Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Feature Film Filmmakers of My Acquaintance


Beth Dewey was born in Alaska and educated at the University of Colorado, Boulder and San Francisco State University. Her real education came when she started working for Roger Corman on B movies. From there, Beth went on to earn three prime time Emmys in picture editing for her work on the Oscars.  Deeply committed to filmmaking since 1998, Beth has made several short films and two micro budget features, TWEEKED and KILL HOUSE which have screened at numerous festivals and venues like the American Cinematheque. Her first feature TWEEKED won Best Actress at the Brussels Independent film festival and was nominated for a Prism award. Beth is particularly inspired to make films about the female experience. Most recently, she directed the web series SHADOWLANDS and a music video for THE LONELY TREES.
Beth is currently in post production on her feature DUMPED and in development on the feature project PIMP GIRL about a gang of thieves who gain access to homes by way of an escort service. http://www.fabulocityfilms.com

I am featured in Beth’s film KILL HOUSE and was a background extra for the still-to-be-released film, DUMPED.


Regina Mocey in KILL HOUSE



In JESSICA RENSLOW's own words she is "a filmmaker and educator" who strives  "to create interesting, compelling movies, television shows and immersive multimedia programs."  She believes "that modest budgets do not constitute a compromised quality of storytelling." 
Contact jessierenslow@gmail.com, or go to almostfairytalesfilms.com for more information.

I am featured in Jessica's feature film EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE. 





Michael Mohan's SAVE THE DATE premiered in dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film, starring Lizzy Caplan & Alison Brie, was co-written by graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown & Egan Reich, and released by IFC Films.
In 2011, his short film EX-SEX premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and played several other festivals around the world including SXSW and AFI Fest. The film was featured on the Viewfinders list as one of the 10 best short films of the year.
His first feature film, the microbudget ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. It was self-released, with theatrical engagements all across the country, including a sold out showing at the Cinefamily in Los Angeles.
In between films, Michael has directed numerous music videos, working with such bands as FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS, MINUS THE BEAR, and SEA WOLF among others.
I was a background extra for ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS.



Marc Clebanoff, founder of Odyssey Motion Pictures. His company, is rapidly becoming a reputable and respectable full service resource for independent filmmakers, incorporating equipment rentals, tools to aide indie producers, and the company is developing a job board for actors and independent producers, as well as original software for production managers.
Graduated from the USC School of Cinema Television.
Co-Chairman of IndieCon, a monthly entertainment seminar series held in Hollywood, CA.
I am featured in Marc’s comedy, GERALD.

Tim Everitt is a Visual Effects Artist and Animator who has made commercials for national accounts such as 3M, Union Oil, Ford, and Nissan, as well as local work, such as Seattle's Entertainment Music Project. In addition to broadcast spots, he has served as an Animator on major Hollywood feature films such as Pirates of the Caribbean, and as Animation Supervisor and Compositing Supervisor on pictures like The Guardian, The Last Samurai, Collateral Damage, and Blood Diamond. He has also created visual effects for television, including The Ghost Whisperer and Birds of Prey.
I appear in Tim’s film, TREES GROW TALL AND THEN THEY FALL.


Writer/director Anthony Fankhauser started with The Asylum, www.theasylum.cc, in 2006 as a line producer.  For the next three years he served in that capacity - meanwhile releasing his writing/directing debut, the non-Asylum Tsunami Beach Club before finally getting a chance to assume a creative role and write and direct his own Asylum feature, 2012: Supernova. From there he would produce another nine Asylum films in two years, as well as write and direct Gacy House
Mr. Fankhauser, is the writer/director of the horror film/Judd Nelson vehicle, Shadow People, (aka GRIZZLY FLATS) as well as producer of the fantasy film Jabberwocky, directed by Steven R. Monroe.


I appear in Anthony’s as yet unreleased film SHADOW PEOPLE.






Edgar Muniz was born in Anaheim, CA. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish and a Master’s Degree in English from Cal State Fullerton University. His fascination with film began at a very young age. As an only child, he spent much of his youth on his own watching movies and obsessing over how they were made. When he’d spend summers at his cousin’s house in Hawaiian Gardens, they'd take his Dad's Hi-8 camcorder and make
short films around the neighborhood and in their backyard. As he grew older, Muniz’s fascination with film became a deeper passion and love for the art of filmmaking. Influenced by the complexities, power and possibilities of cinema, he began to make more ambitious and personal films. Film became a medium through which he could explore what’s most important and interesting to him. He currently teaches English at Mt. San Antonio College and is working on his fifth feature-length film.

http://somuchmovies.weebly.com/

I worked on Edgar’s latest feature film project, FAMOUS JAMES, now in post production.

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