2 creative kids beating the crap out of each other in this home made fight scene.

Film School by Phone - Next class Tuesday August 28th at 7:00pmPST.

Back in Session!

Hope you all had a nice summer break. Well, it’s time to go back to school.

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Outdoor Movies in Topanga
A very cool thing is happening in my neck of the woods. Topanga Nights. Topanga Nights will happen on the 2nd Sunday of the month in June, July, August and September. Modeled after the very successful Movies At Hollywood Forever Cemetary. Topanga Nights will offer a different movie […]

Directed By: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Rose McGowan, Marley Shelton, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn, Naveen Andrews, Kurt Russell, Sydney Poitier, Jordan Ladd, Vanessa Ferlito, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Parks, Danny Trejo, Bruce Willis, Quentin Tarantino
(R, 191 min.)

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If you haven’t heard of it, I have created “Film School by Phone”, an ongoing series of tele-classes geared toward, Film Students, Pros, Freelancers etc.
My first class was called “Getting Your 1st Job in the Film Business”. I had such a good reponse I kept going. The 2nd class was a 2 parter […]

How about that, 18 seasons and then a feature film. That’s cool. But when your show takes place in the fictional town of Springfield, where do you go for the premier? Now, 16 Springfields in U.S. want to host ‘Simpsons’ movie premiere.
Springfield, the Oregon one, is on a list of like-named […]

Director Zach Snyder is about to unleash an amazing looking film call 300. If you haven’t seen the trailer, see below.

About 14 years ago when I was just starting my career as an AD, I had the good fortune to be Zach Snyder’s 2nd AD. Danny Weisberg (who is now an award winning commercial […]

hdfest
So what do you know, I can now add film festival judge to things I have done in my life. Pretty cool!
I was invited by the nice folks over at the hdfest to be a judge when the swung through Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. It was really great. I sat through 7 […]

Announcing my new teleclass called Breaking In - Starting a Career in the Film Business.
Here are some topics that I’ll cover:

How to get your first paying job in the film buisiness
Who really does what
You’re on set, now what
The differences between Major Studio Movies, Indy’s, Commercials, and Music Videos
Networking
Getting into the various unions

For the […]