27 - DATE NUMBER ONE

Check out the Facebook group for this movie here .

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

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

As the Baltimore, Maryland based filmmaker Armando Valle, after seeing the final/2008 version of Date Number One in Silver Spring, Maryland at Lo-Def/Jackie's Back Room in late May 2008 described the movie in his blog, Date Number One is "a charming, DIY feature romantic-comedy presenting a refreshing, positive outlook on the trials of contemporary dating. A multi-ethnic cast, among them a seductive Indian man, a french-speaking hottie, a curvy blonde seeking a blissful three-way bi-sexual relationship, a Buddhist African-American woman, and a lonely career Ninja seek love in the modern city. The episodic film, completed through a long period by Ekanayake, exhibits a vibrant 'can do' attitude that's spreading along the world of independent cinema today." From the beginning of the project the goal was to create a D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself or real independent, completely outside of the limitations and control of Hollywood or indiewood) Populist (a film that may be ...

Get all the info. at the brand new LO-DEF Indie Film Screening Event site . Here's the basic info: " The LO-DEF Screening Event & Wild Diner Films presents: 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 new director Sujewa Ekanayake Thu May 22 8 PM FREE The Back Room @ Jackie's http://moviesatjackies.blogspot.com/ 8081 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 Event contact: Sujewa Ekanayake, wilddiner@aol.com , 240-354-3394" Read the rest of the announcement here . Thanks & see ya at the show! - Sujewa

This is not all of them, but some I had up at DIY Filmmaker Sujewa blog for a while, here they are for anyone who is new to this project: Date Number One REVIEWS The Chutry Experiment Hollywood Is Talking GreenCine Daily Boredom at its Boredest Still Lover Date Number One PRESS On Tap 7/07 Cinematical 10/06 IFC.com 9/06 Tom Kipp interview, Seattle, 5/06 indieWIRE 11/05 More links coming next week. - Sujewa

ninja & blind date from story 1 (John Stabb Schroeder & Jewel Greenberg)

"... witty (I particularly like the recurring references to a band's unlikely popularity in Ohio), often inventive (the story in which the first date isn't really the first date at all is particularly well-written and performed) and, even better, airy : characters are given time and space to spell out their views on abortion, Buddhism, quantum physics or the ongoing war in Sri Lanka, 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 Read David's full review of DNO here .

Date Number One, a comedy about several first dates, is made up of 4 different stories: 1 . Start Over: a bout a writer who tries to get back together with his ex-girlfriend 2 . Just Another Ninja Searching For Love: about a ninja who goes on a blind date 3. A Romantic Dinner For 3: about a woman attempting to add a third partner to a romantic relationship 4. The Superdelicious French Lesson: about a first date where a character learns a little bit of French in an unusual way Written, produced, directed, photographed, edited and distributed by Sujewa Ekanayake. Date Number One Copyright 2006 Sujewa Ekanayake/Wild Diner Films

2009 December 2009 screenings at Aeon Logic Art Gallery in Brooklyn, NY 2008 Thu May 22, 8 PM FREE LO-DEF/The Back Room @ Jackie's http://moviesatjackies.blogspot.com/2008/04/lo-def-debut-event-date-number-one-new.html 8801 Georgia Ave Silver Spring, MD 20910 :: previous screenings: 2007 MARCH 2007 screening #13 * March 15 Capital City Microcinema/ Kensington Row Bookshop 3786 Howard Ave., Kensington, MD 20895 301.949.9416 7:30 PM $5 JULY 2007 screenings #14 - 20 a Washington, DC area 1 week run July 12 - 18 Armory Building 3710 Mitchell Street Kensington, MD 20895 :: map 7:30 PM daily $7 * 2006 screening # 1 & 2 THE WORLD PREMIERE Sat May 13, 2006 7* PM & 9 PM, $8 Goethe-Institut 812 7th St., NW Washington, DC 20001 202-289-1200 directions * 7 PM show is a partial benefit (50% of tix sales $s) screening for DC social service org We Are Family * screening # 3 - 7 THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST PREMIERE Fri May 19 - Sun 21 7* PM & 9:30 PM daily $8, $5 for NWFF members, $6 for...

Check out Story 1 (of 4) from Date Number One here .

More links coming soon. In the meantime, check these out: Armando Valle 5/08 On Tap 7/07 Cinematical 10/06 DV Guru 10/06 REVIEW # 4, by filmmaker Amir Motlagh, on Still Lover blog IFC.com story on self-distribution, profiles Date Number One REVIEW # 3 august 06 GreenCine Daily blog GreenCine Daily article on real indie films mentions Date Number One june 13, 2006 REVIEW # 2 may 06 Hollywood Is Talking blog REVIEW # 1! may 06 The Chutry Experiment blog IndieWIRE, 11/2/05, Production Report November '05, "Date Number One" profile The Chutry Experiment, 11/1/05, DC Screens mentions "Date Number One" & distro blog GreenCine Daily blog, 10/16/05, mentions Sujewa Ekanayake, wilddiner.com, and "Date Number One" Still Lover Blog - May 17, 2005 Interview: "Sujewa Ekanayake has ideals, yup, ideals son!" Kensington Gazette (MD) - COVER STORY - April 13, 2005 Edition "Festival Highlights Indie Filmmakers" article about "Date Number On...

* * * Sujewa Ekanayake Photos Copyright 2008 Sujewa Ekanayake/Wild Diner Films Films Recent features: *Brooklyn Fantastic, feature comedy, 2009-2010 (in production as of 12/17/09, to be released in spring 2010) - Producer, Writer, Director, Videographer, Editor, Distributor . *Unlimited Dreamtime (aka The Screening), feature documentary, 2009-2010 (in production as of 12/17/09, to be released in winter 2010) - filmed under 2 Week Film Project guidelines - Producer, Director, Videographer, Editor, Distributor . *Indie Film Blogger Road Trip, feature documentary, 2008 - Producer, Director, Videographer, Editor, Distributor * Date Number One, feature comedy, 2006 (re-cut in 2008 for the DVD release in late February 2009) - Producer, Writer, Director, Videographer, Editor, Distributor * Capital Heartbreak & Sweetness: 17 DC Poets, 1 hour long documentary/performance video featuring DC area poets, 2002 - Director, Videographer, Editor Recent shorts: * Magnus & The Air Quotes Woman...

CAST John Stabb Schroeder Julia Stemper Jennifer Blakemore Shervin Boloorian Dele Williams Steve Lee Kelly Ryan Christine D. Lee Fritz Flad Subodh Samudre Jewel Greenberg Rob Morris CREW Fritz Flad Alex Ramsey Matt Wilmott

Seznec Brothers Shervin Boloorian The Punk Mariachi All-Stars

Date Number One on MySpace

Sujewa Ekanayake Producer, writer, director, & distributor of Date Number One wilddiner@gmail.com

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