Flight Patterns and Color Corrections

I guess no one really reads this blog anymore (my fault! no updates in over a month!) But here goes with the latest news from the B to the Erlin.

I was supposed to come back stateside on July 31st. That would have been in time to see Gabe and Koali off on there Honduran teaching adventure and see Alice near the bursting point with my little as-yet-unnamed godson. With theknowledgist leaving this fall as well, there were plenty of reasons to come home. But it just didn't feel like time yet I suppose.

Currently I've got a ticket for September 10th. Thankfully, STA, the Student Travel Agency has pretty friendly ticket change policies. I can extend my ticket for up to a year from my the first leg of my trip's commencement. So that means I could push it all the way back to March 12, 2008. And at the moment I have a student visa that's valid until mid-March as well. Things could work out so that I stay here that long. You might be curious about how I can stay for so long without working. I haven't had a real job since January 21st and I haven't worked one bit here in Deutschland - that is until the past few weeks.

Biking on Skalitzer Strasse to meet a friendly German production manager about digitizing some footage for a personal project of hers, I ran into my friend Samara. She's Canadian and we bonded in Rostock because we both really like Sarah Polly.
Samara also edited the pink balloon protest video that I've linked to. So, long story short, Samara had was working as production assistant on a just-wrapped American feature film shoot. And here I entered, ostensibly to save the day and edit it on a super low budget.

I've basically finished the teaser for the film through these last 2 weeks with the writer/director/producer at my side. Good times. I'll post it here as soon as it finished and web viewable.

She just left and things are up in the air at the moment. It seems like she wants this other dude, Xavier, to edit it because he's based in Berlin permanently and has access to some color correction and other facilities through connections that I just don't have here. So that's lame. But perhaps he's a better fit to finish the film. The Berlinale submission date is the end of October, but the filmmaker wants to continue making edits and changes up until the mid-February Berlinale kick-off. Initially I felt like sticking around until the end of October was a stretch, but a stretch I was willing to make. But February? A winter in Berlin? I'm not sure I can commit to staying here that long, especially with the relatively small amount of money she can pony up.

So...what do I do? Stick around, push through the money problems and finish this movie? Or go back to Portland, regroup and get my post-production on there?

Granted, the question is more complicated than mere money and work issues, but that's the only laundry I'm willing to air in this forum...