by Travis Mills | Jun 3, 2012 | Upcoming Projects
We would like to announce another upcoming project from Running Wild Films. DERBY: a movie about Corey Busboom and Dirty Steve building and crashing demolition derby cars in Phoenix, Arizona. At Running Wild Films, we are interested in telling stories, in making...
by Travis Mills | Apr 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
I shot a scene from a new short film called Therapist the other night. I cast Michael Coleman and Jessica Bishop months ago. They were given only an outline: three paragraphs with a vague description of the story. When Jessica sent me a list of questions, I told her...
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 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Before there was Running Wild Films, Dave Surber and I made movies under the name Guerrillastar. We produced a few shorts. Two of them (Bloody Basin and The Ruffians) were screened at the AZ Underground Film Festival. Dave moved to New York a little while ago but...
by Travis Mills | Oct 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
A week ago I dug through a collection of DVDs I owe to Mark Wright (patron of cinema) and found some films by F.W. Murnau I hadn’t scene. If you’re not familiar with Murnau, he was a pioneer of cinema; a German director responsible for Nosferatu (the first...
