The Detective’s Lover: Production Begins

In the last hours of pre-production as I looked over today’s script and schedule, a great Film Noir played in the background: Chinatown. The day after we finished shooting The Big Something, I started work on The Detective’s Lover. At first, it was just a...

Stalk Directors and Actors

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....

The Liberation of Cinema

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...

I Want to Know Why: An Unfinished Story

Months ago, I tried to adapt Sherwood Anderson’s short story “I Want to Know Why”. The concept was a fractured narrative taking place in three places and shot with three different cameras. One: imagines of a horse. Two: blurred images of a writer at...

Announcing Running Wild Films’ 2012 Plan

As 2011 comes to an end, we can look back on a productive year. At Running Wild, we produced our debut feature, along with many shorts and before the year comes to a close we will be in production on our second feature. Here is a glimpse at what we will be working on...