News
March 2015
Post production
Mr. Lockjaw - Trailer
Byron released a sharp trailer for Mr. Lockjaw on the 6th and I've been tickled to hear enthusiastically positive feedback from folks. I love the escalating pace of cuts that matches the growing insanity of my character. With any luck the score and final sound mix will be completed within weeks but it's listed on the Internet Movie Database as of this month.
Hope - Trailer
A trailer was released on the 21st for Hope, a Sci-Fi short that was filmed last August with me and Amor Owens.
The film used a large green-screen set to stage several scenes that take place in a space station.
A senior film project at AIA, this project is Frank Andersons' baby, for which he's on task for writing, directing, CG animation, editor, and more.
And I got to be a space man!
Events
Atlanta Screenwriters Group
Wild Youth, a TV pilot by Anthony McHie, was covered on the 5th.
In this dystopia, a disease afflicts people nearing 20, turning them into homicidal maniacs who must be euthanized, often violently.
Eliminating all the 20-somethings isn't the blessing I imagined, however, as humanity struggles in a Hobbsian state of nature — poor, nasty, brutish, and short. In other words, The Walking Lord Mad Max of the Hunger Flies.
A neat surprise was getting to connect again with David Benedict at the reading. Before it moved to the Ferst Center, he and I played together at Drama Tech in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Fahrenheit 451, and A Pickwick Christmas Carol.
Atlanta Film Festival
This is one of the few festivals that can lead to Academy Awards — a Georgia short The Accountant won an Oscar after qualifying at ATLFF — and I plan on using my movie-hopper pass to see as many shows as my butt can bear. Official selections include two short films I appear in, Public Enemy #1 and American Hell, so it is possible I am in a 2016 Oscar winner. Well, technically, that is.
Lots of strong films this year, but I was most impressed by Wild Like, The Long Start To The Journey, and I’ll See You In My Dreams, starring a delightful Blyth Danner.
Screenings and Distribution
American Hell - short
Bryce Milburn shot American Hell last June. Since then it has screened at a dozen film fests including, this month, the Atlanta Film Festival. At the Plaza Theatre, 4:30 Sunday 22 March, as part of "Other Worlds" shorts program. I appear briefly in it as a battered landlord. Features Mark Ashworth, who worked with me on Mr. Snuggles and Mr. Lockjaw.
Public Enemy #1 - short
A short comedy starring Keith Brooks and Dorian Santiago, Public Enemy #1, is screening this month in the Atlanta Film Festival the Plaza Theatre, 9:30 Monday 23 March. It should be good: Keith played an awesome bad-clown role in Mr. Lockjaw. I have a two-line role in it as an absurdly racist sketch artist. Disconncertingly, it wasn't the only racist I played last year; I also was a racist [vampire] in Restricted Diet. What's with me being cast as comic racists?
Horror Hotel - Invader - short
Sweet to see Horror Hotel running in rotation across the pond. The Short Movie Channel (shorts.tv) was running episodes overnight in Europe, including the Invader episode I was in. That episode also screened at Raindance in the UK last August so now I feel positively continental.
Screenings and Distribution
The Interns Part 1
First production meeting for the detective crime drama, The Interns, where I'll be playing a hardass, misanthropic detective. Nice solid chunk of work: in just the first act there's about a dozen pages with the guy and he's part of a plot twist. I met most of the cast on the 8th, including a couple guys I've played with before — looking forward to working again with Devin Miller (Atheist Dinner Party), Codi Waugh (Friend Request), and Derrell Keith Lester (Coma Girl). Photo shoot and table read later this month. The production team is gearing up a Kickstarter campaign so I'm guessing there are a couple more months before filming.
