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Date Number One press & reviews links

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)

GreenCine Daily blog's editor David Hudson on Date Number One

"... 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 .

About

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

Screenings

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

Press

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

About the Writer/Director of Date Number One, Sujewa Ekanayake

* * * 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 & Crew

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

Contact

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