Introducing the only Police Beat column to focus exclusively on writer Charles Mudede's Seattle produced film Police Beat

The films screening in the prestigious 2005 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition include Police Beat, directed by Robinson Devor and written by Stranger Police Beat columnist Charles Mudede, and the most recent film to be churned out by the Northwest Film Forum's Start to Finish program. Sundance is one of the top five festivals in the world right now, which means that Police Beat must be pretty damn good, setting it apart from almost all Seattle produced indie films to this point. Check back for Beat updates as we get closer to the festival.

This column is named "Police Blotto" after former Seattleite and local film scene bad-boy Jamie Hook, who also produced a film through the Start to Finish Program. Convienently, he controlled the NWFF at the time. The "screwball comedy," The Naked Proof, did not get into Sundance. Interestingly, Charles Mudede plays a priest in the film. According to the Naked Proof website, Jamie got Blotto all alone down by the river after wrapping up the project. Hook left Seattle to become executive director of Boston-based literary cult Grub Street, then bailed after a year to become the executive director of Minnesota Film Arts. His manic mix of the high and lowbrow will be missed in placid Seattle, even though we have executive directors for arts groups aplenty, all happily spending other people's money.

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