The Running Wild Blog

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

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...

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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...

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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...

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