The Running Wild Blog
Articles on the craft of filmmaking and the films we create.Running Wild Interviews Henry Jaglom
This is the first in a series of interviews that Running Wild Films is conducting with the most important independent filmmakers working today. Like us, these people strive to make cinema outside the boundaries of conventional means. We are happy to start with the man...
I Wish Filmmakers Were Shooting Each Other in the Streets
I wish filmmakers were shooting each other in the streets. I'm not exaggerating. What I'm talking about is the great void of real blood competition that present cinema lacks. And that attitude that I seek exists and thrives within rap culture. Perhaps more in its...
The Screenplay for Burial Grounds: An Unfinished Movie
Some movies don't come together. I think some stories have their time, perhaps the time passes and it isn't right to tell the story anymore. Maybe one day the time comes again when the story should be told. A little while back, I tried to tell a story called Burial...
Running Wild presents: Last Kiss at Sunset
We present our newest movie. Dean Veglia and Sandy Kim played the man and woman. It was made on one Sunday in April in a studio apartment in Mesa, Arizona. Jason Cowan shot the movie and Travis Mills directed it. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/22499656]
The Visual Novel
We embark on a new direction for cinema. We stretch the medium. What does length signify? Why is it important that we have "short movies" and "feature-length movies"? And why is it important that a feature-length movie run approximately from 90 to 120 minutes? In the...
What Makes a Good Crew
Just as I would have any actor that ever worked with us watch the movie His Girl Friday, I'd want anyone on our crew to see Only Angels Have Wings. Both movies were directed by Howard Hawks and pretty much every movie Hawks made had something to do with...
Abandoned Arizona: The Stadium and Sherwood Anderson Production
Located off the 10 on anyone's drive to or from L.A. is a relic of the past. A stadium, abandoned, except by birds and those who find it an irresistible discovery. I visited it first years ago, bent on exploring this skeleton of yesteryear. I've heard many stories...
Blind Man Journal by Jason Cowan, Cinematographer
Blind Man Journal by Jason Cowan, Cinematographer I’m sure many have viewed the interesting film, The Blind Man. A soldier who returns from war finds himself in another world. His injuries are to the cranial area, and his eyes are protected by a bandage. Travis both...
Watch D.H. Lawrence’s The Blind Man
The first in our series of adaptations from public domain literature, we present D.H. Lawrence's The Blind Man. It was shot in one day in Mesa, Arizona with a budget under $100. The movie was made by Michael Coleman, Jason Cowan, McKenzie Goodwin, Travis Mills, and...
Photos from the set of D.H. Lawrence’s The Blind Man
Here are some glimpses at our most recent production: These images where taken by the movie's cameraman, Jason Cowan.
