This year the academy basically robbed Babel and Alejandro González Iñárritu of best film and best director respectively.

Best director? Yes Marty deserved an award, yes his body of work needed to be recognized, yes his films are masterful and unique, yes i attended the same grad film program that he did and will probably be chastised for this comment, but directing is about making choices and Iñárritu’s were flawless (yes even the casting of Pitt for that particular role). Marty, on the other-hand… not so much. The final image of the Departed (the rat) is just one such example.

I won’t go on about best film.

we are extremely pleased to announce that red letters and our amazing director of photography tanon
sattarujawong was awarded a craft award for best cinematography at the 2005 first run film festival!

congratulations non!

we are extremely pleased to announce that red letters has received the coveted warner bros. pictures film production award!

the generous people over at fujifilm have awarded me 20,000′ of 35mm motion picture film stock! the 8552 (250t) color negative film will definitely make all the difference in bringing red letters into existence.

in addition to the film stock award, crest national labs in los angeles has offered discounted processing for this film at an amazingly low rate!

many thanks to fuji film, crest national, and sandi sissel, asc for making this happen and for her and fuji’s support of student filmmakers everywhere.

this is just the start, but it’s a great one. i’m definitely looking forward to pre-production…