The Running Wild Blog

Articles on the craft of filmmaking and the films we create.

Stalk Directors and Actors

To learn, I recommend that we become stalkers. Filmmakers (and I mean actors, directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, etc.) need an insatiable appetite for cinema. It's not enough to take small bites, you must have a ravenous hunger to watch/listen/learn. I'm...

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Kurosawa Pioneers Perspective in Cinema

Perspective is often ignored by directors. Movies are stories and a story must be told by someone but most of the time in cinema we are provided a convenient, all-seeing eye into the lives and actions of characters. However, some great directors have not settled for...

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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 make good...

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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 work. Three: a...

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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 with anyone with the...

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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...

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