San Diego Comic Con

SAN DIEGO COMIC CON 2016 WAS AMAZING. Like, one of the best times of my life. 

Our thesis film "Lola the Great" was selected to screen in the Comic Con International Independent Film Festival this year, and with that, we got free four-day professional passes and a plus one! I took my sister Kathryn along and Rachel Leigh Shirley, the Co-Writer and Director of Photography for Lola, took her mother. We had a great time at the screening, everyone was so kind. Special shoutout to Adam Neese for being a great festival coordinator and emcee!

After our film screened on Thursday, we had the rest of the weekend to explore and here are some photos of the highlights! Comic Con cosplaying gave me a great opportunity to flex my production design muscles, I made my sister's Scarlet Witch costume, my Quicksilver costume, my Coraline costume, and my Beast costume. The Beast costume even ended up on IMDb! I am now a Getty Image!

Another highlight was when Kathryn got to meet Brad Bird. She is a HUGE fan of the Iron Giant and The Incredibles (as am I) but we ran late for his panel. He was about to leave the room and I kind of shouted out, "I'm sorry but my sister is a huge fan of yours and I made her late and would you take a picture with her it would mean so much!" And he was SO NICE! He came back into the room, talked to Kathryn, took a picture, then shook our hands. It was awesome to have one of our heroes be so kind to us in person.

Comic Con was full of enthusiastic, talented people; it's such an accepting, positive community that I'm glad to be a part of. I hope I get to go back next year!!

A Beautimous Wedding

Hey hey hey! So recently I had the privilege of returning to Minnesota to join one of my favorite families as their eldest, Andie, got hitched to a great guy named Adam. As usual, I was squatting at their house and had a blast tagging along for everything. I was especially honored when Andie asked me to do her make up for the big day (not she needed very much/any at all, let's be honest she's gorgeous). Long story short, I ended up doing the make up of everybody in this photo except Joey (Dan had an allergic reaction we had to cover up with some base! He said his new look made him feel very youthful lol). It was a great time, and reminded me that what I love most is being around the people I love, seeing them happy, and then making a fool of myself to "Hotline Bling" on dat dancefloor :)

UGH SHE IS SO PRETTY AND FUNNY AND KIND AND ATHLETIC I DIE

Greencard REX

Check out this movie recommendation I wrote about Barbarella (WATCH THAT CRAZY FILM) for Greencard Pictures' newsletter! I started my internship in NYC this January and I'm having a blast (especially when they let me do things like this!)

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Big Ol' Book of Pre-Pro

One of my favorite parts of pre-production is doodling in my giant, square, "Book of Future Films." I've shared some of the pages I did when planning for "Lola the Great" over in the Featured Projects section so give it a look :)

In other (big) news, my pals and I are looking at apartments this weekend with a view to move to New York City before the end of the month! I start my Greencard Productions internship this coming week and I couldn't be more excited to jump into the real world. Wish me luck!

Thesis films and Festivals!

Rachel Shirley and I combined our efforts this thesis film cycle and made our film "Lola the Great" which is now officially locked, thus winding down a long, grueling process. Above is our poster (it's not the final version, my name is temped in for the music which is not accurate at all). I'm so proud of our work; we fought through rain and heat, strapped a RED Dragon onto a paddle boat to film a mermaid scene, Rachel learned After Effects in order to do our FX, and I picked up Photoshop to make the poster. It truly was a labor of love, and sheer stubbornness at times haha.

ALSO, another cool thing that happened lately is that it was announced that I, and a few other of my FSU Peers (shout out to Jake Hammond!) were selected as "Best Of" at the Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase! Subsequently, our films will be screening at the Best of Brouhaha Side Bar at the Florida Film Festival! So if you happen to be in Florida in April stop by and see a lot of great shorts!

Finished the trailer for Puberty!

Ta-Da! Here it is! YouTube wasn't too kind to the excellent cinematography/coloring that my Director of Photography, Twinkle Agarwal did, but you get the gist! The actual film is 7:25 but here's something to make you curious! If you are interested in seeing the whole film contact me and I'll send it your way!

Written and Directed by: Lydia Dullinger

Produced by: Brandon Cox

Director of Photography: Twinkle Agarwal

Production Design: Brandon Cox

Brand New Website

Thanks for checking my site out! I'm a brand new baby bird to all of this, so stay tuned for more groovy stuff to come!