The Many Faces of Julia McAlee © 2009

I wish I could say I’ve been busy shooting guns but… well, that’s just not true.

I have, however, been busy doing a bunch of other stuff… (including some other kinds of shooting)…

We finished shooting the feature film I was working on (tentatively titled “Land of the Lost” – but I really hope that Zach calls it something else because… a movie with that title just came out this past summer…starring Will Ferrell… and our movie is not that movie) a while ago… wow!  My first feature finished!  Awesome!  (Well actualy…. technically it’s not really my first feature; I was in Phillip Roebuck’s “Shaniko” a couple years ago… my head was shaved at the time and I wore some bright colored wigs and played the stripper who snorts blow backstage at the club… you know that girl… but.  It was a rather small role and this one was much more substantial.)

So that’s a great feat.  It was really fun, stressful and frustrating at times, and a great experience.  We knew what would happen for each scene, but with all improvised dialogue.  All the people involved were great.  Now it’s out of my hands and in editing, gonna be submitted to some film festivals.  I just hope it turns out well!  :)

I also moved on Sept 1, which took a bit of time and energy.

I’ve also been volunteering at Radio8Ball each Wednesday for a little while, being a sacred usher, which means I hang out and help out and hold space for the show.  It’s really fun; the last show for a couple months is this upcoming Wednesday with the Moore Brothers.

The photo above is from a sweet modeling gig I did recently.  It was for a pro flash photography workshop that Neil van Niekerk came to Seattle to do.  It was really great, Neil is really awesome and fun and a great photographer; the other model was really cool, and the photographers taking the workshop were super cool.  I had fun thrashing around on the floor and having a bunch of people photograph it.

Neil wrote this on his blog, I thought it was funny: “As for the wild child Julia sprawled there on the ground .. um, yeah .. that’s all Julia.  No direction needed!”

Zach Weintraub, the writer/director/actor who made the feature film I just finished shooting (I’m still going to say TENTATIVELY TITLED “Land of the Lost”), was awesome in helping me shoot something for my reel.  I got permission to do a scene from Mark Stein’s really cool play “Mating Dance of the Werewolf,” and acted in it with my manager/friend Andras Jones.  Big thanks to Luc Heüer too, for coming out to use his mad skills to help with sound!

So, Zach is going to edit my reel for me; it should have stuff from “Mating Dance of the Werewolf,” from “Land of the Lost” (tentatively titled), and from “Kristi 18.”  I’ve also been stalking out some other people who have other films that I’ve done… so hopefully I’ll get some other clips as well.  (Stephanie Lou Hauge!  Phillip Roebuck!)

Yes, lots of my energy lately has been been devoted to stalking people out, and trying to organize scheduling stuff… I have some other film projects and such coming up, so check back to find out what’s goin on!

This weekend I’m going to participate in the Landmark Forum.  I’ve heard it’s really amazing, lots of people say life changing!  We’ll see.  Which reminds me, I have to be there at 9am and it’s about quarter past eleven.  So I should peace out.

Ohhhhhh.  And I’m going to LA in October for a week.  To survey the scene.  And then plan to go in November, and stay for a few months.  Y’know, skip the rainy Seattle winter.  Check it out.  Audition.  See what happens.  Who knows?