Great news! The companion short script of my feature comedy, Family Grief, has been completed! Writer Kent Bernhard has done an incredible job and we’ll be moving forward toward the end of summer once the script is refined and financing is in place.

At this point, I don’t have too much to add other than everything is still moving forward on everything. As it trickles in, you will be the first to know.

Knowing…

Back in 2006, The Chase was featured at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival. Two years later, my co-director James Crocket and I are still popping up. Click on the photo to see a large screen capture of us on the red carpet at AFI Dallas to promote the 2008 fest.

Both James and I wish we were there.

Hopefully, we soon will be.

Big Brother… ing…

Big Brother 10 has officially commenced. In the meantime, my concert style music video, N-Demand, is going through process of editing now and will be up for viewing in the next two or three weeks. So far the footage looks amazing and I can’t wait to show it off.

Also, in an effort to get back to film festivals and keep up my directing chops on the narrative side, I’ve completed the rough draft of the short script, Cake. I intend on shooting shortly after BB has completed its latest season. With that said, I’m not only preparing to do one short, but three.

One, called 93 Kg, was written by my good friend Monty Montague, is a chilling sci-fi piece about desperation, and the other is based off my feature screenplay, Family Grief. Written by Kent Bernhard, Family Grief will be as poignant and hilarious as the feature length version.

Of course, all of these plans could be shattered by the potential SAG strike. We’ll see what happens.

And a quick tidbit of progress on my feature Noir, An Unworthy Man. Rewrites have begun and over 500 storyboards have been hand drawn by my friend and amazing artist, Neil D’Monte. Neil has done work for the latest Rambo film and the remake of Day of the Dead by Steve Minor! Click on the above Unworthy link to see a couple of the storyboards and their progress of colorization for the animatic.

It was to be madness.

The cool morning gray allowed the only moment of respite we would experience before the carnage began.

The doors opened, and we were off.

Over the past few weeks I had been slowly producing a live to tape, concert style music video I was also slated to direct for a band known as N-Demand. The last two weeks of putting it together led up to the frenetic 12 hours I had to shoot three different looks with enough accuracy and coverage to make it feel like I knew what I was doing. With that said, this certainly won’t be a problem. Our goal was to raise the standards for this type of music video, and I’d say that we’ve probably done just that.

Overall, I’d say that it was a tremendous success. With the keen talent of my Director of Photography, Sebastian Sokolowski, and our key team members, the shoot went off with very few problems.

Shot in 1080 24p High Definition, the images look phenomenal and the performers were in a league of their own.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be editing the piece together and posting the video along with some photographs of us at work.

Other than that, I’ll be posting the teaser to Therapy very soon, so check back often to see some of the work I’ve been doing in between my seasons of directing Big Brother.

Drinking…

Hollywood, 2008.

The straits are dire and circumstances… circular. Well, more obtuse really, but whose looking?

Accepting a job as a director/producer of a music video has been a welcomed challenge for me, but it has left little time to get my writing done. Beyond that, I helped spearhead an entertaining and fascinating reality television pilot with 3210 Films and my good friend Josh Davlin. The pilot, entitled Therapy, will be up for viewing in the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for that!

In other, very exciting news, A Dollar a Day has been picked up by the same company and they will be taking it to market very soon along with Therapy! Let’s hope for some brevity here and may the universe allow us to sell these wonderful shows.

Also, I’ve recently partnered with a great sound designer and music producer extraordinaire Michael Archaki for the animatic of my feature, An Unworthy Man. Over the next few weeks, also keep an eye out for some samples of the storyboards and the animated version which Michael will be designing the sound for.

Alright, back to the obtuse grind stone.

Grinding…