..OKD Baby..

been busy with all the little projects i have been taking on.. some how i still think im super woman and that all things are possible.. (resulting in me gulping coffee as if its water and chewing on aleve as if it was gum... errrr) but i guess we will see...

but for now.. here's a fun ass article on the recent project i got to work on (act/costume)

cross your fingers and start praying so we can premier at sundance film festival baby!!

One Kine Day – written and directed by Chuck Mitsui - is smoothly rolling along through its final week of filming all on Oahu’s Windward side. The production wraps Friday, Aug. 14…The $1-million indie first created by Mitsui some nine years ago is on schedule, on budget, has brought back to Hawaii some local actors – Julia Nickson and Janel Parrish – to co star in the production while also giving some major breaks to local hopefuls like Nalu Boersma, Sean Reilly, Auriel Rickaud, Ryan Greer, and Naomi Cooper…

Perhaps even more memorable are the smiles and aloha among the crew working on the project – some 50 a day and 99 percent local – who represent some of the most experienced crew talent that Hawaii offers…When you consider that crew salaries for indies are considerably lower than for bigger budget television shows and motion pictures, the ohana attitude on One Kine Day is even more remarkable…Even execs pitched in on duties normally filled by crew. Producer Torry Tukuafuearlier in the week coordinated EPK interviews even holding the boom during an interview with co star Julia Nickson…

“It’s been like a family working on here,” a crew member told Reel Hawaii. “Everyone pitches in to do what needs to be done without being asked….Another veteran crew member said the local workers believe in the story. “It’s a great story, a real one about Hawaii, and told by a local filmmaker. Look around here and you see professional crew at the top of their game in Hawaii. We all came on board because we believe in this and like being really proud of making a film like this”…

Mitsui, an intense director offset by a beguiling smile and affavle personality, said “I wanted to make a film about a side of Hawaii that visitors never see. That’s why we’re shooting all of it on Windward Oahu and in neighborhoods like Waimanalo” and Hawaiian homelands.

For more on set pics and the rest of this article go to Tim Ryan's Reel Hawaii blog...

its one of my new favorite blogs to follow...

hopefully next, i'll get a gig on Jerry Bruckheimer's new episode coming to hawaii...

(please lord o please!! i swear i'll be good...)

pics of me on OKD set coming soon!!!

.. One Kine Day..

i officially booked my first acting gig!!

so the story is, i auditioned a few weeks back for a tiny role in a cool indie film. (yes, i secretly signed with an agent and have been taking acting classes for the past 6 months...) the funny/awkward thing is that i am also interning with them in their costuming dept. my manager/agent called me to tell me about this audition I got for a small indie film... randomly it was the same project. (can you imagine the weirdness when i came in for my audition.. yep...)

im super stoked and even though i have only a few lines, i hope i fulfill their expectations of a young teenage floozy.. hehe (i think have enough past memories that i can bring out my inner flirt).

the best thing of all, the staff is so cool and amazing.. i love my costume designer who has worked on countless films as Morgan Freeman's personal costume designer and who I am secretly begging for her to adopt me as her new love child and take me along everywhere she goes... (desperate? you bet!)

things are looking up and hopefully will open the doors to bigger and better things!!!

below are some "story ads" about the film:

some of the cast consists of:

-Christa B. Allen (Alea) who has been Jennifer Garner's younger self in "13 going on 30" & "Ghost of Girlfriends past".

-Janel Parrish (Leilani) who played Jade in the "Bratz Movie" and also did some episodes on the T.V. Series "Heros"

-Julia Nickson-Soul (Ralsto's Mom) who acted in "Rambo II", episodes of "Power Rangers", "JAG", and a long list more..

not only does the cast have loads of experience but the crew as well... (blue crush, batman, bucket list, etc... ) im beyond stoked right now!