grabbing a quick picture with the visionary writer/director of the Cannes Palme D'or winning Fjord, Cristian Mungiu, after last night's screening & Q&A at USC...LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this truly transcendent, darkly comic masterpiece, my new choice for best international feature, narrowly edging out Possible Love, primarily because Fjord is a more challenging film, by humanizing both sides of a very polarizing conflict, whereas Possible Love has more clearly defined heroes & villai

hanging out with Lisa Ling, after she moderated the Q&A for the powerful, deeply moving, surprisingly comedic, & ultimately inspiring film Take Me Home, a film which inspires not just sympathy-from-afar, but empathy-with-one-another...& is ESPECIALLY refreshing in the realm of disability and adoptee representation, for as an adoptee, I felt very SEEN while watching this film, as its themes resonate very closely with many of the themes of my debut memoir Killing Justice, espec

enjoying time with Liz Sargent, writer/director of the powerful, deeply moving, surprisingly comedic, & ultimately inspiring film Take Me Home, as the film inspires not just sympathy-from-afar, but empathy-with-one-another...& is ESPECIALLY refreshing in the realm of disability and adoptee representation, for as an adoptee, I felt very SEEN while watching this film, as its themes resonate very closely with many of the themes of my debut memoir Killing Justice, especially the

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this truly transcendent masterpiece!...now available on Criterion...The debut feature for Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari, it’s both a cine-memoir drawing on her painful childhood experiences (on Vancouver Island, where I too spent most of my childhood years) and an exploration of what it means to present them on screen, just as we are striving to do with our screen adaptation of Killing Justice, currently titled Orphan Rising...https://www.youtube.com/watch

hanging out with my friend & fellow artiste & foster kid Yagki, after her kickass set at Lucky Strike Hollywood last night

doing an artist exchange with my Lebanese Australian foster kid singersongwriter friend Yagki after her kickass headlining set at the Viper Room Thursday...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1cCwtMdUM

hanging out with my fellow adoptee/artiste Kevin at Fat Sal's, after he got a copy of my debut memoir Killing Justice there just now

hanging out with my fellow foster kid, the extraordinary singer/songwriter Yagki, after her kickass set at Bar Lubitsch just now

Hanging out with Yagki, an amazing singersongwriter (& fellow foster kid), after her kickass set as part of the WFNM event this past Wednesday at Hotel Ziggy...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vry3NzCPMec