Come Fly With Me Nude

After a sold-out work-in-progress screening at the Film Arts Foundation Festival of Independent Cinema, we’ve tweaked the film to near perfection, and it should be finished December 2007. A miraculous feat, given everyone’s load of project and career leaps.

"Back Issues", a short comedy written & directed by CFWMN editor Jonathan Parra and starring many "Come Fly With Me Nude" alumni (Stephen Pawley, Duane Shirmer, Todd Pickering, and Robert Anthony Peters), premiered at the Film Festival at Comic Con (in San Diego) on July 26 this year. Please visit www.myspace.com/backissuesmovie to see pix & learn more.

The composer of the score for the stage and screen versions of "Come Fly With Me Nude", Patrick Bowsher, has been working pretty non-stop in Los Angeles, and for our own selfish reasons we’re hoping his commitment to Hollywood doesn’t become a permanent one.

Todd Pickering and yours truly just finished writing a sitcom pilot based on the feature film "Come Fly With Me Nude" (yes, we are still milking it!), and it’s pretty bleeping funny. It’s no longer the Dom & Bella story; now an ensemble piece Think "Friends" meets "Tales of the City". It’s been entered in the Slamdance/FoxTV pilot teleplay contest, so fingers crossed!

Always remember, it’s better to regret doing something than not doing something. Now get out there and run with scissors!

Diane Karagienakos

You can now view (and rate. And review) the trailer for “Come Fly With Me Nude” on the site for "On The Lot" (http://www.thelot.com), a new filmmaker reality TV show created by Mark Burnett & Steven Spielberg. Which makes me a contender to be a contestant on this show. The thought is mortifying, but as they say, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Even at the risk of loosing all dignity; one must do what one must do.

So please don’t be shy: take a moment to watch, & start talkin’! Click NOW and cast your vote! You’ll have to do some signup / registration stuff, but then you’ll have access to my blog and those of other rising filmmakers… and have insight to the utter crap we talk about! What fun!

Totally unrelated note: a film I acted in this year, "Little Bruno", is off to a tremendous start! It’s gotten into several US festivals, and will be screened at Cannes!!! I’m dying to see the finished project myself; it’s sort of a "Goodfellas" with a little "Friday the 13th" mixed in. Serious.

Thank you, and Happy Holidays!

Cheers–

Diane K.

Offbeat-nik performance artists Dom Casual & Bella Hagen fall into an existential schism between keeping it real or selling out in this story about art, berets, and finding your muse.

View the trailer for the comedy feature film

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