California calling/FREE T-shirt

I arrived at LAX last night and drove down to San Diego where Winter was sleeping in his car near a brand new Starbucks so he could be their first customer at 5AM. Today it's a San Diego Starbucks assault and then up to Santa Barbara for the speech tonight. First one to say this special code word to me at the speech gets a free STARBUCKINGMOVIE.COM t-shirt. The code word is... "fruitcake". See you there.

STARBUCKING mentioned in AdWeek

The AdWeek blog know as AdFreak has posted an updated story on Winter's travels called "Back on the road with Mr. Starbucks" in which they mention STARBUCKING. Thanks AdWeek!

Time, location, and tickets for UCSB

Winter's presentation at UC Santa Barbara will take place on Friday May, 27th at 9:00PM. It will be in the Linda Vista room of Francisco Torres, a residence hall located at the corner of El Colegio and Storke on the campus of UCSB.

This map shows you how to find Franciso Torres.

Here is a satellite image of Francisco Torres.


As I suspected, tickets are free and there are no reservations. No word on how many people the Linda Vista room will hold.

New UC Santa Barbara details

Winter will be speaking about his project somewhere on the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara on Friday, May 27 at 9:00 PM. Exact location and ticket info forthcoming.

I'm currently working on the documentary sneak peak that will be shown as part of Winter's presentation.

I got some excellent new soundtrack music from Jason Petrovitch of Philadelphia, PA. Thanks a lot Jason!

STARBUCKING appears at Westvillage

On Thursday, starbuckingmovie.com got more than 1200 hits thanks to Screenhead.com and a link at "Westvillage; Funnypictures & Linkdump". Thanks Westvillage!

Screenhead.com

STARBUCKING is mentioned at screenhead.com! To see just go to screenhead.com and scroll down for "Starbucking your way to the middle".

Click here: screenheadlink


Thanks screenhead! And thanks to Howard for the heads up.

STARBUCKING coming to Southern California

It's definite. Starbucking resumes shooting in Southern California around Memorial Day weekend which is the last weekend in May. Hear Winter's story from the horses mouth when he speaks at the University of California Santa Barbara on Friday May 27th. You'll also get a sneak peak at some scenes from STARBUCKING the documentary. Details on how you can attend will be posted as soon as I have them. In my experience, these things are open to the public and free to all comers, but I can't guarantee this.

Canadians for STARBUCKING

A Canadian student requested and received permission to use the STARBUCKING trailers in her own project about coffee.
I also received some new music today composed by Craig Vreeken especially for STARBUCKING. Thanks Craig!

STARBUCKING contacted by Hollywood bigboys!

Yesterday I got an email from a guy with a major Hollywood production house. He wanted to talk to me on the phone so I set up a time. He was enthusiastic about STARBUCKING and told me how his company could provide lots of services like make cinema prints of the movie and distribute to 1000's of cinemas around the country. Sounds great! I was explaining some things about the project to the guy and he realized I wasn't employed by or associated with Starbucks Coffee. Once he learned that I didn't have Starbucks Corporate $$$ backing me, he quickly lost interest, wished me luck, and hung up.

For now then, faithful reader, STARBUCKING remains an independent masterpiece backed by my own pocketbook, vision, and independent spirit. I wouldn't want it any other way!

Starbucking Blog

Watch this blog for updates on the production of Starbucking the documentary. Looks like shooting will take up in Santa Barbara, California around the weekend of Memorial day at the end of May. Winter has been invited to speak at University of California Santa Barbara. You should be able to see a 5 to 10 minute sneak peak of the Starbucking during his presentation! He will also be starbucking all over Southern California and the cameras will be following him.