The Liberation of Cinema

For me, the two great liberators of cinema are John Cassavetes and Jean-Luc Godard. Why do I call them “liberators”? Because they both took movies from the studios to the streets. They revolutionized how we make films and demonstrated that all you need to...

I Want to Know Why: An Unfinished Story

Months ago, I tried to adapt Sherwood Anderson’s short story “I Want to Know Why”. The concept was a fractured narrative taking place in three places and shot with three different cameras. One: imagines of a horse. Two: blurred images of a writer at...

Announcing Running Wild Films’ 2012 Plan

As 2011 comes to an end, we can look back on a productive year. At Running Wild, we produced our debut feature, along with many shorts and before the year comes to a close we will be in production on our second feature. Here is a glimpse at what we will be working on...

Hate Mail

If there’s anything I enjoy as much as a good review, it’s a bad one. Resistance and opposition are fuel to the fire. At Running Wild, we are not attempting to please everyone. We don’t aim to be polite. We want to tell good stories. We’ll work...

The Return of GUERRILLASTAR

Before there was Running Wild Films, Dave Surber and I made movies under the name Guerrillastar. We produced a few shorts. Two of them (Bloody Basin and The Ruffians) were screened at the AZ Underground Film Festival. Dave moved to New York a little while ago but...