Alex Caulfield

#canfilmday is April 16! Watch Golden Delicious in Canada. Go to @cbcgem.bsky.social. It’s free!

We had the same experience this morning 🫠

Today I’ve gotta sit down and note a script today because I’ve literally done everything else in my to do list for the past 2 weeks. Which is how I use dread and procrastination to be productive.

The glamorous world of independent filmmaking sure involves a lot of me eating soup at my desk.

Soup is to food what radio is to telecommunications, and what trains are to transportation.

I’ll take you by next time we do lunch

Did you know the Canadian Internet Archive is in Vancouver?! I accidentally found it one day.

Photo of Pierre Poilievre at some campaign stop today standing behind a podium with the slogan "Boots, Not Suits" written on the podium. Standing behind him, are men in construction hats and orange vests.

Fellow Canadians : Let us please do everything in our power not to elect this absolute dipshit.

The man is a career politician that has never done a day of manual labour in his fucking life and yet he hides behind idiotic slogans like this.

Boo this man at every turn. May he never know peace.

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

Right! Such a sad little reverse psychology trick. Really shows how little they think of the people they say they represent

The first thing I thought when I heard that sound bite was what a pathetic attempt at reverse psychology, but maybe my expectations of humanity are still too high

Kiddo is home sick in bed on this first day of spring break. Our most recent interaction:

*grumpily takes tylenol*
*chugs a bunch of water*
“Can you play all star?”
*song comes on and they roll over with the blanket over their head*

Near-tweendom is weird

evergreen skeet unfortunately

A person with short hair and a retro dad sweater (me) sits in a sound mixing studio with their hand on their chin. In the background the screen has an image of a woman in a kitchen on her phone.

Crying the the club* because we are almost done my movie!

*sound mixing suite

Same

Love this! I’m also trying to be really intentional. Cancelling a lot of my subscriptions and making it harder to just buy things without thinking. Really trying to just buy less over all.

Just realized that I always hear the question “who do you think will win?” Not “who do you want to win?” And people have lots of ego tied up in being right 🫠

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Save the date! My first feature, Golden Delicious, is coming to the CBC on Feb 21st!

#repost • February on CBC Gem: New series, documentaries, Black History Month features, heartwarming love stories, and more! Stream it all this month!

#CBCGem #NewReleases #StreamNow

This led me to learn what GRAUPEL is!

had the same experience but in a screenwriting group/class which blew my mind. they were talking about using it to help with character development

The Southwest Syndrome | Zachariah Webb Delusions of permanent growth still grip the cities of the Southwest. Kyle Paoletta’s new book looks for a cure.

Had a great time talking about AMERICAN OASIS with my pal Zach Webb from @thebaffler.com, a fellow Southwesterner (albeit the Arizona variety) who shares my desire to see the region shake its addiction to the growth-at-all-costs delusion.

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Our doc retired unexpectedly/without warning last year. Very grateful we ended up getting in with someone they referred us to but it’s so stressful. Friends of ours joined a nurse practitioner office and love it. Lmk if you want I can DM you their details.

This reminds me of the little nursery rhyme book I used to read me kiddo “slowly, slowly, very slowly, goes the garden snail. slowly, slowly, very slowly, up the garden rail”

This is the only post to make me snort laugh today. Not sure if I should be proud of that.

I like that every 2-3 years there’s a major news event that causes Mark Zuckerberg to sit down in increasingly bad outfits and somberly talk to the camera saying the company is going to change everything for the worse from the last time they changed everything for the worse

What’s the one filmmaking tip you wish you had known earlier in your career? Let’s share the knowledge! #FilmmakerTips

Really great plan, I think taking action locally and in community is the best way to fight the despair/doomerism/cynicism

Same with scripts and film edits🫠