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Sunday, September 25th

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Be there, or be square! LOL. I will be arriving in LA tomorrow evening. Please contact me using the onewayoutfilm@gmail.com address if you need to get in touch with me. Again, the phone number and address have been removed from this image due to the need to weed out spammers, but I will respond to legit emails immediately. Have a great weekend, everyone!

LA, Here I Come!

Okay, a miracle occurred and I was able to arrange for a flight to LA. I booked my trip for some extra days so that I could (hopefully) set up some job interviews. My only problem will be getting around as a rental car costs about $250 and cabs are outrageous. If you’re in the area and could help me get around, I’d definitely appreciate it. For that matter, if you’re in the area and would like to meet up with me, let me know! I am staying at my friend Carla Blair’s place. She is a filmmaker, also. Unfortunately, she is currently in New York filming and I will have to miss seeing her. Due to this, I greatly appreciate her boyfriend, whom I’ve never met, being so incredibly cool with letting me stay there the entire time I’m visiting. This is one of the reasons I had such a great year the last year I was at school. Communications people just are awesome and incredibly willing to help each other out. I’ve already met some great people—hi Michael, JD, Matt, Declan, Tom (you really need to get email and a site since you’re one hell of a lighting expert) & John!—and I’ve barely gotten involved with things in this field. I’m looking forward to meeting lots more people like this. Also, in addition to being able to attend my own premiere (on my birthday, how cool is that?), I will finally get to meet Michael Dean. It seems we’re going to hang out and watch his Selby documentary together. That will be a blast! Finally, I plan to do some things for the latest documentary that I am currently in the early stages of putting together. I will post more on that after my trip.

Below is the modified version of the flyer I made to announce my trip. I recently discovered Microsoft Publisher and I’m addicted. LOL. I have removed my phone number because several spammers have felt the need to post “comments” on this site to get people to look at their spam. FYI to said spammers: The second I see that crap it’s gone. You’re just wasting your time and my friend, Mike, is more than happy to block your IP’s for me. Incase you’re confused, let me set the record straight: (1) I’m a female so I don’t need your Viagra, Cialis, or whatever the hell that stuff is that “Bob” takes for “his little friend” (you’ve all seen the ads, people). (2) I could care less about owning a Rolex. Labels mean nothing to me and you’re not going to be able to influence me with one. If the watch doesn’t have some fantastic artwork, and a bit of the sense of the macabre, I’m not interested. ;) (3) I already know I’ve won the Nigerian lottery. I am expecting Miss Cleo to deposit that $25 million into my bank account any day know. & (4) I’m sure that you do have a “hot, new stock” for me to “invest in immediately,” but I prefer to keep investing in my old, reliable, daily supplies of Diet Coke and chocolate. I think that about covers it! If you are a potential employer, and would like to set up an interview, feel free to email me at onewayoutfilm@gmail.com. From there, I can provide you with the necessary contact information. Also, the paypal account I set up is still good, incase anyone would like to contribute to a cab ride, or two. The temp job I’ve been working ends this week and I will be hurting for money for this trip. If not, that’s cool, too. I understand that you have to buy gas for your own automobile and it seems that you need to take out a 2nd mortgage to be able to afford it these days?

Can Anyone Put Me On A Jet Plane?

Okay, I want to stress that I am only posting this because I have had several people encourage me to do so. They would help me out, but their funding is limited. As I’ve mentioned, my documentary will premiere in LA on September 25th (aka: my birthday). I’ve got a place to stay if I go, I’m currently in Illinois, but I have no funding for the plane ticket. The last time I checked they were running about $300-400. When I graduated in May, I was forced to lose my job because of it being classified as a work-study position. This also meant I was not eligible for unemployment. Ever since then I’ve been looking for a job in my field, but one has not come along. This means that money for a round trip ticket to LA won’t come along in time. When I mentioned this to some friends, they asked if I had a paypal account. I do, so they said to set it up to take donations. After much reluctance at the idea of what is essentially cyber-begging, I did. I am now set up to take donations and am asking if anyone would be able to help me get to my own premiere. Again, I don’t like asking for this sort of help, especially at a time when thousands of people have homes underwater, but time is running out. If you can help, please click the paypal link below. Thank you all for reading this and have a great Labor Day!

Premiere Location & Link To Buy Tickets!

Okay, here are the details of my documentary premiere:

It will play at 10:10pm on September 25th, 2005. The premiere will be at the following location:

FAIRFAX LAEMMLE
7907 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90048-4501

Tickets are $10.00 each and can be purchased by clicking the following link.

Click to buy tickets!

Synopsis Of My Documentary, "One Way Out"

Okay, here is the 250-word synopsis I wrote for my documentary. I set up an email account for the film, so that you can all contact me with any other questions you might have. Write me at onewayoutfilm@gmail.com to do so. I will be posting lots more information over the next few days, so keep checking back! In the meantime, here is my synopsis:

"One Way Out" is an 18-minute documentary short by Morgan Kathleen Giles and Erin Sarsfield. This short began as an exploration of the events surrounding the 2003 disappearance of Adrian “Art” Ewald. The filmmakers interviewed his wife and that interview led to a shift in direction for the piece. This new shift in direction caused the filmmakers to rework the latter part of the short into a study of depression and how depression related to Mr. Ewald and the reasons for his disappearance. In addition, Detective Sergeant Glenn Gustafson, who was the primary investigative officer on Mr. Ewald’s case, is interviewed and he talks about how missing persons cases are handled, more specifically, how Mr. Ewald’s case was handled. Detective Gustafson was granted full permission by Mr. Ewald’s wife, Christine, to speak of his initial thoughts on what had happened to Mr. Ewald when he disappeared. Finally, Professor Peter Guiterrez is interviewed to give the short its professional viewpoint on depression.

Sad News Has Caused A Posting Delay

Hi all! I mentioned that I would be updating this site with all the information about my documentary, One Way Out, and its Los Angeles premiere on September 25th. I will be doing so tomorrow afternoon. I want to apologize for the delay, but explain its reason. This past Saturday, a fellow professor friend of my fathers, fell outside his home. He was flown to a hospital in Rockford and listed in critical condition. This lingered on for days and we found out he had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage right before his fall. The hospital did everything they could, but Gustaaf passed away at 6:15 Thursday night. The English department (at NIU) has had a table-length sheet of paper, entitled “Why We Love Gustaaf,” up since his fall. This sheet is for everyone to sign. Late this afternoon, I borrowed my neighbor’s digital camera and ran over to take pictures of all the signatures for a memory book I plan to make for Gustaaf’s family. I went back to my neighbor’s and got them off the camera so that I could photoshop the ones I needed to. All of this took time (I took 169 pictures) and that is why I am delaying the post I promised until tomorrow. In the meantime, I would like to say that this is a devastating loss to anyone who ever met Gustaaf. He was a wonderful man, a great friend to my parents, and he will be missed in an immeasurable capacity.

In addition, I want to say that it has been devastating to watch what happened to the city I love: New Orleans. My thoughts are with everyone there and I hope it, and all its citizens, recover as quickly as possible. I am so glad I got to see it twice before this happened. It was simply amazing and I know it will be again.