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...

A Screenplay Reading

It seems a long time ago that I sat down with a group of actors and read through the screenplay for The Big Something. But it was only last December. We crowded the lobby of Phoenix’s Space 55 and played through what would be Running Wild’s first feature....

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...