snow, funding and crew bios

pushing ahead, feels like i lost a week because of the snow and having the flu. being in bed for 3 days or more is no fun.  lots of prep work being done while the snows on the ground.  funding packet is nearing completion with some great input from friends Monika Bhow and Katy Eagleston. a logo design is being prepped by my good friend Jeff Snodgrass and production design meeting is imminent.  also, as soon as the snow clears, Charles and i will be off location scouting, shooting for the weekend after this one.

so far in crew we have a lot of good people on board.  here's some info on them:

Charles Elmore Director of Photography

Charles is a filmmaker from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has worked from the ground up on everything from commercials and music videos to feature films. He once worked in the art department on an indie film that featured an as yet undiscovered Anna Faris (she's famous now). Recently, he has worked as a Director of Photography on short films and music videos with directors Matt Leach and Christopher Long as well as vérité documentaries for This Land Press with Sterlin Harjo and Matt Leach. He has also written and directed a feature length film currently in post-production.

Matt Leach First Assistant Camera

Matt is a filmmaker working and living in Oklahoma. His music videos and short films have been featured on MTV2 and in overseas film festivals. His video for Evangelicals 'Midnight Vignette' was voted one of the top 25 indie videos of 2008 by MTV2. In 2010 Another music video “The Gym is All She Has” for Man Branch was selected and shown at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas.

Matt Phipps Second Assistant Camera

Matt is a visual craftsman from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has created a skateboarding tour de force with his Get Your Kicks skateboarding website and long form video as well as worked as a director on several commercials and short films. Matt once weighed over 300 pounds but with his own handcrafted diet of lean pockets, healthy choice soup and sit ups; he lost over 100 pounds and now looks like a beanpole.

Ryan Haines Post Production Supervisor

Ryan is co-owner of Slackcircus Studios, a post-production studio based in Dallas, Texas. Slackcircus specializes in design, direction, motion graphics, and 2D animation, serving clients across the electronic entertainment industry, a.k.a video games. With over 13 years of post-production experience and the successful development of his own company, there's still nothing Ryan would rather do than grind away on that perfect sky replacement, composite a fake explosion or bring any computer to a halt with an unreal expectation of just how many particles is too many.

Jeremiah Maloney Assistant Director

Jeremiah is a one-man army. From shooting, to editing to producing to everything in between, Jeremiah has done it all.  His strength is getting people motivated and organizing a set to its utmost efficiency.  He’s worked on films, music videos, live productions, commercials and documentaries gaining valuable experience each time.

also involved but without bios are:  

Erin Turner Production Designer

and

Daniel Sutliff Music Composer

stay tuned, meetings coming up this weekend.