by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 24, 2014 | Filmmaking, Journal
That’s what we’ve heard a lot of around here as of late. It is an incredible moment as a writer to see the characters one has dreamed up and created come to life. There they are! View more photographs on our Facebook page, and check out the cast and crew...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 15, 2013 | Filmmaking, Satire, World Views
Are you ready for this? Investigative blogger Virtus Coolidge thinks little of the flash drive given to him by new media mogul Andrew Romans until Romans’ sudden death. Virtus discovers he has inherited a mysterious list that intertwines the fate of his friends and...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Aug 17, 2013 | Comedy, Filmmaking, Journal
About that whole interested-in-filmmaking talk I’ve been rambling on for the past half a decade…Well, it’s finally being realized. Matthew Perdie moved to Alabama, and has temporarily taken up residence in the Fair Hills Farm Guest House as a live-in...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 19, 2013 | Fair Hills Farm, Filmmaking, Journal
On March 9th, my Term III 2013 at Troy ended and Matthew Perdie arrived for a brainstorming visit. After helping us set up our new green screen and lights… …Matthew and I got to work planning our first web series… Such a creative day at Fair Hills...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 22, 2013 | Comedy, Dramatizing History, Filmmaking, Journal, Politics
Eight years ago, my sister Rachel and I made a cassette tape about George Washington for fun (yes, this is what teenage Read girls did for fun…in the era when I made a portrait of George Washington the desktop background on our computer). We organized a...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jan 15, 2013 | Dramatizing History, Filmmaking, Politics, World Views
Our languishing culture is made up of individuals, not a collective mass audience. Most of them are blasé, complacent individuals. To simply confront them with holier-than-thou accusations or rah-rah chants is fruitless. Moral outrage doesn’t make sense to them...