Who Are You People?

The sci-fi short film that I wrote and directed (and went gray producing the effects shots for) is premiering at the LA Shortsfest on Monday, July 27th. It’s part of Program #24 at 10PM. If you can sneak out on a school night, I’d love to see you there. Tickets are available online.

Last weekend was the second and last of the two-weekend shoot for my short film, Walking Wounded, and I’m still recovering. It’s a 16-page script, which means we averaged four pages per day. That’s like shooting a 110-page feature in about 27 days, which is pretty respectable. The Panasonic HVX200 treated us pretty well. It’s [...]

Okay, so there haven’t been much in the way of updates. Sorry, I’ve been pretty busy working on two different feature projects and trying to fit the short prep into whatever spare moments I can find. And, all of the sudden — we’re shooting in 3 days! Wow. How did that happen? The good news [...]

The short is coming together. Shooting dates are set. Locations are secured. The script is polished. A slick FX shop has come on board to help out with the effects. And just this week, I secured the talents of a really gifted illustrator for the design of the aliens and their various machines. His name [...]

I’m about to pull the trigger on a fairly ambitious project — a new short film, produced under the auspices of the Socal Film Group. It’s been a while since my last short, DUST DEVIL, and this one will be considerably more demanding and, if things go well, a much more impressive piece of filmmaking. [...]