Happy 2008 Hollerations!

The Diva is back in the House continuing on the journey to REPRESENT the binary stars of the solar system. This year stronger and at warp speed. Named for 2 American stars...Dinah Washington & Dinah Shore. I, Dinah, Daughter of Isis, Daughter of Yemanya, Daughter of Ochun, Daughter of Ruby Mae, Grand Daughter of Olivia Michelle, Great Grand Daughter of Eliza Michelle, youngest sister of Stanley and Connie...Mother of Hasani. I walk the path of light, beauty, and balance. I am a woman of power, of passion and compassion. According to the Myan calendar I am a World Bridger . I am a bridge between cultures, with new ideas and new ways of looking at life through film based on the traditional, the nontraditional as well as the multidimensional ways of viewing and creating people's stories as seen through the lens. I REPRESENT new and innovative ways of seeing the
good intention and the feeling nature of the true, the fun, and the REAL. I am creative. I am innovative. I am a Multi Media Goddess. This is the path I have chosen to walk. Most of all I am EVERYWOMAN. I make pictures come to life on film about discovery without the usual preconceived ideas!

Last year I delved a little deeper into my self discovery as a filmmaker. I went into 2007 not know exactly where I was going. Just couldn't explain it to anyone, especially myself. There are no words for it. I was constantly being asked what was all this filming stuff, what was a 3 minute movie going to do? All the editing all night long, not sleeping during 48 hour film projects, what was going to get me. Often times my answer was "how the heck do I know...sh*t". I'll just have to know when I get there, just as you'll know when you get there. This is what I do. Can You Dig It? Delivering six short independent films online and at least five collaboratives with my crew of independent filmmakers known as It Donned On Me, creating films made in 48 hours...to include being selected by Visa to make a 3 minute narrative film with the IDOM crew, and competing in the (NFC) National Film Challenge, I know for sure that you don't always HAVE to know where you're going in order to get to where you need to be. This is HOW the Sky Becomes the Limit. As a result, in 2007, along with the IDOMers (having the same kind of passion) I became a Nationally Acclaimed Award Winning Filmmaker and it ain't over yet. Just doing what I love and doing it with people of like mindedness. This type of energy is propelling me to soar at higher elevations like the eagle.

One soaring eagle in particular, Melvin Van Peables took flight when he made an 11 minute movie back in the late 60s. Most people don't know about this. Mainstream America laughed and thought he was a big joke. Not the French, they gave him hope because they recognized he was much smarter than all that. They loved his 11 minute movie and actually paid him money and treated him with dignity and respect while all along he had nothing...(that includes food too, y'all). They even asked him to represent them in the U.S. as their French Deligate. (This blew Hollywood and the rest of America away.) Most of us who know of him only know of his feature film in the 70s, "Sweet Sweet Back Badass Song", an avantegarde freaky film which became mainstream. (And his films of more recent times.) But it was that controversal outrageous film that polarized people, thereby creating a new genre known then as Blacksploitation and Soul Cinema.


A Course in Miracles says...
Where do all these differences come from? Certainly they seem to be in the world outside. Yet it is surely the mind that judges what the eyes behold. It is in the sorting out and categorizing activities of the mind that errors in perception enter. And it is here correction must be made. The mind classifies what the body's eyes bring to it according to its preconceived values, judging where each sense datum fits best. What basis could be faultier than this? Unrecognized by itself, it has itself asked to be given what will fit into these categories. And having done so, it concludes that the categories must be true. On this the judgement of all differences rests, because it is on this that judgements of the world depend. Can this confused and senseless "reasoning" be depended on for anything? The body's eyes will continue to see differences. But the mind that has let itself be healed will no longer aknowledge them. --ACIM Manual for Teachers

While I have always admired those peeps who know how to set specific goals down to the "T" and manifest exactly as they planned, I must say that I admire MYSELF for following my own bliss...the unknown...when you do, it's true what they say, stuff just starts showing up.

This year I am flying higher and going deeper into portals and assemblege points as I shine the light on a new and different language in the art of film.

Production of new short films are forever ongoing for me. You'll be seeing improvements and more features on this blog and Itdonnedonme.com as I continue to grow on my own and as I team up with my fellow crew members right before your very eyes. I believe that language is an important element in film. And 2008 will be a great year to watch me craft a new language on film, language that is visual and not just verbal; language that you DO understand especially if you don't speak it. Sometimes words get in the way. Sometimes we don't even need words to get a point across. As a healing transmitter, it is my intention to show new and different ways of communicating with the world through the language of film.

I'd like to end with 2 profound quotes:

Avoid logic and go around common sense. --MELVIN VAN PEABLES

The body's eyes will continue to see differences. But the mind that has let itself be healed will no longer acknowledge them. - A COURSE IN MIRACLES

Thanks for being a part of my journey and the best to all of you.



It's a wrap Double 07...Whad Up 2008!

Out
D2

P.S. For your viewing pleasure I made a short piece as a "Birthday Tribute" to my mentor Evan Donn. Here you get a glance of me with my It Donned On Me Crew Members, the faces behind our Award Winning Movies made for the 48 Film Projects and the National Film Challenge.