Best 5 Days of September

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Anna Newman

A few photos from the Pacific Pinball Expo, definitely my favorite five days of September!

Charlie Kuttner and I filmed the whole load in, an amazing 2 day transformation of an empty room to a pinball wonderland, and then of course I got to meet and talk to a lot of you, play pinball, see cast and crew members, eat donuts, and screen my films. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the show and to the amazing volunteers of the Pacific Pinball Museum who make the magic happen!

child plays pinball at pacific pinball expo 2012

photo by Charlie Kuttner

pbdg preview screening at pacific pinball expo 2012

photo courtesy Matt Walsh

photo by Charlie Kuttner

And congratulations to Jeri Ellsworth on her 2012 Maker Hero award!

Droid Does Pinball!

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Anna Newman

It’s director Don Starnes’ birthday today, but here at team Pinball Donut Girl, we have a gift for you: a new image by upcoming artist Joy McKemy from the Pinball Donut Girl poster that you can put on your phone or desktop.

Right click and Save Image As to download me!

I hope you are all making plans to come to the Pacific Pinball Expo to see the preview of Pinball Donut Girl on Sept 22. I’ll have copies of the full poster available there, and they will be in the perk package of many of you kind enough to donate to the project.

PBDG Trailer playing at CAX this weekend

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Anna Newman

It’s all come full circle! A year ago this month I shot our first footage for PBDG at California Extreme 2011 with Brian J. Patterson.

And now thanks to your generous support, this weekend we are screening the PBDG trailer at the very same show. I’ll be talking about some of the techniques we used to film inside the AFM playfield to capture the amazing stunt play of Jeri Ellsworth (we got your bang back right here on camera, baby!) and how we worked with the games on set, including blowing up some backglass.

Does a year seem like a long time to make a short film? Maybe so, but I’ve also been working on pinball documentaries about the Visible Pin project at the Pacific Pinball Museum and a second film about Wade Krause, who worked on that game and many others — I’ll be showing excerpts from Wade’s film as well.

Come by and say hi!