Sundance Update: Adam Elliot video letters

Hello, I'm up here at Sundance. Tis fun. The Sundance folks decided to do a "video letter" exchange between Academy - Award winning filmmaker Adam Elliot and I. Adam has a feature stopmotion film at Sundance, which opened the festival. The film is about two people, a man and a little girl, who are pen - pals. So Adam and I sent these video letters back and forth to each other prior to the festival, sort of mimicking the theme of his film, then they recorded us meeting for the first time at the festival.

Interesting idea! And it was fun. Adam is a very nice fellow. Here's links to the videos... check em' out! The first ones were a bit akward, but as we got further into the "letters" we loosened up a bit, they actually get pretty funny. There's some further insight into both of our films, as well.

Part 01

Part 02


To see the unedited versions of our "video letters" click here! They are about 2 minutes each.

Also, I'm not doing any 3 - word movie review while at Sundance... too many movies here! Maybe will review some later. Have fun, comrades...

Watch my film on itunes!

Watch "I live in the Woods!" on itunes for free, for the duration of the Sundance film festival! Check it out below... clicky clicky.

Also... review it, if you wish!

More weird ebay finds

I have recently deemed myself and ebay search guru. Basically I sometimes spend way to much time scrounging on ebay finding bizarre things, that are usually too expensive for me to buy, but fun to look at. Here's some recent discoveries...

Licorice Box

Russian Wind-Up toy

Pirate and Tiger-Thing mugs


Wind-Up Scary German Baby


Black Chef buddies


There's plenty more where these came from. Some are still for sale by the way... Don't get bit by the ebay bug, though. Snap...

I actually recently bought a set of audio cassette tapes by my favorite commercial evangelical preacher, Bob Larson. Which may soon be the subject of my next "Precious Joke" podcast... stay tuned.

3-word movie review:
The Shining
PACED, VISCERAL, VORTEX

Woods at Sundance 09!

"I Live in the Woods" has been invited to show at the Sundance 2009 film festival!

3 - word movie review:
Bolt (3d)
HAZE, SIMILAR, PIGEONY

New WOODS page!

Hey, I know i've posted a lot about my film "I live in the Woods" on this blog... but there's more news about it. I now have a page on my website for the film. It has all kinds of cool stuff, including a bunch of "making of" pictures with descriptions. FUN!

Also, here is a video I put together of time-lapse footage I shot of myself animating while making the film.


I live in the Woods TIME LAPSE! from Max Winston on Vimeo.

In other film news... "I live in the Woods" recently won the "best international short" award at the Toronto After Dark film festival! That was awesome. Too bad I wasn't there. See yeh.

Oh, also, my film now has an IMDB page. Official! See it here.

3 - word movie review:
Starcrash
TOTALLY FREAKING BIZARRE