That’s a Wrap: Red Glove Dance at Redmond Regional!

21/02/2012 By Leave a Comment

RED GLOVES

 

Redmond Regional wanted an upbeat, “run and gun” style music video to help celebrate heart month, as well as boost morale, build a deeper sense of teamwork and show they know how to have a good time! Working with SONARconnects Blank Stage filmed a total of thirty three locations in two days.  Each department of the hospital was asked to prepare something simple and our crew had no idea what we were going to walk into going in but leaving we were all impressed!  They gave us the song to use and we quickly saw that we had too much footage for just one video, so we ended up shooting two! Enjoy -

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Southern Hills Hospital – A Great Place to Work!

21/02/2012 By Leave a Comment

In-Production

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Blank Stage is editing this awesome project for SONARconnects! We spent a week shooting and producing various spots with SONARconnects for three different hospitals and now we are in post-production. Here Southern Hills was looking for a video of what it means to work at their that they can use to show to new hires. We had a blast and learned a lot about what it really means to work at Southern Hills hospital and all the amazing staff they have. We look forward to working more with them in the near future!

Here is an screen capture of the assemble cut we in the middle of creating.

 

It all starts from the top and the Southern Hills CEO walks the talk.

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Audition Space at Blank Stage

20/02/2012 By Leave a Comment

Today we welcome the “Organic Root Stimulater” team as they host their national auditions. The talent pool for this has been incredible.

Audition space at Blank Stage Studios.

E-mail: brent@blankstageproductions.com

Blank Stage offers casting directors the black box stage audition experience. The studio also doubles as a networking hub and destinations spot for actors, producers and screenwriters. FILMAtlanta meetup, Get Connected workshops, The Blank Page screenwriting groups and The Actor’s Journey are all resident groups that attract talent to the space. Complete with wireless internet access, restrooms, free parking, and a lobby for holding Blank Stage is ready to host your next audition.

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ImprovAstorm

18/02/2012 By Leave a Comment

IMPROVASTORM

Blank Stage Productions is in the process of re-launching improvAstorm!

Think, “Saturday Night Live” for YOUR business. A team of highly skilled improvisers use the stage to “think tank” creative ideas and concepts as the seeds to your potential video, marketing campaign or general messaging. This fast-paced thrill ride will leave the business owner with up 20 new, fresh ideas they can integrate right away. ImprovAstorm can provide MAJOR branding or re-branding and offers the client a array of options in various creative genres.

Right now we are still developing and defining the creative process as we re-visit it, so for the first few business  owners we are offering the initial experience at no cost.

We are looking for business owners who…

  • Think “outside the box”
  • Could use video to market their business
  • Would want their video to play online as well as on cable
  • Is the decision maker for the company
  • Have a marketing budget
Contact Brent Brooks at brent@blankstageproductions.com

Blank Stage has a highly successful track record of producing in the both creative and commercial arenas. Being a co-founder of “Get Connected” has brought in touch with the leading filmmakers and content producers in the Atlanta market. We can produce just about anything and build any team imaginable.

 

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Featured Interview with Nick DeMao, Director of “Communist Robot Aliens”

18/02/2012 By Leave a Comment

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Welcome to the “Meet the Director” series of interviews featuring local filmmakers that are screening their works at “Get Connected“. “Communist Robot Aliens” will be screening at the February, 2012 event. The mission of Get Connected is to build an industry family, help people gain employment, meet and network with great people, all while having a great time!

CRA – Kickstarter

 

Are you looking forward to having your film screened at “Get Connected”?

Absolutely.  I respect Get Connected as both an event and as a way to get your foot in the door in the Atlanta filmmaking community.  There are lots of great people who put the event together and I’m ecstatic to be able to display Communist Robot Aliens to them all.  Hopefully the excitement will be reciprocated once our little Ed Wood-ian homage gets screened.

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Can you tell us your past experience in the industry?

I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to work and interact with numerous folks in the industry on several projects.   I started off by making backyard films with my friends and now I’m lucky enough to be able to work on large-scale productions with like-minded individuals.  Personally – I started off as a cameraman and screenwriter.  I’ve worked with my best friend Nathan Morehart (the “More” in MoreMao Productions) for over ten years and together we’ve graduated from the learning experiences of early years to the more ‘professional’ experiences presently.

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So…what is your film about? 
Robots.  Aliens.  Communists.  The eternal struggle of an outcast scientist who must save the world whilst winning the heart of the girl he loves.  Communist Robot Aliens is an homage to the sci-fi films of the 1950′s.  A lot of folks compare it to Ed Wood’s Z-grade films and, in a large sense, it garners inspiration from  films such as Plan 9 From Outer Space, Bride of the Monster, and Night of the Ghouls; however it also has parallels to some of the more ‘respected’ films from that time such as The Thing from Outer Space, THEM!, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.   In a sentence: When the aliens team up with the Communists in an attempt to control the planet – the fate of humanity lies in the hands of a down-trodden scientist who has little more to aid him than a magnifying glass and the love for a woman he cannot have.

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How did you come up with the idea? 
Nathan and myself have always been fans of Ed Wood.  His movies are regarded as pretty terrible; however his passion for filmmaking is obvious.  We decided that it’d be a fun challenge to recreate a 1950′s sci fi spoof using modern day tools to our advantage.  We watched several films and identified key themes common throughout most of these films and penned a script together over the course of a few months.  From there it was a massive effort from myself, Patricia Roberts, and Heather Place to spearhead the pre-production in an abbreviated amount of time.

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How did you go about making the movie? 
After the script was done it was a matter of pinning dates.  Nathan resides in Asia; however he made plans to fly down to Georgia and help me co-direct.  Knowing he’d only be here for two weekends – Patricia Roberts, Heather Place, and myself put in tons of man-hours running pre-production.  We were fortunate enough to get access to Blank Stage via Brent Brooks and hold our casting session.  We also had a table read and numerous crew meetings to discuss lighting, locations, and logistics.   Come shoot days we were pretty well-prepared and were able to hammer through production.   For the effects we would use scale-sized models (attached to fishing line) and paste those over our footage in true 50′s fashion.

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Tell us about your cast and crew
They’re amazing.  Truly.  It may sound cliche for a director to give so much credit to the cast/crew; however I cannot emphasize how thrilled I was with the effort put forth by the cast & crew on Communist Robot Aliens.   A lot of the members who helped have tons of experience on sets and were able to synergize with myself and Nathan to create the film.     Heather Place – our Casting Director – is absolutely phenomenal and without Patricia Roberts we wouldn’t have been able to secure the locations we had that give a true and authentic 50′s feel.  Our Production Designer – Tim Goldman – was able to create fantastic sets with little more than black sheets, some props, and a bit of direction.  Casey George worked quickly and produced amazing results with the makeup.  Tyler Shead stepped into the role of sound and delivered incredibly clear and crisp sound that sounds fantastic.  I’ve worked with the Director of Photography, Marcus Cooley, several times before and he has an outstanding eye for lighting.  As far as the cast – Brent Brooks, Tom Todaro, Stephanie Stevens, John D’Angelo, Brad Corbin, Barry Piacente – all took the 50′s theme and ran with it.

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What do you think the audience will enjoy about your film? 
I think the audience will sense how much fun we had making the film and enjoy the zaniness of a 50′s homage.  I think they’ll like the nostalgia and chuckle at the tongue-in-cheek errors that are peppered throughout.  Errors such as continuity flubs, jump cuts, the corny effects – the audience will soak these up and enjoy the ride.

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Any war stories from set? 
I can’t say that I saw anyone clash on set; however the second day of shooting was a bit tough.  We had mapped the weather forecast and monitored it for days.  Saturday was going to be rainy all day and Sunday would be perfectly clear.  As is accustom with any film you try to make and plan for – it was the exact opposite.   We did all our interiors on Saturday and planned our exteriors for Sunday.  Sunday, of course, it rained; however it wasn’t rain the traditional sense – but it was moreso that misty rain that soaks everything but does it at a snail’s pace.  All wasn’t for naught though – we shot it (the cast/crew were awesome about it) and it looksphenomenal when transitioned to black and white.

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Any tips you can share with others about the production process? 
Don’t skimp on pre-production.  Filmmaking is a blast, but like anything else it takes a ton of work to get it right.  No woodworker jumps head first into cutting the wood and building the shelf – he spends more time measuring, picking the proper wood, and measuring again.  Same goes for pre-production; too many times folks get a great idea and want to run with it immediately instead of sitting down and mapping everything out.  Heather Place, Patricia Roberts, and myself spent collectively over 100 hours in pre-production and the results paid off.  Also: be patient.  Filmmaking is a mentally exhausting activity and regardless of how well you planned something – something else will go wrong.  Just learn to roll with the punches and adapt.  We did – and I can’t be more proud of Communist Robot Aliens.

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Interview with Ava Leigh Stewart, Director of “South of Southern”

17/02/2012 By Leave a Comment

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Cast and Crew getting ready for the next shot on the set of the comedy “South of Southern”

SOUTH OF SOUTHERN – 22:00

Logline:
An alcoholic truck stop stripper, turned high society debutant, sets out to throw her daughter the perfect Southern engagement party.  The sister of the groom shocks everyone with an outrageous surprise guest, hoping to stop her brother from making the biggest mistake of his life.  A roller coaster of dysfunction ensues in a small Southern town.

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Plot Summary: 
South of Southern is a film that explores the lives of several seemingly traditional Southerners and the complications that often arise when old society mantras meet the modern age. This is a tale of treachery, deceit, debauchery, and salvation, seen through the eyes of a handful of diverse party guests celebrating the engagement of a young couple, delving into the darker side of proper Southern society. Two families collide at the apex of a generation, each clan harboring staggering secrets that not even their own relatives could fathom – an epic clashing of truth, appearance, alcohol, and morality, destined to forever shape the future of both bloodlines.

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RSVP FB:                    https://www.facebook.com/events/338617216161842/
Press Kit (images):      http://southofsouthern.net/press/
Trailer:                         http://southofsouthern.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sos_wcopyrght.mov
Youtube:                      http://youtu.be/LBu3juSRvE8
Vimeo:                         http://vimeo.com/32123235

 

Interview Ava Leigh Stewart

Are you looking forward to having SOUTH OF SOUTHERN screened at “Get Connected”? 

I am elated to be back home, as a native of Atlanta, to have the honor of screening a preview of my feature film at Get Connected.    Making my feature debut, South of Southern in my hometown, after almost seven years in Los Angeles has been a wonderful experience.  I feel very inspired to see that Atlanta is becoming the Hollywood of the South.   I hope to meet new friends at the event and work to create some roots in the film industry here, so I can do more projects here.

Can you tell us your past experience in the industry? 

I began my career at CNN – climbing the ranks of news production.  I started on the production design team for CNN, CNNI, CNN Espanol, CNNSI, and Headline News responsible for graphics worldwide and sets in Atlanta, Washington D.C., New York, London, and Los Angeles.   I was tapped to manage the design department for CNN.com in 2001, after completing a Business Degree in Information Systems, specializing in integrating media between television and the web.   I left CNN to attend the MFS, The National Film & Television School in London, England.    After film school in London, I founded Art West Film to pursue a diverse range of projects in film, television, and new media.   I have worked for major studios, including Warner Brothers, Disney, AEG, and independent production companies in all areas of development, production, and new media. Some recent projects include production design for Philippe Caland’s film, Tripping Tommy, as well as producing the Documentary, State of Control, and others.   We are in development with the sequel to South of Southern,  entitled, Sisters of Suburbia that we hope to shoot in the Fall of this year.

So… What is “South of Southern” all about?

It revolves around family dysfunction as a universal experience, those moments when you realize, “Oh my God, my uncle didn’t hit twelve deer – he was an alcoholic.”  For some more caustic, than others, the film depicts the reality of growing up in a small Southern town, rife with rules, and keeping up appearances.  The story centers on the mother and father of two adult children, who still live close to home.  We hoped to lift the curtain to show Southern values, ethics and ideals, showing a thousand choices have to be made, and how all of them have consequences.

How did you come up with the idea? 

The inspiration for the film was rooted in my experiences growing up in the South.  Southern Culture is fascinating, full of unique individuals, and although we created fictional characters, this movie and the series is an homage to all things Southern.  I wanted to show a different version of the South, not often depicted on screen, on more than one level.  It is the idea that you can’t choose the family into which we’re born.  Be it functional or dysfunctional, happy or tragic, as children we collect baggage that must be unpacked over a lifetime.  Part of becoming an adult is deciding what role our parents and siblings are going to play in the rest of our lives. Do we recognize their strengths and forgive their mistakes, or harbor resentment?  How much are we willing to take, as we grow older and discard all the lessons learned in youth and reinvent ourselves as adults?

The film opens as the characters start to form second families: friends, roommates, co-workers, and significant others.  Sometimes finding that those we choose to allow into our lives can cause chaos and conflicts, as the worlds collide   As family, marriage, and other links bind us, we are forced to develop relationships with virtual strangers who will be part of every significant event of our lives.  These bonds can be easily cut or damaged, as time marches forward, so each challenge builds the family history and that is South of Southern in a nutshell, which in reality is more like an onion…

We love the stories filmmakers tell us about how the film comes together,  how do you go about making the movie?

We spent the better part of a year developing the script and started the casting process early in the development.  We had an ultra low budget, so we had a very ambitious filming schedule.  In a situation where your trying to curb costs by limiting locations, and special effects, the movie is primarily focused on the story and the cast, We spent a long time working on the script to give it the layers that it needed to tell the story and create opportunities for the actors.  We filmed this feature in four days with a skeleton crew and an ensemble cast of eleven, and it was a symphony of chaos.   There were a lot of happy accident, we had a great chemistry on set with everyone, and you can will see it in the final version of the feature film, especially.

Tell us about your cast and crew! 

A COLORFUL TABLE: 
When looking for actors and actresses for the movie, we conducted an exhaustive casting search, open auditions, virtual auditions, and everything in between.  South of Southern is an ensemble comedy centered on unique characters, so it was essential to find the perfect cast.  It was a challenge to cast the entire Honeycut & Roberts families because they had to look like they could be related, but have a balance.  Each actor had to possess a certain quality to be able to create the type of characters we wrote, each member of our team had a real edge.  With eleven actors and actresses, a writer, and a director with improvisational training, it was a given that the production would have on-site discovery.  None of the cast knew each other before the film, but from the first time everyone met, they all had an amazing chemistry.  There were strange 3rd party connections that spanned the country between almost everyone, and we became like a big family.    We had a great cast, if someone had an idea in the moment, everyone jumped in to try and make it better, until it worked.  Normally, when making movies, you have more time to perfect the performance.  Low budget film making is different, you have almost no time for rehearsals or thousands of takes, so everyone on set had to bring 200% to make a film like this in four days for less than twenty grand.  It is a different process that requires a lot of energy.   The entire cast and crew had to be engaged constantly and make sure not to drop their guards.  It was actually a great way to work, even though a synergy cannot be a sure thing – this entire team had something.

THE CAST IN ACTION:
ALISA RIGGS PETTIT (Footloose) leads the cast as Anabelle Honeycut, the eccentric single mother of two daughters, Hollis (KAT SLATERY) and Harper (SHARON OLIPHANT). The story begins with the engagement of Hollis Honeycut to Heyward Roberts (LEE WILSON). When Heyward’s sister, Katie Roberts (KRISTEN TUNSTALL) discovers by invitation and not a phone call that her brother is engaged, she finds herself horrified.  Kaite enlists the help of her co-worker, Trevor Connor (BRIAN LINSLEY) to secretly record the party with hidden cameras and microphones.  Katie travels to Florida before the party to meet Charles Honeycut III (RICK MONTGOMERY JR.) for an interview, as well as extend an invitation to the engagement party. The arrival of Charles Honeycut III and his new wife Donna (LESLEY WARREN) shake up both families.

ABOUT THE CREW:
The comedy’s behind-the-scenes crew is led by director AVA LEIGH STEWART (Keepers of the Gate, State of Control) who also co-wrote and produced the Southern comedy, South of Southern under the Art West Film banner. Collaborating with fellow writer and producer, DREW STEWART, as well as producer and production designer, TREY LAFAVE, they created a world of interesting characters and a location that makes the story come to life.   The crew was spearheaded by cinematographer MITCHELL LIPSINER and camera assistant SHANE TEPPER, Costume Designer AQUA CATLIN (Tripping Tommy), Assistant Director SAM GREEN (The Mansion, Prosper), 2nd Assistant Director, REED PENDERGRASS, makeup artist RENONDA ANDERSON (The Promotion, Prosper), Art Director DAVID HAMILTON WILSON (Drop Dead Diva), Scenic Manager, ALAN REESE, editors LUKE DYE, JAMES FARLOW, and Sound Designer MIKE SLATER.
A full list of our cast and crew can be found on our website:  www.southofsouthern.net

What do you think audiences will enjoy most?

We wanted audiences to laugh!  We are experiencing an economic depression in our country, many people are experiencing hardships, and the best remedy to me, is to laugh, so I decided that the next film I worked on would be a comedy.   I really hope that people sit back and forget about a bad day, week, or month, and enjoy the colorful characters that we have created and take those moments with them.

Any war stories from the set?

We had a great group of people, but we had a number of challenges, but two in particular resonate with me now.  We used live chickens for several scenes and although we had veterinary supervisor, one of the chickens got loose in the Buckhead neighborhood where we did our principle filming.  I was standing behind the camera and I heard our sound guy yell, “we have a loose cock.”    There are really no words that accurately describe such a moment, as an escaped animal on set, and imminent bedlam.   The entire cast and crew chased the chicken and the chicken, whose name was Clyde, ended up at the neighborhood swimming pool, where no one seemed to notice him, until he was rescued by our associate producer, Joanna Wilson.

The second was losing a location for one of the scenes.  We planned a pool scene and the power at the pool location was lost due to a freak lightning storm, so we ended up having to change the location 30 minutes before we started filming to the back porch of our primary location, which had no production design or water.  It also compromised the script, so we had to do an emergency re-write, which was difficult all while trying to do so many things at once and lacking a certain focus.  Trey Lafave, David Hamilton Wilson, Nancy Thanki, and Raqchel Walker did an amazing job making an ordinary space, into something extraordinary in less than 30 minutes, using candles, bowls, holiday lights,  and flowers.

Any tips you can share with others about the production process? 

I won’t lie, making films might be one of the most challenging experiences of my professional career, which is why I love it, hate it, and can’t stay away.    The energy on set is amazing, so much creativity and synergy, but it can get very hectic.   I think attempting to remain calm under pressure,  trying to listen before reacting, and  walking away when you need a moment to think would be my best advice to those starting out in the entertainment industry.

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CineCentral – Where Indie Filmmakers Discover New Talent

09/02/2012 By 3 Comments

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Welcome to CineCentral! Each month Get Connected seeks independent filmmakers who have projects on the horizon for an exclusive Get Connected actor/ filmmaker networking experience. We seek to fast track rising filmmakers with rising talent! Actors need not to prepare sides or even have a monologue (though that is optional), as this is a general meet and greet. Actors, you will be meeting and dropping off your headshot to up to four indie filmmakers. Actors MUST have a professional headshot and resume in order to be seen after online sign-up.  Spots are first come first serve only. To sign-up please add your name to the list by clicking here.

If the filmmakers like your look, or they have a role for you it is up to them to contact you and setup an audition or pre-cast you.

CineCentral is a part of the “Get Connected” networking mixer. The networking mixer is $10 and features this month free indie movie screenings from local filmmakers, an industry panel, food, music, networking and then the most important element… YOU! For more info please visit the Get Connetced fanpage by clicking here. 

Meet the Filmmakers…

MARTIN KELLEY

MARTIN KELLEY is Co-Founder and Co-President of the Atlanta Screenwriters Group (ASG), one of the largest screenwriter organizations in the Southeast. After graduating from the Georgia Tech, he started two independent record labels and worked as a music journalist before writing his first screenplay and founding ASG, whose membership has grown from five members to well over 300 in the past 10 years.

Martin wrote and directed the feature Behind the Nine, and several of his short films, including Overblown, Trust Beam, Soup, Boy@nt! and The Unbearable Rightness of Diversity have won awards and appeared at many festivals.

Martin is also one of the founders and Editor-In-Chief of Cinematl.com, an online magazine focusing on filmmaking in the Southeast.

Several of his feature screenplays have been sold and produced, including Loaded Dice (Shoreline Entertainment), Vicious (M.T.I. Home Entertainment), and Immigration Tango which was released by Roadside Attractions in theaters in 2011 and is now available on DVD from Lionsgate.

He continues to produce independent projects in Atlanta like the documentary Beat Makers as well as feature film Step Off, which he also co-wrote which was released by Lionsgate and available 2/27 and 4/7 on STARZ as well as on DVD and iTunes.

He is currently in production on a new feature film called blackhats.

Producer “Step Off” formerly “Battle”
http://battlethemovie.blogspot.com/ & http://www.battle-movie.com
Co-President, Atlanta Screenwriters Group
http://www.atlscript.org
Editor-In-Chief, CinemATL
http://www.cinematl.com
Co-Writer “Immigration Tango”

 

ONDIE DANIEL

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2364035/

Ondie is a professional  Filmmaker, actress, print and promo model, director, film and video producer, AD, casting director, wardrobe stylist  and makeup artist specializing in special effects makeup and now a screen writer. She is the owner of The TFP Agency and TFP Productions. She co owns 9Cop fx and promotions and special effects team along with co partnership with 5 other film production companies. She has been in acting and dancing for over 20 yrs with a degree in theatre, dance and film production.

She has produced several projects including Little Bully short film, Mourning Road short film, The Amazing Action girls web series, Turn the Other Cheek, and The Last Call Anthology feature film. She will be producing and helping write 5 projects this year, 2 of them feature films.

She is one of the fx makeup artist ,lot actors, street reporter for the Netherworld Network and co-manages the outside promotion teams for Netherworld Haunted House.

She also stays busy having done promotional modeling and brand ambassador work for over 8 years working on such promotions such as one of the John Frieda models/shows, Turner, Cartoon network, Borghese cosmetics line model, The Walmart wellness team, several Disney promotions and the manager of the Easter Bunny set at the Mall of Ga to name a few. She leads several classes and workshops a year and private tutors in acting, dance, special effects makeup and filmmaking.

She has several merits to her full resume including being on the Emmy’s voting team and has been asked to speak at The Summer Sci Fi convention as a filmmaker .

She also is an actress with many film, television and video credits to her resume including We are Marshall, Why’d I get Married, The Drop, The Walking Dead, The Fighting Angels series, Ace The Zombie, Meet the Browns, Money, Power & Respect and several commercials.

 DAN HUNTER

Yellow Trigger Films: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iphpqxIS-Vs&feature=youtu.be

D. Aaron Hunter started Yellow Trigger Films back in December of 2007, in Orlando, FL.  To start off the Yellow Trigger Films imprint, they produced two short films in 2007 and in the beginning of 2008. The first being a short mockumentary called, ‘Cat o’ Nine Trailers’; the second a short horror titled, ‘Ginsu’.  During this time Yellow Trigger Films was gearing up for their first feature film, ‘Crockdale’, producing three web diaries leading you deep into the world of ‘Crockdale’.  The web diaries, called ‘The Crockdale Tapes’, gave an insight into the world of ‘Crockdale’, building upon a universe that would be summed up with the feature shot during the summer of 2008.Since ‘Crockdale’, Yellow Trigger Films has moved it’s home base to Atlanta, GA, producing a horror/sci-fi short titled, ‘Bad Girl’, and countless music videos, associated with S1nCity Entertainment.  Currently, Yellow Trigger Films, is molding a character drama from a novel written by D. Aaron Hunter, called ‘First Person Meets Third Person’, which will be the next feature under the YTF imprint, and another glimpse into the world that started with ‘Crockdale’.

 JESSICA “IMOTO” HARNEY

 

Jessica Imoto Harney is an in-demand Producer and Director of Photography working out of Atlanta, Georgia. Besides working on many of the shorts, features, and music videos shot in the South, Imoto runs teams of other creatives at her Captain Crazy Productions, Inc.

A Georgia State film school graduate, Imoto loves the creative challenges imposed by a wide variety of projects. She flows freely from producing to operating cameras, and has shot on nearly every format including film, DV, HDV, HD, and the Red. She is also creatively and technically adept at a wide variety of production and post production software for both PC and Mac, and is extremely talented and sought after editor.

Still, her true love is in capturing and manipulating images to tell epic stories with the simplicity and beauty of a single frame.

Imoto rarely sits still, and can almost always be found on a set working at her craft and helping share and shape a truly huge variety of projects. “The power to influence thought and explore behavior is what makes the world I live in so exciting,” Imoto says. “And the joy of collaboration and helping others achieve their visions is why I make films.”

She is also the co-founder of www.doobious.org, an online magazine that serves to promote Atlanta’s local talent.

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TAVARES WILSON

The Businessman - Mr. Wilson utilizes his knowledge and experience to build a company from the ground from a vision that he has long seen and thus prepared for. In 2005, after 5 years of navigating through the entertainment world Mr. Wilson decided that he wanted to do something different and construct a plan from his own vision that would allow him to exercise his creative desires how and when he wanted to versus waiting on or trying to pursue an opportunity instead he created one.

That being S1n-City Ent, a multi-faceted entertainment firm that works in the music and film industries was created. This afforded Mr. Wilson the opportunity to build his brand while also honing his individual talents. Since 2005, Mr. Wilson has built an impressive resume independently producing 5 music projects and 8 film projects giving Mr. Wilson the opportunity to build and grow his firm. From growth came the film production company “480INC Productions” in which Mr. Wilson also owns as well as the charity foundation “Help 1”.

The Writer holds the passion and is very near to the heart as through writing Mr. Wilson is able to transform his thoughts and vision into reality. Mr. Wilson has been mentioned in circles in Atlanta as one of the top new writers emerging out of the steadily growing Atlanta market. With a client list that is steadily growing, Mr. Wilson has written 5 films for companies outside of his own and has written 6 of the 8 films that his own company has produced.

The Actor allows Mr. Wilson to visually express and breathe life into characters that interest him.  Acting has always gone hand and hand as a passion with writing due to the fact that when writing Mr. Wilson is able to visualize himself in roles as he creates new worlds. Believing in his talents Mr. Wilson has taken on class after class in order to train and learn the craft in order to succeed in every level that he can. Viewed as a strong male lead Mr. Wilson is often cast in dramatic or suspense driven action roles as he is capable of physically delivering a commanding performance.  His onscreen presence matches his off screen demeanor as a consummate professional who enjoys life.

Training has enabled Tavares Wilson with the tools to becoming a successful Filmmaker.  His ability to take in knowledge quickly has allowed Mr. Wilson to become one of the best Filmmakers on the rise in Atlanta, GA.  Intro 2 On Camera and On Camera Acting 1 & 2 paved a path for Mr. Wilson to further his career now allowing him to share his success and insight to new Actors & Filmmakers in the industry today.

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