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treading water September 2011 will definitely go down as one of the craziest months i’ve ever had. 60 hour weeks at the day job, well over 60 hours (total – not per week) on one of several different freelance gigs and a ridiculous deadline on Last Days: Ante Diem (today) – which we will NOT [...]

here’s a little explanation of a technique i use to help actors get to very deep and personal emotional depths on-set. it’s been quite good to me and i plan to continue to use it so i figured i’d share it and see if it could help my friends and colleagues. cheers! this is sort [...]

this post originally appeared on carefullydescending.com on 6/15/11 the careful descent is over. last night (6/14/11) as part of the most recent We MADE Movies short films screening, we had what is very likely to be the last screening of our film “carefully descending“, but it also happened to be the FIRST screening of the [...]

in December ’09, we shot a short film called “carefully descending“. at about 3am thursday morning (6/9/11), the totally bad ass David Bartlett finally finished the sound mix for us and thus, completed the film. though we’ve already screened this film in two different festivals, it hadn’t actually been complete when we did, but it’s [...]

back from the big island here is a mini photo-journal of our trip to the Big Island Film Festival. i’m going to do a more comprehensive review of it on We Make Movies in a day or two, but in the meantime enjoy these photos. click on the photos to see larger versions of them.

Getting It Done Already There’s a saying in film- “projects aren’t finished, they’re abandoned”. Boy is it true. Almost two years ago, we decided to shoot a short film. Within just a few weeks Chad had written a script we loved, and we set to work, shooting it for hardly any money in December of [...]

crazy couple weeks … in a good way loads of crap happened these past couple of weeks – much of it pretty exciting and interesting. i’ve just been kind of processing it all and doing a ton of last-minute, unplanned preparations for some of them. so here they are: our short film ‘carefully descending‘ got [...]