nepotism!
We have also been working with actors and Ryan and I will have a reading with them this weekend when I am back into town. One of us will post again to write about how that went.

All in all, things are going very well. Shooting should begin in May and conclude in June. The moment is swift upon us!

Be checking back to read of all the wonderous happenings that are about to… happen.

Hello, friends.
This is an update! But there is nothing really to report, so I guess this is just my way of letting you know that some of us here are still alive and able to type. Barely.
The “super secret” project that Ryan wrote about awhile back is coming along, uh… slowly but surely. Ideas are whizzing about and “percolating” in the minds of the writers and some paramount developments are on the horizon. It’s very exciting in a tortoise sort of way. But hey, he won the race anyway, right?

Basically, this post is just to tell you to keep watching with tense anticipation for further developments. You won’t be disappointed.

 JVC recently announced a couple of new tantalizing cameras, the GY-HM100U and the GY-HM700.

 The HM100U is a 1/4″  3CCD handheld camcorder with integrated lens, while the HM700 big brother sports 1/3″ 3CCDs in a compact shoulder mount form factor with a nicely spec’d removable Canon lens. Which, by the way, is actually included with the purchase of the camera!

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 Panasonic sent out a wave of press releases yesterday (02/11/09) announcing new and eye-brow raising products to their line-up. As exciting as these additions are by themselves, they seem to be indicative of a modularity trend and ample-option mentality emerging in P-sonic’s marketing plans.

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 Hey gang! Er, uh well, maybe not so much a gang as a few stragglers. But the best stragglers booze can buy, I might add!

 Anyway, I’m sure it’s well known we here at the Omega are into alternative forms of media distribution. Mostly this is because we have a snowballs chance in a supernova to distribute our work through traditional channels (i.e. your local cineplex).

 We’re also into it because it’s the way of…  Tha Futcha!

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 Stu Maschwitz posted on is blog Prolost, that The Orphanage will be closing their doors for an indeterminate amount of time.

 If you don’t know, The Orphanage was a feature visual effects, commercial production, and animation studio. They pretty much blazed the trail for digital intermediate work and visual effects in film for the past ten years. And, while beating us over the head with their logic and brilliance, pointed us in the right direction for the best possible future of digital cinema.

 The Orphanage also created Magic Bullet, software plug-ins Ryan and I have coveted ever since they were released. Seeing the DV work of The Orphanage gang all those years ago was very inspirational and we’ve been sold on the idea of digital filmmaking ever since. Somehow I get the feeling, all the high-end work The Orphanage pioneered was done to prepare Hollywood for the rising generation of digital filmmakers they helped spawn.

 So, hats off to The Orphanage! I can’t wait to see what you guys do next!

 Update: The Orphanage Animation Studio is a separate company, and as such, will not be ceasing operations. Woo-hoo!!

It seems film competitions are popping up all over now that the digital age has pushed the cost of cameras and equipment down into the realm that mere mortals can afford them. This means that ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell can now have a chance to speak to the world.

Among these new competitions is the Ultimate Filmmaker Competition. Announced just recently at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, they’re offering the ability to submit a screenplay and, if it’s good enough, eventually have a shot at getting it produced into a film for a $200,000 budget and an additional $300,000 worth of equipment and support.

Yes, if  you can write a $500,000 film, you may be able to win this thing.

And for those still speculating, yes, our current secret project — intended for the Nashville Film Festival in 2010 — may well be modified in order to qualify for submission in this competition.  That’s the plan, at least.

The big big news of the new New Year (2009) is the return of Richard M., a long absent commentator to this site. (Actual name is Ricardo Montelray.)

Richard was spotted making a comment on the New Years Day post late New Years Day.

Is this a sign he will return to his illustrious commenting with the same vigor?

Or is it true, what many believe, that it’s all a hoax? That it’s an elaborate conspiracy by the creators of Omega13 to inject a little drama and excitement into their lame little website.

But perhaps it really is Richard M. back from sherpa-ing in the Himalayas.

And if it is all a prank, does anyone care?

Could you really blame Omega13 for creating an ingenious method, so intricately laid, so utterly pathetic, to entice Sir Richard M. to return to their lowly parcel in the dank trenches of the web?

Yes… Sir Richard M.  The man, the myth, the legend, the sherpa… if you are still out there, and if you can hear me, remember…

The Schwartz is in you, Richard! The Schwartz is in you!

(cue the A-Team theme)