Bazz McClain and I have just locked our latest doc for the city called "Marking Time: The Center of the City" project. This piece documents the creation and installation of two metal plaques marking the geographic center of Albuquerque in 1912, the year of statehood, and 2012, the centennial. Surprisingly, despite the tremendous growth of the city in that time, the centers are merely 1.5 miles apart today.
     The piece features interviews with local historians Ed Boles and Mo Palmer, who give the history of Albuquerque from just prior to the coming of the railroad in the 1880 to present day. I learned a bunch of stuff I didn't know about our fair city. I'm sure you will too. We also interviewed Yami Duarte, the artists who created the markers, and folks from the city who helped find and place the markers.
    The film is scheduled to premiere at 6 pm, Thursday, Oct. 18 at the Special Collections Library on Central Avenue. I'll post more as we get closer to the premiere.

    August was a good month. Signed an option for Dead by Thursday. Followed that up by optioning the movie script and TV pilot for "Duke City," the project we've worked on with Steven Quezada. We have some big name stars looking at both scripts. Hope to strike gold with at least one of them soon.
    Also heard that "Flight Path: The Flyway Project," one of the docs I did for the City of Albuquerque public art program received a nomination for the Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards. Since we're the only nominee, looks like we'll get it. (There were several other nominees in the category, so it's not like we didn't have competition.)
    I worked with photographers and editors Bazz McClain and Blaise Koller on this one. We're very proud of this one. Can't wait to tell the folks in Councilor Dan Lewis' office about the award. If you've seen the piece, you may remember that Lewis tried to kill the piece, unsuccessfully. He was not happy about his portrayal and -- well, we'll talk about it after we receive the award.