The Running Wild Blog
Articles on the craft of filmmaking and the films we create.Production Wraps on The Detective’s Lover
We are happy to announce that production has wrapped for The Detective's Lover, the second feature-length movie from Running Wild to be shot in less than a year. After a month of shooting and hard-work from cast and crew, we have completed principal photography on...
Midway Through Production on The Detective’s Lover
This morning we leave for Winslow, a small town in Northern Arizona, to shoot a large portion of The Detective's Lover. It marks the midway point (two thirds, really) of our production. We will wrap on Jan. 8th and shooting on our second feature will be complete. It...
The Detective’s Lover: Production Begins
In the last hours of pre-production as I looked over today's script and schedule, a great Film Noir played in the background: Chinatown. The day after we finished shooting The Big Something, I started work on The Detective's Lover. At first, it was just a notion, a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 with anyone with the...
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...
