Start Over - Story 1 from Date Number One

Start Over - Date Number One Story 1 from Sujewa Ekanayake on Vimeo.

* Start Over & Date Number One Copyright 2006 Sujewa Ekanayake/Wild Diner Films

Night before Valentines film screening in Brooklyn - DATE NUMBER ONE at Bed-Stuy's Aeon Logic Art Gallery, Fri 2/13, 7 PM

DATE NUMBER ONE

a comedy about several first dates

a film by sujewa ekanayake

Friday, February 13, 7 PM

Aeon Logic Art Gallery

4 Malcolm X Boulevard

(Malcolm X & Broadway, Bed-Stuy,

nearest subway: Kosciuzko Street on the J line, map)

Brooklyn, New York 11221

FREE

light refreshments will be provided

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Event contact: Sujewa Ekanayake, 240-354-3394, wilddiner@aol.com

Website: http://datenumberone08.blogspot.com/

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About Date Number One:

A writer,

A ninja,

A woman who is working on saving the world,

and a guy who works at a bookstore

searching for love in

DATE NUMBER ONE

http://datenumberone08.blogspot.com/

A movie by Sujewa Ekanayake

Date Number One, a comedy about several first dates, is made up of 4 different stories: Story 1 - Start Over, about a writer who tries to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, Story 2 - Just Another Ninja Searching For Love, about a ninja who goes on a blind date (ninja is played by John Stabb Schroeder from the DC punk band G.I.), Story 3 - A Romantic Dinner For 3, about a woman attempting to add a third partner to a romantic relationship, and Story 4 - The Superdelicious French Lesson, about a first date where a character learns a little bit of French in an unusual way. The movie has been discovered to be: "Witty" (GreenCine Daily), "Funny" (The Chutry Experiment), and "Sexy, Sexy, Sexy" (Hollywood Is Talking).

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Starring John Stabb Schroeder, Julia Stemper, Jennifer Blakemore, Shervin Boloorian, Dele Butler (formerly Dele Williams), Steve Lee, Kelly Ham AKA Kelly Ryan, Subodh Samudre, Jewel Greenberg

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Not Rated * 90 Minutes * yummy

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SCREENED AT: Goethe-Institut - Washington, DC (World Premiere, May 2006), Northwest Film Forum - Seattle (May 2006), Capital City Microcinema - Kensington, MD (June, October 2006 & March 2007), Sangha - Takoma Park, MD (July 2006), Pioneer Theater, New York City (August 2006), Warehouse Screening Room - Washington, DC (November 2006), The Armory - Kensinton, MD (July 2007), Jackie's - Silver Spring, MD (May 2008).

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"The film is about as charming as they come...presents a world in which cultures don't clash, they mesh. It's refreshing to see characters who all appear to have a natural optimism, as opposed to the typical indie-film predilection for bitterness and cruelty. "- Michael Tully, Rotterdam & SXSW film festivals selected filmmaker & indieWIRE blogger http://blogs.indiewire.com/tully/archives/010529.html

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"I found the characters and the premise sexy, sexy, sexy."- Jerry Brewington, Hollywood Is Talking blog, on Story 3 of Date Number One http://hollywoodistalking.com/Blog/508/

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"...witty...often inventive...and, even better, airy: characters are given time and space to spell out their views...views that never bear the artificial markings of a Hollywood screenwriter's compulsion to reduce them to sound-bites."- David Hudson, Editor, GreenCine Daily blog http://daily.greencine.com/archives/002353.html

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"FIVE really entertaining, fully realized romantic interludes...a shamefully rare achievement"- Tom Kipp, Seattle audience member,former film reviewer for Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger http://diyfilmmaker.blogspot.com/2006/05/interview-with-seattle-audience-member.html

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"Heartfelt...poignant...I loved it!"- Jon Moritsugu, award winning filmmaker

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"...somehow, someway, in the end, the love of the characters, the positiveness of the film, and Sujewa’s disregard for conventions wins you over. The act of making this film wins you over. There is only a positive through line in this film, and that is rare to see, especially when dealing with characters in their late to early thirties."- Amir Motlagh, director of the popular '04 Atom Films' short Still Lover & upcoming feature Whale

http://stilllover.blogspot.com/2006/10/date-number-one-review.html

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"Date Number One is quite funny...twentysomethings and occasional thirtysomethings looking for romance recall Richard Linklater's philosopher slackers and Jim Jarmusch's minimalist attention to conversation...also a subtle, thoughtful film...might be understood as the anti-Crash depiction of life in the city...depicts a comfortably multi-ethnic community...I'd happily recommend it."- Chuck Tryon, media professor & blogger,The Chutry Experiment blog http://chutry.wordherders.net/archives/005873.html

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Date Number One website & blog:

http://datenumberone08.blogspot.com/

Wild Diner Films: http://www.wilddiner.com/

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!Thanks!

Sujewa on The Obenson Report podcast on Mon 2/9

I will be one of the guests on The Obenson Report podcast on Mon 2/9 night - show starts at 8 PM (i am on at 8:40 PM). I'll be discussing my new documentary Indie Film Blogger Road Trip (podcast host Tambay Obenson is featured in the doc) & D.I.Y. filmmaking/self-distribution. We'll also talk about Date Number One a bit, I'm sure. Tune in, check it out!

First 4 minutes+ from Story 2 (ninja story) from Date Number One

While we wait for the DVD (early January), let's check out a clip from Date Number One. Here's the official description (from YouTube page) of the clip:

The opening 4:15 minutes from segment 2/Story 2 of Sujewa Ekanayake's 2006 (re-edited in 2008) comedy feature Date Number One. In this scene a ninja buys a gift, in preparation for a blind date, from a local bookstore. Clip features John Stabb Schroeder as the ninja, Subodh Samudre as the bookstore worker, and Rashard Harrison as another customer. For more information on Date Number One, please visit: http://datenumberone08.blogspot.com/. Date Number One Copyright 2004-2008 Sujewa Ekanayake/Wild Diner Films.

And here's the clip (enjoy!):

Date Number One on Facebook

Check out the Facebook group for this movie here.

Princeton Holt's review of Date Number One

NYC filmmaker Princeton Holt checked out the movie & wrote a review, check it out here.

Interviewed at FilmInFocus, Movie City: Washington, DC

Just saw that Focus Features' site Film In Focus published an interview that they did with me several months ago; very cool, check it out.

Also check out the Movie City: Washington, DC section at FilmInFocus; several interesting articles about DC & the movies.

- Sujewa