So once again I’ve fallen down on trying to keep this thing even remotely updated.  So what’s been up?  Well since the last post I was asked to be a part of an upcoming collection of short films for a DVD called The Collective Volume 4.  With these Collective DVDs they get a bunch of filmmakers together and give them all a theme.  This one the theme is emotions and I was given the emotion of Fear.  So after doing some research I found a phobia called Myctophobia which is labeled as a Fear of Darkness.  I was hoping to find something outside of the typical fear of the dark but the way this one was labeled as a Fear Of Darkness I was intrigued.  That classification seemed to give the dark a presence.  Darkness.

So I pounded out a script one night, sent it off to some hopefuls, and had a majority of my cast within two days.  It all came together really easily.  I am super lucky to get Kitsie Duncan to come on board.  She has an indie horror following and is going to be great as my lead.  And of course I can’t seem to do a project without Steve Christopher involved.  I had him in mind as Kitsie’s therapist.  Meeting with a few actors here next week to figure out who will be playing her husband.  After that we had a lucky break and was able to get a house that is for sale to use to shoot in.  We have full run of it and won’t be putting anyone out.

And with this one I decided rather than pay completely out of pocket I’d try to raise some cash to pay the actors and such.  So we’re up on Indie Go Go but still not close to our goal yet.  Hoping in the last few weeks we can get some last minute donations.  Here’s to hoping.  But if you’re reading this and still want to donate feel free: Myctophobia Donations!

The cool thing is that this is already set to premiere at the Days Of The Dead convention in Indianapolis on July 6th.  Going to be very cool to have one of my films playing at a festival that I will have a table at (with Drunken Zombie).  So lots of things looking up in 2012.  Just in time for the end of the world.

So it’s been awhile.  Why so quiet?  The main reason is that this year’s film festival was bigger than ever so I was swamped with film festival work.

As with last year our good friend Lord Blood-Rah was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule to fly out here to MC the event.  The show went off without a hitch.  Friday night we had a lot of one day people showing up to check out some indie horror films.  Skew, True Nature, and Toxic Lullaby all played to rave reviews from those in attendance.  True Nature was one of my favorites that we were showing so I was glad that everyone that watched it seemed to agree.

Saturday started off kinda slow but it usually is and picks up later on.  Had a lot of people trickle in through out the day.  As with last year we had some great short films show on Saturday.  One of which was my latest short film Whisper.

One of the good things was we didn’t really have any technical issues all weekend. . . until Whisper hit.  Of course  the DVD player started glitching just as Whisper started.  But it never really failed completely so people got to see it none the less.  They seemed to enjoy it and I got a lot of compliments afterwards.  Whether they were being nice or honestly liked it who knows.  Either way I’ll gladly accept their praise.  So after the festival was over I finally got to relax.  We also filmed some fun stuff with Lord Blood-Rah for a DVD that will contain both Shadows and Whisper along with three other short films.  Can’t wait for that to come out.

After the festival I put Whisper up online and so far it seems to have gotten some good buzz.  Some fantastic websites like Horror Society, Dread Central, and Arrow In The Head have posted it.  Which is great.  Getting it in front of more eyeballs.  Going to start the fun (sarcasm) process of sending it out to some film festivals here soon.  Ugh.  Well if you by chance read this blog definitely feel free to take a gander at Whisper yourself below.

Well it was a pretty fun time the other night. Held auditions for Whisper.  First time really looking outside of my social circle for actors.  So still a little new at this whole auditioning process but I think it went pretty well.  Some really cool actors who I hope can really bring some life to this short.  One weird thing about this was that I was sharing audition time with two other filmmakers.  So that makes it hard to really gauge if the actors were there because they were interested in Whisper or if they were mainly there for the other two and only read for mine because I was there.  I’ll admit that Whisper is a fun little horror film and not Shakespeare.  But I think it will be a fun time to shoot and hopefully we can bring some life to everything that’s on the page.  The one good thing is that Whisper is all atmosphere.  No blood at all in the film.  So hopefully we can really bring the tension in this.  More auditions tonight.  Can’t wait.  Also got mentioned in the local film blog by Tim Gillick.  So check that out and some photos below also shot by Gillick.

Well things are finally starting to calm down.  The Drunken Zombie Film Festival 2010 was a success.  All the films were well received.  The theater sold a ton of drinks.  And for me the happiest moment was that my short film SHADOWS finally went out into the world and everyone seemed to enjoy it.  There was some decent applause for it.  People seemed to like it.  Trust me I was sweating like a pig before it made it up onto the screen.  After that was over my stress level for the weekend plummeted.  Over all a great experience.  Already have sent SHADOWS off for some contests and film festival type of deals.  Hoping it will do well in those areas.  We shall see.  But enough of my rambling.  Want to see SHADOWS?  Then just watch it below.