Daniel Faltz, one of my former English 40 (1C) students, has been quite successful as a Hass scholar at Berkeley and as a filmmaker at USC. In fact his transfer and grad work has in many ways been a continuation of what he began in 40. He's looking for more support in order to complete his latest project, WEAK SPECIES.--Kleinman
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Not to be confused with Weak Species, the comic book: http://kebapi.com/weak.htm
Issue 1 published December 2007.
I've actually emailed Dan and there should be no problems between us as our respective projects share only the same name.
Dr. Kleinman!
So glad to find out how to reach you, as the contact info I had was for NY. We just wrapped photography and are racing to edit the film together in time for the Sundance deadline. I'm hoping the film will look startling and poetic; very excited to put it in front of audiences.
Feel free to put students in touch if they have questions about film at Cal or USC.
Best,
Dan
I just "witnessed" this atrocity at the Los Angeles Outfest film festival. This movie was so gruesome several people actually fainted at the screening. Literally the worst movie I have ever seen. I left the theater when I realized what direction it was heading. It was violent, degrading but nothing (literally no warning) prepared me for the horror that was depicted in this movie. When I returned to see if the movie was over two people had fainted and were lying on the floor by the entrance of the theater. Paramedics were called. This is no joke and absolutely not an exaggeration. I have no idea why anyone would make such a movie. I cannot begin to communicate how horrifying. To call it disturbing is a ridiculous understatement. People were walking out right and left. Many became irate and were complaining to the Outfest staff that this should movie have had an explicit warning regarding the violence it contains. In fairness to the volunteer staff of Outfest they were all very apologetic. But I can't imagine who screened this and decided to include this in the program.
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