Dragon*Con Update: Day 2

Today was a good day. I passed Karen Allen, that's Marion Ravenwood from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the most recent Indiana Jones movie, on the escalators, got a picture with Malcolm McDowell and R2D2, saw Draco Malfoy, and listened to Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) speak at a panel. Been seeing lots of crazy costumes too.

Zombie Hunters had a great screening last night in front of a large audience when it played in front of a very depressing feature film (why the pairing, I'm not sure), and we got a great response this past evening as well. Its great watching this with a large audience and seeing where people laugh and don't laugh. Sometimes its very surprising the reactions we get, but the zombie baby kick still gets the biggest laugh.

I've been trying to upload a few pics, but the website keeps failing every time I attempt to publish. Sorry 'bout that, I'll give it a try again later, but for now, its time to step back out into this crazy world.

--Cbake

Dragon*Con Update 1

Got into town last night at 9:15, found a parking space and started walking toward registration to pick up my badge, which closed at 10:00 pm. Got to that hotel at 9:45 and had some employee tell me I was too late and they were cutting off the line. She was being extremely unhelpful. I walked past her to the Info booth, and no one there knew exactly what was going on, so the told me to check the VIP section.

I didn't know if I was VIP or not (my email wasn't working) but went anyway. Luckily, I was. So I got my badge last night, everything's groovy. Except this morning I found out I'm actually NOT VIP, I just have a 4-day Comp Pass that I had to pick up at VIP. That's disappointing.

Lots of crazy costumes around. Trying to decide whether or not to wait in line to get an expensive picture with certain celebrities...

--Cbake

Dragon*Con, here I come!

A few months ago I submitted the short film I made last year, "Zombie Hunters", to the Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. From what I've been told, Dragon*Con is like the east coast version of Comic-Con, albeit with less studio interference and with more people dressed in crazy costumes.

Well, "Zombie Hunters" got accepted and will have three screenings throughout the weekend. So I got a free pass to the entire Con, and I'm excited. This will be my first Dragon*Con experience, and something tells me I am woefully underprepared for just how intimidating and huge and fun and exciting this will be.

And the list of celebrities in attendance! Here are a few of the ones I'm excited about seeing:

William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
Patrick Stewart
Kate Mulgrew
Brad Dourif
Charisma Carpenter
Malcolm McDowell
Terry Gilliam
Mc Chris
Thomas Dekker
Peter S Beagle
Peter Mayhew
Doug Jones
Doug Bradley
Eric Roberts
Anthony Daniels
Michael Biehn

Needless to say, I can't wait. I'm spending the day running errands and trying to pack and make sure I bring everything that I need. I'll try and update if I ever get the chance to do so, and bring you pictures and interesting experiences. I hope "Zombie Hunters" is well received and that we have a great weekend! I'm sure we will, just looking at the overwhelming schedule of events!

--Cbake