Costume Hunting for Comanche

This Monday I went costume hunting for our new short Comanche with Rob Edwards and Michael Coleman. Rob tried on a bunch of different cowboy outfits and we argued about Westerns. It was a good time. Mardi Gras Costume Shop is a great place for any filmmaker to look...

The Importance of Shorts

Not long after we finished shooting our first feature, The Big Something, a fellow filmmaker was in shock to hear that I still wanted to make short films. I was equally baffled. Had all these movies, these stories I’d told been stepping stones to a higher level...

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...

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...