{"id":8804,"date":"2024-06-14T07:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T13:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2024-06-13T16:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T22:14:43","slug":"waldrop-wins-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2024\/06\/14\/waldrop-wins-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Waldrop Wins One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>VERY<\/strong><\/em> pleased to announce that MARY MARGARET ROAD-GRADER, the second of the Howard Waldrop shorts we&#8217;ve produced, kicked ass and took names at its world premiere, taking home the honors as Best Indigenous Short at the deadCenter Film Festival in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8806\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/poster6-695x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/poster6-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/poster6-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/poster6-768x1132.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/poster6-1042x1536.jpg 1042w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/poster6.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steven Paul Judd and Elias Gallegos represented the Fevre River Packet Company and Lumenscape Productions at the festival, while Taylor Church attended on behalf of Trioscope.\u00a0\u00a0 Elias also played the part of Simon Red Bulldozer.\u00a0 Steven directed the film from his own screenplay, a lovely (and faithful) adaptation of Howard&#8217;s classic short story.\u00a0\u00a0 Crystle Lightning starred as Mary Margaret herself, and Martin Sensemeier as Billy-Bob Chevrolet.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, we lost Howard in January, but he was there in spirit&#8230; and also on celluloid, sitting into for a brief cameo appearance in a council scene.\u00a0 I like to think he would have been proud of us.\u00a0 I do know he liked the movie; were able to screen it for him in the week before his death.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8807\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0230-1024x760.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0230-1024x760.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0230-300x223.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0230-768x570.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0230-1536x1140.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0230-2048x1521.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0230-166x124.jpeg 166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8808\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/deadCenter-821x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"821\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/deadCenter-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/deadCenter-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/deadCenter-768x958.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/deadCenter.jpg 1145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full list of all the deadCenter winners for 2024:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BR67SVZQOk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/freepressokc.com\/here-are-the-2024-deadcenter-film-festival-award-winners\/\">Here are the 2024 deadCenter Film Festival award winners!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Here are the 2024 deadCenter Film Festival award winners!&#8221; &#8212; Oklahoma City Free Press\" src=\"https:\/\/freepressokc.com\/here-are-the-2024-deadcenter-film-festival-award-winners\/embed\/#?secret=ASgj4dTzTv#?secret=BR67SVZQOk\" data-secret=\"BR67SVZQOk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For all you Waldrop fans who couldn&#8217;t make it to Oklahoma City last weekend, hang in there&#8230; we&#8217;re sending MARY MARGARET out on the\u00a0 circuit, and have her on submission at another dozen festivals around the country and the world.\u00a0 I will be sure to let you know when and where the movie will be appearing next.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re not done yet.\u00a0\u00a0 We&#8217;re almost done with post on THE UGLY CHICKENS, and Howard Hamster and his own gang will be along after that.\u00a0\u00a0 Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VERY pleased to announce that MARY MARGARET ROAD-GRADER, the second of the Howard Waldrop shorts we&#8217;ve produced, kicked ass and took names at its world premiere, taking home the honors as Best Indigenous Short at the deadCenter Film Festival in Oklahoma City. 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