27 - DATE NUMBER ONE

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 !

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