At Friday’s Cinequest happy hour in downtown San Jose’s Eulipia, Halfdan Hussey, co-founder of Cinquest San Jose’s Film Festival, announced Cinequest’s expansion into the production of A-List movies, episodic TV and new media starting this fall. Halfdan noted it will be about a month from now before the announcement will be made through mainstream media channels.

In 2001, Cinequest Film Festival created a distribution solution in order to make festival film favorites available beyond the annual festival in San Jose. To date, 70 movie titles have been released in the US makret. Cinequest Maverick Studio is an expansion of this arm into production. Halfdan noted that the productions will be “HBO-quality” and feature stars such as Scarlett Johansson.

This is exciting news. Remember, you heard it here on StarkSilverCreek – All Things West Coast.

Besides this insider announcement, the happy hour was great fun as Bin Laden Bingo got all the attendees breaking the ice with the staff at Cinequest.

This was followed by a banter of risky and forbidden questions we’ve all secretly wanted to ask Bin Laden himself and the hilarious answers.

I was also able to catch up with Sal from the San Jose Mercury and Edwin Mosher, president of Mosher’s Ltd.

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Loni Kao Stark

Loni is a self-professed foodie, adventure travel seeker and aspiring artist. It's been said her laugh can be heard from San Jose all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge. She's been known to dance and spin across Napa and the Baja. The former Ms. Global Petite runner-up is host of WineTube TV, SSC Presents and The Artist Diaries. In a former life she was simply: "sushiweakness." More »

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