*fall screenings*

With the generous support of The Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, The Peace Corps, and RPCVs Brooke and Tom Nagle, we had an incredibly successful screening at the LGBT Center in San Francisco this past August; Thing With No Name played to an audience of over 150 people, a standing room only crowd that raised funds for The Mpilonhle Project and Philakahle, two fantastic organizations that serve the mountainous regions of KwaZulu Natal. We were fortunate enough to coincide the screening just following the World AIDS Conference in Mexico City this year, and to have Nomsa and Mpume from The Mpilonhle Project there to take questions from the crowd. We'd met Brooke and Tom at the last screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival, who had volunteered for two years in Okhahlamba and had driven up from San Diego to see the film; we are too fortunate to have crossed paths with these great activists.

If you are in the area, come wish me a happy birthday and join us at the Woodstock Film Festival (Oct 4+5) and The Starz Denver Film Festival in November (screenings TBA, though we will be present Nov. 15+16th). We're extremely grateful to have participated in many great festivals (and met many invaluable friends) this year, and excited for more...I've fallen behind on the postings since moving to Santa Cruz, where I'm busy beginning my masters/the next film; I'm thrilled to begin collaborating with a number of notable documentarians and overall veterans of the independent film world, but just concentrating in this pretty place is proving to be the biggest challenge so far...