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Okay, anyone who eats must see the film FOOD, INC. Clearly, that means all of us. I watched it a couple of days ago and it is haunting me. In a good way. It's making me reexamine my thoughts and actions around food and I am already making changes in our family's food habits. I am taking immediate action. No more school lunches, no more Coke (which I LOVE), no more factory -farmed meat, which we didn't eat much of anyway, but absolutely NO MORE OF IT. The film is that affecting.

I have been working with a researcher on a proposal for a new documentary project. It's a bit of a documentary spin-off, if you will, ‘cause it has to do with Shakespeare in an unusual setting. Anyways, she and I have been going back and forth on research and proposal writing for about 2 months now. At our last meeting, she asked me, “So how do you know when your proposal is ready?” Great question!

We just went to a Documentary and Reality conference in LA called WestDoc, a great 3-day event full of seminars and meets and greets with funders, programmers, agents, and filmmakers.  All in all, it was an amazing conference, and we plan to go again next year. One of the best things about WestDoc is that we were able to meet one-on-one with a few network programmers. These meetings are gold!

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