Blog | Jenny Waldo

Jenny Waldo

Jan 8, 2019
22 min

20 Year Anniversary

20 years ago, this month, I had my first internship in the film industry. Twenty. Years. Ago. For what it’s worth, I wanted to put that...

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Jenny Waldo

Nov 29, 2018
5 min

The problem with home

I recently went home to DC to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. It had only been a year since my last visit but overall my trips back to...

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Jenny Waldo

Nov 16, 2018
3 min

RIP William Goldman

Twenty years ago, I had the extraordinary privilege of meeting the screenwriter William Goldman, who passed away today. His death...

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Jenny Waldo

May 10, 2018
1 min

New Music Video!

The latest in my collaboration with Houston Riot Grrrl band Giant Kitty, the music video I directed for “Disorder Girl” has premiered! It...

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Jenny Waldo

Apr 20, 2018
1 min

Updates

It has been a busy busy busy busy spring semester. I’m teaching extra courses in Filmmaking at Houston Community College and guest...

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Jenny Waldo

Dec 2, 2017
1 min

Crowdfunding & Festivals in Review

It’s been a whirlwind couple of months working on the Seed&Spark crowdfunding campaign to develop ACID TEST into a feature film while...

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Jenny Waldo

Sep 14, 2017
2 min

Article in the Washington Post

Recently, I was under mandatory evacuation here in the Houston area because of Hurricane Harvey. The thing is, I came to Houston as a...

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Jenny Waldo

Sep 14, 2017
3 min

Follow. Share. Contribute.

Now that ACID TEST premiered in the film festival circuit (more news on upcoming screenings soon!), my thoughts are going to the “what’s...

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Jenny Waldo

Sep 11, 2017
1 min

ACID TEST to BendFilm!

My short film ACID TEST will be in competition at BendFilm Festival this October! So excited to attend, and it was great, welcome new in...

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Jenny Waldo

Jul 24, 2017
6 min

Write what you (don’t) know

I recently went to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to view the Ron Mueck exhibit. As I walked in, there was a piece by another artist...

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Jenny Waldo

Jun 21, 2017
3 min

Losing your (festival) virginity

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! As a filmmaker, it’s hard enough just to get your film off the ground and into production. Then it’s another...

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Jenny Waldo

May 23, 2017
1 min

Festival news!

The Literally Short Film Festival runs June 14 – 18 and the Local & Fresh screening will be at 4:00pm on Sunday, June 18th. So this...

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Jenny Waldo

Mar 29, 2017
1 min

ACID TEST New Website & Twitter

ACID TEST has its very own website now www.acidtestfilm.com and a dedicated Twitter handle @acidtestfilm in addition to our existing...

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Jenny Waldo

Nov 26, 2016
3 min

Visual Storytelling

Making movies is telling a story through pictures, performances, words, and sounds. I began this journey into movie-making through...

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Jenny Waldo

May 17, 2016
1 min

We did it! ACID TEST funded!

ACID TEST got the green light on Seed&Spark meaning we received the funds raised in April to get us through post-production. More to...

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Jenny Waldo

Apr 15, 2016
1 min

New Music Video!

So proud and excited to share the news that the band Giant Kitty, featured in my short film ACID TEST, asked me to direct their music...

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Jenny Waldo

Dec 22, 2015
2 min

Book Review: Children of the Darkness

Review David Litwack’s Children of the Darkness offers a lyrical, well-structured, and well-written dystopian story about the power of...

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Jenny Waldo

Dec 11, 2015
5 min

Why this project? Why now?

There’s a lot of work that goes into making a movie – short or long – and I know it’s a choice I make to do it, especially when it’s...

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Jenny Waldo

Nov 18, 2015
4 min

Support Short Films! ACID TEST

We are producing the upcoming short film ACID TEST about a teenage girl who drops acid at a concert only to go home and confess to her...

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Jenny Waldo

Oct 12, 2015
3 min

To be or not to be…Casting

I’m currently casting for an upcoming short film that I’ve written and will direct. As a writer/director, I both love and hate the...

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