Finding the Right Suit

Here’s the big question:

When presenting at a film festival in the Bay Area, what’s the proper attire for the official Webmaster/Troublemaker, Man of Innumerable Hats? For the behind-the-scenes hombre, should it be a kind of hyper-masculine, Hemingway looking collared shirt with scruff accompanied with a look of boredom and/or casual disdain? Or, should the dude just buy a suit? BenT (said Troublemaker and amazing mixer of drinks) and I (the one who wrote and produced the film and who’s already bought her hair accoutrements, thank you very much) are arguing. See below. I’ll let you know when he figures out what the hell he’s wearing.suit

Zero Tolerance

We appealed the Facebook decision on our ad campaign, and this is the response we got back. Apparently, even medical cross-section illustrations are verboten on FB!

 

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Thanks for writing in.

Your ad wasn’t approved because the video being used in it doesn’t comply with our Adult Products Policy.

We don’t allow ads that show nude images/videos (ex: medical diagrams, memes, tattoos on someone’s breasts/bottom, breast surgeries, nude art, breastfeeding with nipple showing). Such ads lead to negative user sentiment and we have zero tolerance towards such advertisements. This policy applies even if your ad is targeted to an 18+ audience.

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Questions of Heat and Unknowing

So, in trying to get the elevator speech and the trailer down for Gooogled, the short film that ends with a shot of my boy with Down Syndrome, I came up with the fact that it’s the questions in our lives that define us, not the answers. We carve ourselves with the questions. They are our mantras, our rosary beads.

Here’s what I came up with for the elevator speech. Imagine yourself getting on the third floor. The doors open and you walk in. The doors close. I have one minute or less to tell you why I spent all my money to make this film. I have thirty seconds to try to convince you it matters. I have ten to remind myself that heat, humility and the love of my boy is all I have. Humility and the heart. It’s what I want to give to you.

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The Elevator Speech:

The film begins one night when I’m researching. I’m in front of my computer and I type in a question. And then it happens – something that I know has happened to you—before I finish the question, Google’s predictive algorithm, the Google oracle algorithm finishes the questions for me. There are four –apparently the questions determined to be the most haunting, the most fevered, the most in need of answering by me and my culture at that very distinct ,thin slice of time. So, the film begins to question what these questions say about us. And what happens when we really sit in the heat of our own questions. This is the film: The question that I landed on—because it’s the question that had no answer. Because like all questions that have no answer, this is that one that cracked my heart.