Happy Birthday Tomás, already!!!!

Poor Tomás.  He has been trying to finish a cue all day, and every time he started getting a nice roll going, the phone rang with a “Happy Birthday” message.  Tomás is working on his birthday, just as he was working on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Eve.  Yes, he got crazy and we went [...]

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Thanksgiving Was…..A Work Day!

Since our 27 year old Volvo has been in the shop a bit longer than anticipated, we did not go up to be with Tomás’s family yesterday.  In fact, the day before, I realized we had precious little food in the house, and all of our neighbors were out.  I decided to walk to the [...]

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From New York back to Pittsburgh – Home Sweet Home

We are back from our wild 12 hours in New York, where “American Dumpling” was warmly received at the Chashama Film Festival, despite it being a small venue, a ten a.m. screening, and a rather damp, drizzly day. Never mind that as we crossed from New Jersey into New York, over the Verrazano Bridge, and [...]

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Off to New York in Five Hours!

Tomas and I are going to New York, to the Chashama Film Festival, where “American Dumpling” has been accepted and is playing on Saturday Morning at 10 a.m.  You can find it in the categories “under $10,000″ and “Society”. We have been turning ourselves inside out to try and figure out the quickest and least [...]

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Goodbye, Great Aunt Millie. You Are Missed.

Tomas’s Great Aunt Millie Novac, died September 29th.  It has taken me this long to write about her because I cannot seem to find the right words. Tomas was very close to her, even though he had not ben living in the same state for over twenty years, until recently.  His birthday is the day [...]

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More Festivals For Dumpling.

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, Dec 24th, 2008 I am happy and frankly, amazed.  ”American Dumpling” director Eileen Nelson is not a fan of the Holiday Season.  She is a native New Yorker, stuck out in perpetually sunny and smoggy Los Angeles, and Christmas just leaves her feeling depressed. When I am depressed, I cannot do [...]

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Mumbai

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, Dec.7th, 2008 Director Aminta Goyel of “The Morning Fog” is from India, and “The Morning Fog” was shot in Mumbai. Tomas and I have been watching the news unfold over the past few weeks with growing horror and sadness, as we recognize some of the places where “The Morning Fog” was [...]

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New Projects, More Festivals For “Dumpling”.

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, Dec.2, 2008 I just received word yesterday that Eileen Nelson, Director of “American Dumpling” has entered it into three more festivals – the Los Angeles Film Festival, the London International Documentary Film Festival, and the AFI Dallas International Film Festival. So, we are entered in numerous festivals, but again, will not [...]

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It is SO nice to be back! “American Dumpling” is still alive!

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, July 20th, 2008 Hello everyone -  I am sorry it has been three months since there has been any movement over here, but life got so nutty that keeping the blog updated was just not possible.  I will talk about it in bits and pieces, information scattered throughout all three blogs, [...]

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Burning up, burning up for the Hard Drive

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, March 15th, 2008 Tomas has been burning files of “American Dumpling” to clear the hard drive. Since CD’s and DVD’s are a little funky, this is quite a task. Concentrate, yes. But – the hard drive is slowly getting cleared off. Good Business. Now he has gone to pay the Household [...]

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