The Running Wild Blog
Articles on the craft of filmmaking and the films we create.Detective’s Lover Screenplay Reading
On August 14th, the Running Wild crew met with our prospective cast at Gideon's Coffee in downtown Phoenix to conduct a full length reading of The Detective's Lover. It showed us many of the movie's strengths and weaknesses and confirmed our instincts about its cast....
A Screenplay Reading
It seems a long time ago that I sat down with a group of actors and read through the screenplay for The Big Something. But it was only last December. We crowded the lobby of Phoenix's Space 55 and played through what would be Running Wild's first feature. Gus Edwards...
Night Train to…
A couple months ago at the Tempe library with film patron Mark Wright, I spotted a DVD for a movie called Night Train. It looked cheap, old, and no good. I could tell from the back that it was Polish, made around the same time as Knife in the Water. I showed Mark and...
Running Wild Interviews Joe Swanberg
Joe Swanberg is a true independent. His work stands as a testament to taking advantage of limitations, bending and breaking methods of storytelling, and expanding the way movies are produced and distributed. Whether his films belong to the "mumblecore" movement or...
Running Wild Wins IFP 48 Hour Film Challenge
Left to right: James Alire (Sound), Jordan Gorla (Cinematographer), Webb Pickersgill (IFP), and Travis Mills (Director) The Running Wild Films team took home the top prize at the IFP 48 Hour Film Challenge this weekend for our film titled Shine Like Gold. Assembled by...
Two Voices
Let me tell you a little about Two Voices. One of Gus Edwards' monologue projects, he first cast Dean Veglia and Scott Scheall from our work with them in other movies. From there, rehearsals began and characters were developed. Gus and I started to flesh out these...
Casting for The Detective’s Lover: Our Next Feature Film
We have begun casting for our next feature film, The Detective's Lover. This is a modern Film Noir about a journalist who becomes embroiled in a web of crime and sex when he investigates a detective and his mistress. We are holding auditions on July 31st by...
AZ Kaos Interview with Travis Mills of Running Wild
Pete Etep of AZ Kaos, a punk rock blog, has published an interview with Travis Mills of Running Wild Films about filmmaking in Arizona and Running Wild's recent feature The Big Something. The whole interview can be read here and we have included some excerpts below:...
Filming Finished on the Big Something: The First Feature from Running Wild
We recently wrapped production on our first feature length movie, The Big Something. With help from Lucky Dawg Studios, we completed filming in fourteen days this June. The movie is currently being edited by Travis Mills and Todd Hunt, and is set for an Arizona and...
A Noir Experiment
This is our first effort to compete in the Vimeo community with their Weekend Project for a one to two minute short in the Film Noir genre. The only requirement was it had to be shot in black and white and exist as much variation of Noir. Here is the short, produced...
