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Trigonis's "Perfekt" (2007)
Jan 1 2009 Happy New Year! Well, I must say 2008 has been a great journey filled with a lot of wondrous projects, newly acquired knowledge, and tight-knit friendships. That said, I’m hoping 2009 is the year that marks the beginning of more great things to come in terms of film and video production, poetry, and the art of life as a whole. And boy, do I have a lot on my plate! A short silent film (Speed Musing) coming soon, an enterprising short film endeavor, a feature-length film proposal for an original sci-fi/fantasy/dark dramedy (yes, that’s a lot of tags!), a plethora of hot new poetry that will hopefully find its way into The New Yorker and Poetry, as well as many other fine and widely read publications and ezines across the globe, and who knows what else is to come from the world of Trigonis? Check back regularly for updates, and have a great 2009!
Trigonis Films is casting for a new short film called SPEED MUSING, the story of an uninspired poet who turns to speed musing (something like speed dating) as a means of inducing the impetus to compose new material. The film is going to be a silent picture shot on Mini DV.
I’m casting the following roles:
- Hostess, mid-20s to early 30s, Caucasian female, tall and sexy
- New Yorker poet, mid-30s, Caucasian male; thinning hair a plus!
- Emo poet, late teens to early 20s, female
- Yappie (Young Angry Poet), mid-20s, African-American male
- A yuppie, late 20s to early 30s, Caucasian male
- Limerick poet, mid-20s, fratboy-type; beer belly a plus!
- Moderator, early 30s, Asian-American female, pretty and sophisticated
- Three publishers, all in their 40s to 50s; 2males, 1 female, all Caucasian
- Old poet, mid-40s to late 60s, a Walt Whitman look-alike, white-bearded and long haired
- A supermodel, mid-20s, tall and slender
- Beat poet, mid-30s, Jack Kerouac-type (“speaking” role)
- Wannabeat poet, mid-30s, Yuppie type (“speaking” role)
- Emily Dickinson
- Edward Lear
- William Shakespeare
There may be some doubling up of roles
by the same actor (which means more screen time!) The film is set to
shoot (tentatively) on Saturday, November 22nd and Sunday,
November 23rd in Jersey City, NJ. Any reshoots (if necessary)
are set for Saturday, December 1st. No pay, but breakfast,
lunch, and a small travel stipend will be provided.
Send headshots and resumes to jtrigonis@gmail.com. In your email, please indicate which character(s)
you are auditioning for. I will contact you shortly thereafter with
information regarding a script reading and other pertinent information
about the project.
So far August has proven to be a great
month with some great news. Three of my films––The Coconut, Perfekt,
and first-time festival selection The Hotel Edwards––have been selected
to screen at the Sexy International Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia.
Also, I’m racking up votes at the Wildsound Film Festival One Page Screenplay Competition for my screenplay Shop
Victoriously! If you haven’t done so already, please check out their website and vote for my quirky little tale.
July 3 2008, Hey everyone, check out the Wildsound One Page Screenplay Competition to see “Shop Victoriously” read aloud by professional actors at http://www.wildsound-
June 20 2008, Well, It has been a crazy two months of festival preparations for “Perfekt” and a great deal of other things. First, I attended the Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado Springs and supported “Perfekt,” and I also went to the Staten Island Film Festival. I’ve only great things to say about the ISFF and its directors Jim and Matt, and truly wonderful things to say about Colorado Springs. Great films. Great food. Great people. Staten Island was also an experience to be remembered.
In other news, my two favorite little shorts have been acquired by Ouat Media for international distribution. “Perfekt” and “The Coconut” will hopefully hit television channels in overseas countries very soon. This is very, very exciting news.
And, my short screenplay “Shop Victoriously,” about two very specific figures battling it out on Ebay for a special prize, has won a spot in the Top Ten (from 30 semifinalists, chosen from over 200 entries) in the Wildsound Film Festival’s One Page Screenplay Competition. “Shop Victoriously” will be read aloud by professional Canadian actors and will be voted on by viewers like you. Stay tuned to find out how you can “Shop Victoriously.”
Apr 1 2008, Well, well, well…a lot’s been happening in the world of Trigonis. First and foremost, the most exciting news by far is that my short film “Perfekt” has been selected to screen at not one, but two film festivals in the coming months. The
first is the Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado Springs, CO. At present, “Perfekt” is the only short film to be screened on Sunday, April 27th alongside a full day of feature-length films in a theater that seats up to 2,000 people. Now that’s exciting! Moreover, I’ll be attending the Indie Spirit Film Festival for “Perfekt” and its Rocky Mountain Premiere. The second festival is the Staten Island Film Festival, which is holding its third annual event during the weekend of June 5th. I will make more information available to anyone who’d like to see “Perfekt” rock the SIFF as soon as that information becomes available to me.
In the screenwriting department, I’ve been exceptionally busy, revising my short “Statuetory” (actually, rewriting is a more accurate term for what I’ve been doing to it), to submit to short screenplay competitions this summer; “ATM,” a quirky, Chaplinesque tale about a girl stuck in an ATM booth and her unlikely savior, is just about finished up and ready for submission
to this month’s Wildsound One Page Screenplay Competition; “Revamped,” my vampire feature, is geared up and ready for a second draft and at one point a read through, so I’ll keep you informed on that front; and then there’s a slightly longer version of “Speed Musing” (my one pager that was a semi-finalist in Wildsound’s October contest) is almost finished and will hopefully be produced and filmed before the end of the summer. AND, my friend and fellow writer Joe Whelski has been hard at work on a draft of a feature-length screenplay based on my short-turned-feature film “Cunnigula” to pitch it to Hollywood producer Andrew Panay (the “Van Wilder” movies and “Wedding Crashers.”) We’ll see what happens.
I’m also in preproduction for a sitcom pilot called “Something About Ryan,” which will be shot the first weekend in June, and I’m in the process of saving up some cash to finally get my own MiniDV camcorder, the highly-regarded Panasonic AG-DVX100B.
With it, I’m hoping to shoot a bunch of short shorts over the summer, as well as a literal “reality show” pilot of my own starring none other than members of my wonderfully off-kilter family. Hey, I’m sure Youtube’ll love it! Check back for more information in the coming months.
And on the poetry front, I’ve been actively working on my latest chapbook “Brokendown US” which I’m hoping will have a video element to it (something new for me in terms of mixing the media of poetry and film.) Also, I have a pamphlet of poetry called “Trenches of the Brokensouled” available for a $2 donation to the “Perfekt” Fund, which supports submissions to film festivals through June, 2008.
That’s all for now. Check back in a month or so to see how all these wonderful things are progressing.
Jan 1 2008, Happy New Year! I’ve got big things planned for this year: Screenplays (shorts, one-pagers, and a feature or two), a short film (maybe two), continued submissions of “Perfekt” to film festivals (until June), a reading of “Revamped,” and a new chapbook of original poetry on the way. Check back regularly for more updated info as 2008 progresses.
Dec 12 2007, After a month of rigorous scribing, I’ve completed a first draft of my latest feature-length screenplay called “Revamped,” about a time traveling vampire who’s too human to suck blood, even for his own survival. I’m hoping to hold a group reading of it sometime in February or March. I’ll keep you updated.
Nov 15 2007, Alas, "Speed Musing" didn't make the cut-off at the Wildsound One Page Screenplay Competition. However, it was awesome just being chosen as a finalist. Needless to say, I'll be writing more and more one-pagers and submitting them to this contest, as well as others.
Also, “Statuetory” didn’t make it into the FirstGlance Short Screenplay Competition. So, I will be making some readjustments to the screenplay and will be submitting it elsewhere. Again, it was a pleasure being a semi-finalist. Good times!
Nov 9 2007, "The Coconut" has been accepted to The First Annual Rockport Film Festival in Corpus Christi, Texas. Nothingman’s little short about a guy, a girl, and a coconut will screen before a documentary feature called "Beyond the Call" and alongside a documentary short called "Shalom Asmara" on Friday, November 9th, at 10pm. Sweet! FOR MORE INFO, click HERE!
Oct 31 2007, just received word that my latest short screenplay "Statuetory" was accepted as a semi-finalist for the FIRSTGLANCE SHORT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION (out of a few hundred, they chose ten semi-finalists, from which they will choose three finalists and one winner. That film will then be produced (up to $7,500), so keep your fingers crossed for my little modern day Pygmalion (with a twist, of course!)
Also, my one page screenplay "Speed Musing," which I wrote in one day (about 6 hours total) specifically for the Wildsound One Page Screenplay Competition, was accepted as one of 30 finalists out of over 200 submissions. Out of the 30 finalists, they will choose ten and read them with a full cast before an audience. Of those ten, one will be produced and made into a one minute film. Keep your fingers crossed!
Oct 23 2007, I've just completed a 30-minute version of "Perfekt," which I actually prefer to the 32-'n-change version. This is basically for the A-List festivals and some B-Listers as well. I should be submitting the first 30-minute version by December
1st to the Seattle International Film Festival, our first A-List venue.
Oct 6 2007, Well, well, well... it seems that my little tale about a guy, a girl, and a coconut has caught a little festival fever. This weekend, "The Coconut," will screen at the INDIE CAN FILM FESTIVAL in beautiful Toronto, Canada. The date is Saturday, October 6th, at 2:30pm at the Innis Town Hall, Room 222. Admission is free, as this is an "art for art's sake" kind of festival, my favorite kind. Things are lookin' up and lookin' good!
Sept 28 2007, "The Coconut” premiers at the inaugural Wildwood by the Sea Film Festival in Wildwood, NJ. This is the first film festival that any of my films have ever been accepted to, so this is a huge deal for me, as well as the boys at Nothingman Productions. So, if you haven't yet taken a vacation (like myself), OR if you have even the slightest inkling to go to the beach on the 28th of September, OR if you just greatly enjoy the cinematic stylings of Trigonis so much that you simply have to be there to show your support, then I urge you to slip a Red Hot Chili Peppers album into your car's CD player, roll down your windows, and drive down to the "Doo Wop Capital of the World," beautiful Wildwood, NJ, and show your support for Nothingman and short independent cinema in general.