1. I'm not actually a chimp.

2. I have a political science BA even though I'm completely apathetic when it comes to politics.

3. I am (was) related to Edward Said.

4. I hate the word "foodie."

5. I am a foodie (for lack of a better word).

6. I slept with the lights on until my first year of university.

7. I once played a racing game in an arcade with John Tesh.

8. I went to film school.

9. I'm abandoning my dreams of becoming a filmmaker and going into law school in September (assuming one will accept me).

10. One of the highlights of my life (recently at least) was actually hiring a steadicam operator for a recent short film I made (which will probably end up being the last film I ever make).

11. The most times I've ever seen a film theatrically was Punch Drunk Love (seven times).

12. I've been playing videogames since the Atari, and would definitely call myself a gamer, though I've probably only finished maybe 20 or so games all the way through.

13. I am way more of an introvert than I'd like to be (ie. I'm distressingly shy).

14. Stanley Kubrick is a god to me.

15. I cannot stand people who use the word "guesstimate".

16. I've only watched three movies at home in the last two months thanks to the humongous time-sink that is World of Warcraft.

17. The first thing I ever downloaded was a picture of Andrew Dice Clay from a BBS. It was mind-blowing.

18. I made my first website, a Duke Nukem 3D fansite, in 1996. You can still see it at the internet archive (http://web.archive.org/web/19981205233542/http://members.aol.com/knusair/duke3d/duke3d.htm).

19. When I first heard about 3D cards, I thought "a card just for 3D graphics? What a ridiculous idea, that'll never fly." I bought my first 3D card (a Monster 3D) a couple of years later.

20. I can't stand watching or playing sports of any kind (even hockey, which means I can never truly be a Canadian, despite being born here and living here all my life).

21. I can't stand the taste of beer (see above, RE: not a real Canadian).

22. My family is Palestinian on both sides, though I rarely tell people that to avoid the inevitable discussions/conflict.

23. I wear a Mickey Mouse watch.

24. I've never been in a fight.

25. I would like to one day travel to every country in the world, with the exception of the super-poor and/or scary ones (ie. I have no real desire to go to, say, Afghanistan).

meh, I didn't know it was a dupe. Thanks for the heads up krono!

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Sorry, but I had to kill yours with the *dupeof command.

Sorry, but I had to kill yours with the *dupeof command.

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by kronosposeidon.

Sorry laek, but ^he's right.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Iran-A-Nation-of-Bloggers-Vancouver-Film-School-VFS

Sorry man this is a dupe, fixing mine now.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Iran-A-Nation-of-Bloggers-Vancouver-Film-School-VFS

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>> ^lighthouse:
play it again sam


Swampgirl's dog?

*canada for Vancouver Film School and *long

To add, youdiejoe and I graduated from the same college: North Carolina School of the Arts (or NCSA). When he was there they hadn't opened the film school yet, so him being a D&P major he never got to experience the "film monkeys", which is what the D&P students called us for some reason. Never figured that one out.

I graduated from the film school in '99. I was part of the third graduating class, so when I started there wasn't even a senior class yet. I was fortunate enough to work beside some really talented people, and even today we help each other out in the industry. Well, I don't have any pull to help anyone out, so the best I've ever done for anyone is crew for them on their film.

Before NCSA, I, too, did a tour of duty in the service. I was Navy like Kronosposeidon. I joined because of the first Desert Storm, though when I finally got into bootcamp in '91, we had already pulled out of Iraq. I was blindly patriotic back then and thought we had a reason to go to war with Iraq. Today I'm a different person. I served for 2 1/2 years and didn't care much for it. Was glad to get out early thanks to Bill Clinton's downsizing.

Oh, and somewhere in there I invented Gobots, Life Cereal and Al Gore, but I didn't think it was important enough to mention again.

>> ^kulpims:
Roman, 34, from Slovenia, ...

How's your cousin Nico doing? Haha, I crack myself up.

Seriously: Michael, 26, from Toronto. I have a BA in political science, and a bit over a year ago I graduated from film school, and have since been struggling (unsuccessfully) to make it in the film industry. I recently decided that it's probably about time to give up on that and go to law school, so I'll probably be doing that in September 2009 unless some miracle happens and I manage to get a feature made. When I'm not wasting time on videosift, I'm wasting time going to the movies or playing video games. And that's pretty much all there is to me, as sad as that is.

Awesome Tymbrwulf. I remember spotting that scream in lots of places after playing Starcraft and then being disappointed that it wasn't the Willhelm Scream.

Also this short movie is stupidly good for a film school project.

Also I walk by this place on the way to school in Paris, it turns out.

Where are the female directors?

There are women in the Senate, women heading studios and busloads of young women emerging from film school. So why are 96 percent of films directed by men?
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/feature/2002/08/27/women_directors/
http://www.moviesbywomen.com/fwg.php

edit:
not (yet) in my top list but at least some of their films were interesting: Karyn Kusama, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Catherine Breillat, Mary Harron