One Weekend A Month

Meg's Monday morning routine is turned upside down when the phone rings.

Sundance 2005, Grand Jury Award - Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking
Ashland Independent Film Festival 2006 - Best Short Film

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Iraq
• War
• Veterans
• National
• Guard
• Sundance
• Short
• Film
• Renee
• O'Connor

[kirbaeus]

Whole units get "the call" months prior to MOB. These days maybe even up to a year. Two weeks? Unrealistic, unless it's right before the Iraq invasion and you were in a critical needs unit. They also *usually* make huge provisions for single parents who have sole custody of their children. Sometimes this does prevent someone from deploying. The National Guard is great with family readiness groups and the like. But good acting, just alittle unrealistic scenario.

[ericescobar]

Not in 2004 when the film was made. :(

[jasedotcom]

What did you shoot the film with? What camera? What aspect ratio? What did you edit it on?

[ericescobar]

Panasonic Varicam with a Pro35 Adapter with a set of Zeiss Super Speed Prime Lenses. Aspect ratio was 16x9. Filmed out to 35mm with an Arri Laser II.

[kissepus]

Renee is really talented!! She's such an amazing actor! thanks for posting this

-Tilde

[METerrell]

Well one of the people she talked to did say a week or two, but that's not the point. It's the fact that she needs to make arrangements for her kids to stay with someone while she's deployed and do it on short notice.

[littleone2813]

has anyone heard anything about a sequal to one weekend a month.

michelle

louisiana

[littleone2813]

there is a roomer going around that one weekend a month will have a sequil I hope it does but i hope it's different actors or at the very least not renee.

[29idsoulja]

@jlgpaintball333 the national guard is one weekend a month two -three weeks a year as well as when the governer activates you and every unit and division was placed on the three year rotation, when i enlisted my unit was mob'd every other year and people were ok with that and PLUS who doesnt like the money haha

[29idsoulja]

@kirbaeus idk man we got called a month out that next week we were at lame ass shelby

[furiouskittens]

Good form on the pushups!

[MAYA211212]

HI! love this video! could you put italian or english subtitles?because it's a little difficult for me to understand all the phrases without them..

[MAYA211212]

HI! love this video! could you put italian or english subtitles?because it's a little difficult for me to understand all the phrases without them..

[JAgirl593]

Renee is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!! she shines in any role that she plays =D

[nyb4ever]

Great video. i'm assuming it's just because it's on youtub,e but the sound quality is horrible. The first half of the video before I turned it way way up I couldn't hear a word anyone was saying. Hope I'm not going deaf.

[roflcoptercation]

@TexasDistortion

Did you watch the video retard? It's about her kids.