RAISING MONEY FOR A INDEPENDENT FILM

Hello,

It's been awhile since I have posted a blog. I have been busy rebuilding my life. After losing all of my items to theft, I just really did not have the creative spirit to write anything. I have done my soul searching and I cannot allow a group of thieves robbed me of my dream, making films.

I want to movies. I beleive this is my God's given talent. To create stories, that will makes display emotions. This is important to me and I need your help. If you can send a donation to my pay pal account: marlon@marlonreid.com.

I will keep everyone posted.

THE FILM I AM PLANNING TO SHOOT:

ESPIRT DE LE'SCALIER (THE MOMENT YOU KNOW) is a collection of ten short stories that chronicle a pivotal moment in the lives OF ten people who have contracted the HIV virus and how they and their loved ones respond to the devastating news.


The seemingly disconnectedness of each character's story emerges into one socially relevant, thought provoking and emotionally breathtaking film.

ROMEO, a sexually active playboy tries to find religion while awaiting his results during a 20 minute rapid HIV test.

SWEETIE, A distraught single mother receives a letter from the Center Disease Control notifying her she is HIV positive and she drives off to CONFRONT the person responsible.

TALK RADIO, A vengeful Asian woman calls a conservative radio host KNOWN for his condemnation views of HIV positive people and homosexuals. His views are challenged when he finds out the woman has contracted the disease after being raped and is purposely infecting unknowing partners.

HARAN'S ANNOUNCEMENT, A 15 minute segment deals with a young, African-American male and his family's reactions to his announcement over dinner.

THE SCARLET LETTER, Richard Wilson goes to Sao Paulo, Brazil and meets a Brazilian woman during a festival. After having unprotected sex, the next morning he awakes to having something written in Portuguese on his chest, "I have given you Aids." Now, he searches around the village where they met to find her.

SUNSHINE, A 13 year old Hispanic girl born with HIV, raised by her God parents, reaches puberty without the knowledge of her status. She is pursued by the neighborhood high school playboy, who has his own plans for her.

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY PART 1, Olivia Stovall is organizing a surprise birthday party for her husband of 32 years. Those plans are derailed by a letter from the Center of Disease control.

THE BAR: DON'T TOUCH THAT PHONE
A dejected Romeo decides to drink his problems away. Those plans are halted by the arrival of a mysterious woman and a cell phone that keeps on ringing.

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY PART 2, Oliva Confronts her husband Hubert Stovall about the letter from the CDC and both parents are surprised by the announcement from their son, Hubert Jr.

THE VIRGIN
Danya, 21, is vibrant, funny, intelligent girl who is uncomfortable with her sexuality. Barry, 45, has been pursuing her since she was underage and after submitting to his sexual advances, Danya is shocked to find out that he is HIV positive.

Each segment will be shot in a different film/video formats:RED CAMERA, SUPER 16MM, 35MM, MINI DV and FLASH ANIMATION.

So, if you want to send a donation.... PLEASE DO!
ANYTHING WILL HELP.....
PAYPAL ACCT: MARLON@MARLONREID.COM

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THE WHITE LIE

THE WHITE LIE AKA THE BULLSHIT OF BLAMING BLACK PEOPLE!!!!
See, this has happened all of the time during this country's history.
Blame the black man and get the masses riled up!
when it's you (white person: male or female) who did the FUCKING crime.

REMEMBER: BOSTON

Charles Stuart????
This low life killed his pregnant wife. He told police three black thugs mugged him and shot his wife after she did not give up any ass or money.

Boston almost had a riot on it's hands.

Well, I cannot recall the trashy bitch from North Carolina, who was a WELFARE MOTHER (Yes, white people are on welfare too) who drove her four kids into the lake. They drowned and she cried on television saying she was carjacked by a black teen.

Now, I am not saying because I am a black male that people of color do commit crime, but some shyt is wrong and this story goes along with the above samples of the WHITE LIE OF BULLSHIT!


AP
Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story
By JOE MANDAK, Associated Press Writer Joe Mandak, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 23 mins ago
Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, right, AP – Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, right, is buckled into a police …

PITTSBURGH – A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in what she had said was a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.

Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false, said Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department's investigations division. Todd was charged with making a false report to police, and Bryant said police doubted her story from the start.

Dressed in an orange hooded sweat shirt, Todd left police headquarters in handcuffs late Friday and did not respond to questions from reporters. The mark on her face was faded and her left eye was slightly blackened when she arrived in district court.

Todd was awaiting arraignment Friday on the misdemeanor false-report charge, which is punishable by up to two years in prison. She will be housed in a mental health unit at the county jail for her safety and because of "her not insignificant mental health issues," prosecutor Mark Tranquilli said.

Todd initially told investigators she was attempting to use a bank branch ATM on Wednesday night when a 6-foot-4 black man approached her from behind, put a knife blade to her throat and demanded money. She told police she handed the assailant $60 and walked away.

Todd, who is white, told investigators she suspected the man then noticed a John McCain sticker on her car. She said the man punched her in the back of the head, knocked her to the ground and scratched a backward letter "B" into her face with a dull knife.

Police said Todd claimed the man told her that he was going to "teach her a lesson" for supporting the Republican presidential candidate, and that she was going to become a supporter of Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

Todd told police she didn't seek medical attention, but instead went to a friend's apartment nearby and called police about 45 minutes later.

Todd could provide no explanation for why she invented the story, police said. The woman told investigators she believes she cut the "B" onto her own cheek, but did not provide an explanation of how or why and said she doesn't remember doing so, police said.

Police said the woman reported suffering from "mental problems" in the past, and that they do not believe anyone put her up to the act.

Tranquilli said Todd will remain jailed over the weekend pending a psychiatric evaluation, which won't happen until Monday at the earliest.

The Associated Press could not immediately locate Todd's family.

Bryant said somebody charged with making a false report would typically be cited and sent a summons. But because police have concerns about Todd's mental health, they are consulting with the Allegheny County District Attorney.

Todd worked in New York for the College Republican National Committee before moving two weeks ago to Pennsylvania, where her duties included recruiting college students, the committee's executive director, Ethan Eilon, has said.

"We are as upset as anyone to learn of her deceit, Ashley must take full responsibility for her actions," College Republican National Committee spokeswoman Ashley Barbera said in a statement. (UH HUH... SURE YOU ARE)

Police reported Todd's claims Thursday, as a photo of her injuries made it onto numerous blogs and news sites. By Friday, police said they had found inconsistencies in Todd's story. They gave her a lie-detector test, but wouldn't release the polygraph results.

Police interviewed Todd after she contacted police Wednesday night and again on Thursday, Bryant said. They asked her to come back Friday, ostensibly to help police put together a sketch of the man. Instead, detectives began interviewing her.

"They just started talking to her and she just opened up and said she wanted to tell the truth," Bryant said.

Police suspected all along that Todd might not be telling the truth, starting with the fact that the "B" was backward, Bryant said.

"We have robbers here in Pittsburgh, but they don't generally mutilate someone's face like that," Bryant said. "They just take the money and run."

If you have not seen my short film....

Now is the time to view it.....
here's the trailer.

Check it out and let me know if you are interested in seeing the short film.

'Not Surprising' That HIV/AIDS in U.S. Is 'Worse Than Officials Had Expected

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. "from the beginning" has been "wrongly filtered through shifting public and political views that tried to focus blame or susceptibility on populations of people defined by social and demographic factors," physician and columnist Kate Scannell writes in a Contra Costa Times opinion piece. CDC last month "reported that it had significantly underestimated" annual new HIV infections in the U.S., Scannell writes, adding, "In that new infections are occurring disproportionately in our communities of color, the CDC's upwardly revised estimates" of new HIV infections "sound an alarming note." According to Scannell, what is "just as clear is that resources currently dedicated to changing that reality are woefully inadequate and not targeted at the heart of the problem." It is "not surprising" that the country's epidemic is "worse than officials had expected," Scannell writes, adding that the U.S. has become "grimly aware" that the virus "knows no racial boundaries."

The focus on social and demographic factors in the fight against HIV/AIDS "ostracized some communities and it made others feel safe," Scannell writes, adding that the virus "always transcended those overly-convenient stratifications because it was always about the exchange of drug needles, semen, blood, vaginal fluids and breast milk." According to Scannell, "All the while we devised prevention strategies, we should have been crossing demographic divides and focusing on these universal risk factors." She adds, "Behaviors and universal risks ... ought to be the focus so that people can understand and legitimately assess their risk." Scannell concludes that she wonders "how many people might have been spared their HIV infections had they not been under some false impression of safety, swayed by some public message that sacrificed information to politics or ideology" (Scannell, Contra Costa Times, 9/28).

03.06.09

This trailer is so fuckin dope!
I look forward to seeing this film!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/high.html

Hello

It's been awhile and I know what I want to do. I want to direct three short films this summer and fall. I would like to write two more screenplays and sell one. I have decided that I cannot dwell on the past of me losing everything to theft. Yes, it stings because now that I live in Hollywood. I run into actors all of the freaking time but I do not have anything to show them or shoot with.

Maybe, I should fundraise again?

Yes, I will raise 2,000 and shoot a new short.

I still have my Arri lights.... (thanks to the thieves for not wanting to carry the heavy case)

Now, I just need a camera and editing system.

I can raise 2,000.

I know I can.

WAKE UP!

I have been alseep for too long.
Wake up!
I have been asleep for too long.
Wake up, Mr. Reid!
I have been asleep for two long.
Wake up, Marlon Royal Reid!

I have been feeling sorry for myself. I have lost EVERYTHING! I thought I could recover from my losses but it has been very hard. I just finished writing an outline for a new short film and somehow. I will shoot it in August. All I need is one day and night with a group of talented actors and I will do the rest myself.


WAKE UP AND STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF, MR. REID.

IT'S TIME TO CREATE!

LA Times apologizes for Tupac article

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Times has apologized for an article on the 1994 assault on rapper Tupac Shakur that was based on apparently phony documents.

The newspaper's editor and the writer apologized in a story on the paper's Web site late Wednesday for the article that implicates associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs in the attack.

The apologies followed an investigation by Editor Russ Stanton after The Smoking Gun Web site reported that the newspaper had been conned by a prisoner who doctored the documents.

The subjects of the article claimed they had been defamed by the article.

Stanton says the paper will continue its investigation into the documents and the report.

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My Friend Joey

I met this guy, Joey Evans, online a few years ago on www.triggerstreet.com. We gave reviews to each other short films and we kept in contact, talking shop,reaching our goals and dreams. I am very proud of Joey because he went through nasty shyt with his ex wife and other drama but he kept plugging away. This summer his first feature length will be done and ready for the big screen. I am so proud of him. Way to rep Texas my light skin brother!

Way to keep striving.

I am on my grind to make things happen also.


Till next time