When I received the call from Raul Niño Zambrano from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, known internationally as IDFA, asking us if we would screen our film U.N. Me  in competition, I was unsure how to receive this news.  See, this is my first film and I haven’t really been involved in the documentary community until recently.  As such I was unaware of the pecking order of documentary film festivals.  But, as I soon came to find out that IDFA is Mecca for documentary film makers and enthusiasts, in fact, it is the largest and most prestigious documentary film festival in the world.  Having your film in competition in the festival automatically brushes your movie with an imprimatur of legitimacy within the documentary film world. 

So with that knowledge I happily accepted the invitation and jetted off for a week in Amsterdam with my co–producer, agent and publicist.  It wasn’t quite “Entourage,” but for our purposes it worked.

To truly understand the atmosphere of a film festival, you have to understand the bubble that is the film festival generally, and documentary film festival in particular. This is not to pass judgment on it, but rather to simply point out the fact that they live in an inviolable envelope of political homogeneity and when something shakes their world view the tremors are felt throughout the festival. That is exactly what we did. (more…)

I’m putting the finishing touches on my feature film coming out later this year called “U.N. Me”  (unmemovie.com), a satirical documentary on the profound failures of the United Nations. Here’s the third of three clips that very much represent the flavor of my upcoming film. Hope you enjoy … ”Iran Diplomat.”

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I’m putting the finishing touches on my feature film coming out later this year called “U.N. Me”  (unmemovie.com), a satirical documentary on the profound failures of the United Nations. Here’s the second of three clips that very much represent the flavor of my upcoming film. Hope you enjoy … ”Guns Don’t Kill People, Climate Change Does.”

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I’m putting the finishing touches on my feature film coming out later this year called “U.N. Me”  (unmemovie.com), a satirical documentary on the profound failures of the United Nations.  Over the next three days, I’ll be presenting clips that represent the flavor of the film. Part one is “Swag Bag.”

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