My film has been released!

After screening this piece on the film festival circuit for the past few months, and taking home an accolade award, we have finally released Bay Rizz: The Man For You on the web. Check out the film short and the making of film below. For more information visit BayRizz.com

Rachele Richards, filmmaker.
Contact: rachel.lee.richards@gmail.com

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New artwork for the new year

2010 has been off to a lightening paced start. Three months in and I’m overwhelmed with news and new projects, so much so that it’s difficult to write about it. With everything going on it’s been a challenge to update my site and keep things moving here. In attempt to not let December roll around without a new post, I’ve mustered up some time to upload a few recent pieces.

Three new abstract illustrations

Locomotora en la meva ment

Musica Astratta

En vol

These new abstracts are permanently house on my site here: Abstracts
You can see better resolution images here: Doc Rocket on Flickr
Leave some comments and love on my Facebook page too!

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Bay Rizz: The Rescue wins the Audience Choice Award at the Zero Film Festival!!

Galapagos Art Space, DUMBO Brooklyn - The jury and audience award-winners of the 2009 Zero Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony hosted by Rich Hooban, Steven Strauss and Joanna Lai - festival directors. In the audience choice category, Bay Rizz: The Rescue took home the award.

Festival director Rich Hooban presented the award saying, “Every time I see The Rescue I get something else out of it”. Filmmaker Mike Rizzo (aka Mayor Bay Rizz) excitedly accepted saying, “It’s an honor to have been selected in this festival and an even greater honor to win this award having screened amongst such brilliant films”. The Rescue’s audience popularity beat out Polar Bears and Signal from Shore, the winner in Zero’s Los Angeles festival. Both are great films and taking a lead over them is truly something to write home about.

The Zero Film Festival is a unique showcase as it only accepts entries from filmmakers who do

not receive studio backing or funding. Their mission is clear, “Zero Film Festival is dedicated to screening self financed films from filmmakers all over the world. In the age where the majority of festivals are Hollywood marketing campaigns, and even "indie" and "underground" festivals screen financed films, we are here to offer something different. We recognize authentically independent films and filmmakers who take risks and fight the odds to see their visions through.”

I had an opportunity to talk with Mike Rizzo after the ceremony. He was so pleased with his award. “Winning audience choice in a festival like this holds a lot of weight. I guess it’s the recognition of the fact that all of us here made these films out of passion and love for our art. It’s a huge risk to keep swiping that credit card, one that I couldn’t be happier for taking on a night like this!”

Major Kudos to the awesome people at Zero. They get an A+ for supporting Independent filmmakers & giving them a platform to launch their art. And congratulations to Mike Rizzo and the entire cast and crew of Bay Rizz: The Rescue! Keep following your dreams, keep creating films...we can’t wait to see what’s next!

Photos of the Zero Film Festival coming soon!

Contact: Doc Rocket - info@mikerizzoedit.com

www.bayrizz.com ::: www.mikerizzoedit.com

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Zero Film Fest Pics

Check out some pics from the zero film festival here.

The week of excellent film screening was very inspiring.

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Tim Burton at MOMA

I really can't say enough about how excited I am to see Tim Burton's artwork at the NYC Museum of Modern Art. The show is simply titled, "Tim Burton". The curators pulled all sorts of items out of Burton's creepish bag of works and I can't wait to have a look inside. I'll be sure to blog all about it but for now, enjoy this sweet TV spot to get your eyes wet.

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