Producer Kristin Fairweather says she and writer/director Jenny Deller have partnered with local businesses to have a sustainable film set including organic, locally sourced food.
Deller's screenplay is currently in the semifinals of the Nicholl Fellowship. In April, the film won a $40,000 Alfred P. Sloan grant from the Tribeca Film Institute.
You can follow progress of the shoot on the film's Web site, futureweathermovie.com.
Artist hopes to paint in space
Laurance Rassin, who used to paint in Rittenhouse Square, is hoping to be the first artist to paint in zero gravity. Rassin has been training in hopes that he can get onto one of Virgin Galactic's trips in space that Virgin space agent Moshe Gabbay estimates could be in 12 to 18 months after completing safety tests. Of course, Rassin needs to come up with the $200,000 required to be one of the first to board the Virgin Galactic VSS Enterprise, which the artist says he's already raising through art sales.
Out and about
Moorestown's Linda and Bob Sliwowski, who owns the Bobby Chez Crabcakes there, lunched and caught races in Saratoga, N.Y., with "Entourage" star Kevin Connolly and had drinks with him at Siro's, in which Connolly and co-star Kevin Dillon are partners.
* Mayor Nutter and Councilmen Jim Kenney and Bill Green were guests at Wednesday's Best of Philly party by Philadelphia magazine at the National Constitution Center, as were 6ABC's Rick Williams, Amy Buckman, Ali Gorman, Shirleen Alicott and Karen Rogers, who interviewed Philadelphia magazine interim editor Tom McGrath and president David Lipson. Daily News reporters Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman, who earned a Best of Philly for their Pulitzer Prize-winning police-corruption series and People Paper alternative music writer Sara Sherr, who won for her "Sing Your Life" karaoke events, were among partygoers.
GPTMC loves 'Runway' gal
