what is "talking about the weather"?

I could try helping out with this tomorrow.

Alright, since (hopefully) more people will start joining in, I believe that I should do a summary of what we have right now:

- Talking About the Weather: A 1994, 11 minutes short movie, it was apparently shown in a movie festival called Film Arts Festival '94, it was most likely shot in California around that time. It was directed by Carl Forest Sandler, Operated )? by Эндрю Блэр (Andrew Blair), the music was composed by  David E. Jonhnston, and its cast includes Joan Jett, Nancy Kates and Rikaard Dam Olafsson

- Carl Forest Sandler: He studied economics in California

- Andrew Blair: He's from Russia, he also works as an actor

- David E. Johnston: Not only he´s a composer, but he's also an actor, writer and director

- Joan Jett: Since she needs no introduction, let's just bring her up strictly when we need to adress her involvement about this movie, and not her overall career (unless we have to). She seems to be the "star" of the movie. though every list of her filmography credits her as "?" for this film

- Nancy Kates: She's a relatively famous and successful independent filmmaker, awarded several times since 1993. She studied at the Stanford University around the same time the movie was made

- Rikaard Dam Olafsson: He's most likely from Romania, or at least has romanian descent

Other important stuff:

- We have the apparent Film Arts Festival URL, though it redirects to some London hotels thing
- I believe that some of these people has more than 1 IMBd article, so, in case we're going to investigate someone or something in IMBd, I suggest we search for, at least, 2 articles

I think that's it for now. I'll make another summary when we dig up more stuff

Could you please try to contact him and ask him about the movie? If he's not the guy he'll just say "what are you talking about?", worst case scenario he won't respond. I have important business to attend to today and it'll take me the whole day, so I won't be able to look for anything until late tonight

I'm not quite used enough to lost media searching to randomly phone someone yet.


Mintymint, it seems like those web pages just seem to by copying off of each other.

If you mean Nancy D. Kates Self, I looked her up too, but I think it might be a different person. It seems she has nothing to do with filmmaking.

Actually I just checked this facebook page and I found several references to Oklahoma Universitiy, not Stanford, so yeah, I guess that's not our Nancy Kates after all

Alright, so first of all, like I said on my previous post, I asked Joan Jett on her official Twitter about the movie, though the chances of her responding are next to 0 (hell, I doubt she's even the one administrating that Twitter account, though it is registered so it's definitely hers)

I searched a bit more about Olafsson but still nothing, I only get results of some football player with a very similar name. And every biography I find about him only says: "Rikaard Dam Olafsson is an actor, known for Talking About the Weather (1994)", I also searched for a bit if this football player has appeared in any movie or something, in case they're both the same guy, but it appears that's not the case

As for the links senshisun provided earlier, I checked both of them, I tried to get Sandler's background, but in one of the websites it says that I have to be an US resident so it won't let me, and on the other one it asks me to register an account with my facebook, and since I suffer of slight paranoia and slight OCD it kinda freaks me out to do so. However, on one of the websites it said this Sandler's supposed previous places of residence, and one of them is Palo Alto, California, and I checked on google maps and (I think) Stanford university seems to be located pretty close, so I'd say, chances of "this" Sandler being "our" Sandler are around 70%