The long road home

It’s October 2014. A little over 9 years ago, I wrote the first draft of the script for Daughter of God at the Palm Springs short festival. The year before, I had stopped filing tax returns as an act of defiance of the military consumption imperial complex. I know this was silly, as I was still…

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DOG Planning 5

[04-27-14] This probably needs to be broken down into manageable sections, or at least mined for the most relevant material. Amazing the record herein contained of persistence, mistakes, bravado and competency. visionary babble, interesting story tangents, notes on process 1/4/07-2/22-07, map of sound Daughter of God – Planning and Logistics 1. key 1.1. * in…

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08-29-06 tasks

PLAN / 2006 / tasks (08-29-06) legal overload that distracted from the actual creative effort, thanks to the convoluted style of John Tormey tasks 1. dan to do 1. Artist house, Inc. corporate 1. corporate reports 2. ownership 1. paperwork from JBK 3. accounting 1. file corporate reports and pay corporate taxes 4. trademark 1.…

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08-29-06 DOG legal inventory

see updated version below 09-04-06 08/29/06 production legal file inventory (1 original set, 2 copies – 1 at lawyer’s 1 in folder) 1 original script (10 pages including title page) 2 copyright application for script 2.1 copyright application for original script/screenplay (2 pages) 2.2 photocopy of check for copyright application (1 page) 2.3 canceled check…

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04-03-06 steve

agreement 1. compensation – Artist house provides 1. $1500 for 10 days of work in Canada – payable after completion of shooting 2. $500 bonus (based on evaluation of dedication to project and excellence in performance) 3. $646 plane fare (cash match for Steve) 4. Food and lodging 5. Credit, full card 6. Excerpt of…

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03-21-06 DOG initial email contractors

emails initiating work with all contractors 1. BCCed to members of DOG mailing list, Carmen Althaus Michael (Melonie) Callaghan Dan Kelly Ann Loeding Maho Mizutani Sone Laynea Roberts Eiji Sumi Steven Zilliax 2. From: Dan Kelly <nomad@artisthouse.com> Date: March 21, 2006 10:27:30 AM EST To: Dan Kelly <nomad@artisthouse.com> Cc: Dan Kelly <nomad@artisthouse.com> Subject: contracts and…

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02-16-06 dog visa drafts

Netherlands company and american company are making a film together. We’ve identified a swiss actress and we would like to offer her a part in a movie we going to shoot in New York. The dutch company will be hiring her. I am a director working with a dutch production company. We are shooting a…

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