Catholic in Film School

I’m baaaaaaack! 
After 2 1/2 weeks of nonstop Aussie activity, a 2 hour delay, a 3 hour plane ride, another 12 hour plane ride, and finally a 3 hour car ride, I am finally home sweet home. 
I said before that I love Air New Zealand, and I still kinda do, but they lost one of my [...]

World Youth Day is officially over, and at the moment my group is staying in a local parish in Bourke, Australia, a tiny country town out in the outback about ten hours away from Sydney.
 Today we visited a local high school, a trade school for young mothers, got interviewed at the local radio station, took a [...]

And when I say I saw the pope I reallllly saw the pope! My assumptions were correct and my group was in the closest section possible! It got a little heated when part of the crowd broke through the barricade (one of my friends has a picture of some Slavic guy cursing out a police [...]

At the moment I’m at a covenience store/internet cafe in Moore Park in Sydney. I just saw Fr. Stan Fortuna play live and am on my way to another talk in about ten minutes.
 Pope Benedict arrives tomorrow! Opening mass was yesterday (mind you I’m a day ahead) and my footage is awful! We were in a [...]

I’m here in Sydney!
I just got off the plane and am writing this at a free internet kiosk. The plane ride was better than I imagined (Air New Zealand is officially the best airline ever). Pretty much everyone on the plane was going to WYD. There were some friars from the Franciscan Friars of the [...]

I was planning on posting the CNMC episode this morning before I left but I just didn’t have the time. (It takes about as long to export, upload, and post an episode as it does to shoot and edit it.)
I should have access to a computer periodically, so I will try to update when I [...]

Have you ever noticed how the commercials for medicines for herpes, male impotence, and whatever other sexually related disease you can think of tend to be the cheesiest? It’s always some middle-aged douchey-looking handsome guy playing tennis or painting a picture as he turns to the camera and goes, “I have genital herpes.” (Boy, [...]

This is one of those random posts that has zero to do with filmmaking and does nothing but show you how big of a dork I am.
Yesterday I didn’t do any blogging because I was out shopping all day and once I got back home I had to work on the book. I bought most [...]

I’m excited…oh dear am I excited…

I typically don’t buy magazines unless I like the person on the cover. I saw a scan of this August issue of GQ magazine with Christian Bale on the front and made a mental note to buy it in the airport on my way to Sydney later this week. [...]

During the last part of my interview with Mark he asked me to give a list of my top 20 films and an explanation as to why. Well, I will have you know that the title is actually kind of a misnomer. Instead of giving a list of my favorite classic and award-winning films [...]

I just read that 19-year-old American Idol contestant Paris Bennett has confirmed that she is pregnant. 19 years old. I’m 19….and if I know anything for sure it’s that I don’t need anybody calling me anything that starts with an “M” and ends with an “ommy.” I’m glad we don’t have a dead baby [...]

Allow me to direct your attention to two reality webisode series starring you guessed it…Catholics!
First up is Priest Academy, a French show starring two Catholic priests and one seminarian.
Can any of my French or otherwise super-smart multi-lingual readers translate what’s going on in this clip? It’s the teaser for the show, but I only [...]