The Running Wild Blog
Articles on the craft of filmmaking and the films we create.
YouTube Milestone: Therapist 2 Surpasses Two Million Views
Therapist 2 Surpasses Two Million Views You never know what's going to do well on YouTube. None of our short films have received a generous helping of views up front. It took months for The Table Affair took off, now nearing 10 million views. It's nice to see that a...
Fox News Interview: Actor Raymond Soutullo on Blood Country
Actor Raymond Soutullo Talks About Blood Country on Fox News Raymond Soutullo appears in both Blood Country and Cornbread Cosa Nostra, our new film set for release in Summer of 2018. Here is his interview with Fox News talking about the films. FOX10 News | WALA Blood...
“Poignant, gripping”: A New Review of Blood Country
Film Critic Nick Spake calls Blood Country "poignant, gripping, and ultimately rewarding" in his recent review. Here is another excerpt from his thoughts on the film. Blood Country has echoes of several other films that came out in 2017. The murder at the center of...
12 Westerns New Mexico Casting Call: Sides for Actors
New Mexico Casting Call: Sides for Actors As we posted on the Facebook Event Page, we will have an open casting call on January 20th at Far Horizon Studio in Albuquerque from 10am to 3pm for the 12 Westerns in 12 Months Project. There are no appointments/reservations...
Filmmaker Goals: 2018
Beyond the films I plan to produce and release in 2018, there are a few specific goals I want to achieve this year to further my career as a filmmaker. 1. Break into the Foreign Market For a while, the most untapped source of income for our movies has been the foreign...
1st Casting Call Announced for Our New Film: Son of a Gun
Casting Call in Vicksburg, Mississippi for Son of a Gun We are proud to partner with The Strand Theatre in Vicksburg for the first casting call for our new movie Son of a Gun on January 26th. The film will start production in April. Visit our Facebook Event page here....
How to Make a Low-Budget Film – Episode 1: Write What You Have
How to Make a Low-Budget Film A New Video Series with Filmmaker Travis Mills In Episode 1, I talk about the strategy of writing what you know when developing a script for a low or microbudget movie. For a Skype session to learn more about how to make low-budget films,...
No Rest for the Wild: A Look Back at 2017
No Rest for the Wild A Look Back at 2017 I'd be lying if I said it isn't hard to look back on this year and put it in perspective. But these words now are important however subjective they might be, if only to be read years down the line by me or anyone else. 2017...
Slices of Cornbread: To Live and Die in Biloxi
What You Should Know About Our New Film – Part Three Jared Kovacs (Director of Photography) and I watched a lot of movies to prepare for Cornbread Cosa Nostra but one was more influential than any other: To Live and Die in L.A. This 1980s masterpiece...
HORROR STORIES: Icy Waterfall
HORROR STORIES: On the Set of Bride of Violence This series is a record of the wild events which took place during the filming of Bride of Violence in early 2017. Story 4: Icy Waterfall This will be the last of my recollections of our near-death experiences while...
