by Travis Mills | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Matt Johnson leading the band in the opening sequence of the film
by Travis Mills | Jan 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Scott and Eddie talking about “dead things” at the jazz bar (The Lost Leaf)
by Travis Mills | Dec 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
by Travis Mills | Dec 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
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....
by Travis Mills | Dec 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
by Travis Mills | Nov 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
