Breaking Silence

Ahhh, finally! Anybody who knows me well knows I don’t do well with secrets. But back in February, Tohubohu Productions made a little video, about which I had to keep my big yap shut. And somehow, I managed to do so. Until today, that is.

NBC just announced the cast for the upcoming show The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. And one of the contestants (Sarah, the 25-year-old event planner) is a coworker of mine. But back in February, of course, she was just another hopeful.

So in a bizarre revisiting of past events — we had previously made an (ultimately unsuccessful) audition video for a prospective contestant on the Donald Trump edition of the show — we got behind the camera for yet another Apprentice audition.

Only this time, the contestant made it.

Don’t get me wrong — our part in this accomplishment is exceedingly minor; we could have made the greatest video in the world, and it wouldn’t have gotten an unexceptional candidate in the door. But still, it’s nice to feel like we’re progressing just a bit, from merely garnering a follow-up interview before to getting a competition slot.

And I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited at the prospect of potentially seeing even a few frames of our work show up on NBC (or conceivably on the eventual DVD edition of the show).

(Oh, and before anyone asks, I have no idea what happened on the set, or what Martha’s much-debated “catch phrase” will be. Beyond what I’ve just revealed above, I’m as much in the dark as anyone else.)

Tohubohu on the Big Screen

You’ve waited, you’ve wondered... and now here’s your chance to catch not one but all five Tohubohu short films on the big screen.

And as if that’s not enough, you’ll also see award-winning shorts from Gann Films (“Signs,” the Best-of-DC entry in last year’s 48 Hour Film Project) and WIT Films (“Occupational Hazard,” the Best-of-DC entry in this year’s 48HFP), a new short from Burning Toast Productions (“The Real Life: Garden of Eden”), as well as the long-awaited public premiere of the Red Baron/Team Jabberwocky production “Bystander.” Not to mention a stand-up performance by comedian Rory Scovel. And a filmmakers’s Q&A afterward.

It’s all happening as part of the Local Filmmaker and Community Night at the Avalon Theatre on Connecticut Avenue on Wednesday, August 24th. Tickets are just $8.50 apiece — and we’d really like to sell out the house. So if you’re in the area, please come out and see us. Hell, I’ll autograph your... whatever.