Happy Father's Day is now legal!

My first feature film, Happy Father's Day is now a legal entity. Fourteen days to go before the launch of my $3.2 million Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.

"You like me! You really like me!"

My apologies to Sally Fields for borrowing a line from her Academy Award acceptance speech, but I just received a rare 'thumbs up' from the LA and UK screenplay consulting company Shore Scripts.

Shore receives hundreds of scripts a year. In the conclusion of their five page Coverage Report of the script for my first feature film, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY: A TRAGEDY, their industry reader said, "While some elements of this script would use further work, overall, it was an engaging read."

FB:  Shore Scripts

Emma Thompson and me

Wow! Last night I chatted with one of my favourite actresses EMMA THOMPSON who was in Toronto to help with Greenpeace's campaign to STOP SEISMIC BLASTING in the arctic by oil exploration companies.

Please go to the Greenpeace website for more info and perhaps even contribute to this vitally important cause. Mother Nature will thank you #arctichome #savethearctic.
www.arctic-home.greenpeace.org

I also had the chance to mention to her my feature film project FATHER'S DAY as I am hoping that she will sign on as a production partner. 

Negligent parents, taxing pop, Fathers Day: Lane Graves, Philadelphia, Dads binoculars

Orlando alligator attack: charges unlikely for Lane Graves' parents - AL.com

In 'my world' these parents should be arrested, charged, tried and, if convicted, put in jail. Kids are a huge responsibility and if a care-giver - be it a parent, or grandparent, or uncle, or aunt, or daycare worker - fails to protect a child from alligators, or traffic, or disease, or sugary foods, or 'troubled' people - then they should at least be charged with negligence.

The parents of 2 year old Lane Grave's allowed their child to wade in a body of water clearly signed "No swimming" - how much cleared could it be? No swimming means stay out of the water. No doubt Lane's parents will excuse themselves because the sign didn't read "No swimming because there are alligators in the water". And the local sheriff will excuse him or herself from performing their duty because they hold elected positions and arresting the parents of a dead child is likely to lose them votes in the next election.


Philadelphia to bring in 'soda tax' to fight obesity - BBC News

Congrats to the people of Philadelphia who successfully forced a 'sugar levy' on companies that manufacture sugar-filled, carbonated soft drinks. And shame on those same soft drink companies, led by multimillionaire Harold Honickman, for spending millions of dollars to fight for their right to poison Americans.


Dad's binoculars taught us to look deeply at the little things and dream big - Gary Luton, Globe and Mail

In advance of Father's Day I thought I share with you a lovely tribute to fathers.