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Mr. Booker lives in the Washington, DC area and spends his days working for a prestigious international law firm. His goal is to eventually escape the rigors of nine-to-five officedom and slip into the long and seemingly endless hours of the artist. His training in literature, law and photography combine to create unique scenarios for film, and his fascination with subculture lends a perspective on the mainstream from without. Mr. Booker did not write this copy.
Press Page News
11.22.04
Nationwide Distribution!!
Inner City Games has picked up nationwide distribution for Life With the Dice Bag.
Ask for it at your local gamestore!
09.16.04
New Downloads!
After playing the new Bandai release, Navia Dratp for an hour and becoming entirely addicted, a friend and I decided to make a fan commercial on a whim. View it on our downloads page!
08.20.04
New Soundbytes From May-Sun!
Special! Listen to an exclusive interview with Mason Booker, Director/Producer/Editor of Life With the Dice Bag and Chris Bowers, "star" of Trailer 1. Discover the magic of how one makes a film for $2,000, as well as the secrets of the crystal. Only found here, on Maysun.org!
ALSO... Hear hilarious outtakes from Life With the Dice Bag that didn't make it into the film -- available on our downloads page.
08.09.04
Life With the Dice Bag has been accepted in GenCon Indy 2004's Fan Film Festival!
GenCon Indy is August 19-22, 2004 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana
Life With the Dice Bag will be shown daily at 11:30 am and 6:30 pm during the convention in Room 209
(times subject to change without notice. Check schedule upon arrival)
It will only be shown once in the morning on Sunday, August 22nd, due to the con closing early.
Boxes for vote submissions will be available so take some time and vote for us!
Thanks!
Note: Due to circumstances beyond our control (like money) we will be unable to attend Gen Con this year -- if you stop by during the con and catch the film and have any questions at all, you can always email us at maysun@maysun.org.
07.08.04
We will be at GAMEFEST MILWAUKEE the weekend of July 9th - 11th with our associates at Hekaforge Productions/Inner City Games. Take advantage of this opportunity to meet Mason Booker, film director and producer and possibly be filmed for a special follow-up!
06.20.04
Thank you to everyone who came to our Sneak Peek Promotional Event!
Our first Life With the Dice Bag event was flawless, thanks to our devoted staff and friends. We were surprised by the excellent turnout, and pleased that people asked such interesting questions at the Q&A!
For those who might have missed the party, pictures are now available here and video is soon to come.
05.30.04
Get a Peek at Life With the Dice Bag at a special preview party with Q&A!
Please join us Saturday, June 19th, 2004 from 1 pm - 3 pm at DREAMWIZARDS!!
This special event will include a partial screening of the film, as well as Q&A session with the director and producer, Mason Booker and appearances by people from the film.
Questions? Please contact us!
Eat! Drink! Be merry and find out more about Life With the Dice Bag!!
Don't know where Dreamwizards is? Click here
05.03.04
The
DVDs have arrived!
Yes, after over a month in the testing process the mastering is finally
done! The DVDs are here ready for YOU! If you would like one E-mail me!
Over the next week I am hoping to have an order form set up and PayPal
and all the wonderful amenities. I want to thank everyone for their invaluable
help and now YOU can own Life With the Dice Bag! On DVD!!!
Buy yourself a copy here.
01.14.04
YES! After two years in the making! The film is finally done! I am currently having it coded and duplicated at Megalodon Multimedia, Inc. They’re a really cool company with some of the best prices on the net, and they say it's coming along very well! So I’m very happy. I should receive a test DVD in a week and then if all goes well the final FIRST Shipping of 1000 should come my way! I am now accepting pre-orders! If you are interested in owning a copy of this awesome film! Drop me a line at: Mason@maysun..org and I’ll set you up! Otherwise hang out for a week or two and I’ll have an official order form set up when the first shipment arrives.
04.29.03
Yes, I know, the new trailer is not up. The old ones are still available HERE. That means the trailers are available here, like it says on the main page, that you had to read before clicking on the news link that brought you here. Sorry. I worked on it all weekend but in the end I just wasn’t happy with it, so it’s not going up I’m sorry. I’ll try and get the trailers up in some other formats in the meantime. I’ve had some complaints about the Divx. All I can say is make SURE you have the 5.0 codec or better because otherwise it will only play the audio.
Life continues…
I found out today
that other people are working on similar documentaries and are planning
to release. The sudden thrust into fierce competition has unnerved me
a bit, but I’m sure that mine will be done first and will be the
best. It means I have to up the production schedule which means I may
have to cut the Milwaukee test screening (sorry guys) but suddenly time
is of the essence and every moment counts!!! I will probably send out
VHS advance copies to people and have them view them and return comment
cards. Oy! What a day!
04.25.03
So the page is up!
That’s exciting! I appreciate Christian’s help on this one.
I have been getting some complaints about the editing on the trailers,
all I can say is I’m still learning but thanks for the input. I
plan to put up a very short third and final trailer probably on Monday.
After that I’ll be finishing editing the main film.
A lot of people have been asking when the film will be done and I definitely appreciate the interest so I’ll try and keep this area updated with steady progress updates. Here is a general outline though.
So far the rough cut is looking like it will be done in May and then after some test screenings (one in DC and one in Milwaukee) the final edit will be made and titles added and then the whole thing will be sent off to the DVD pressing company. The film should be available by late May early June.
If you have any questions or comments please e-mail me at:
Be warned both spam and flames will be ignored.
If you have somehow missed our blatant commercial attempts and are looking for our order page because you want to buy the film you should go here.
Thanks for stopping by.