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.

Monday, April 8, 2013

NAB Show 2013, Las Vegas

April 8, 2013
Today, in Los Angeles, I am enjoying information content from the NAB Show in Las Vegas. I feel that it informs my work as an actor to be familiar with the technologies involved in screen storytelling.
My three sons, Emile Hanton, jon mocey-hanton and Paul Mocey-Hanton are at NAB Show this week. Emile is attending as Executive Producer of the creative agency, Snack Haus, http://snackhaus.com/ and jon and Paul are working at the Canon booth all week. http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/professional

About NAB Show
NAB Show, held April 6-11, 2013 in Las Vegas, is the world's largest electronic media show covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums. With more than 90,000 attendees from 151 countries and 1,600+ exhibitors, NAB Show is the ultimate marketplace for digital media and entertainment. From creation to consumption, across multiple platforms and countless nationalities, NAB Show is home to the solutions that transcend traditional broadcasting and embrace content delivery to new screens in new ways. Complete details are available at www.nabshow.com.

About NAB
The National Association of Broadcasters is the premier advocacy association for America's broadcasters. NAB advances radio and television interests in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. Through advocacy, education and innovation, NAB enables broadcasters to best serve their communities, strengthen their businesses and seize new opportunities in the digital age. Learn more at www.nab.org.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

I appreciate being appreciated.

Shawn W. Lanz, Conejo Players Theatre, Executive Producer and 2012 14 Year Award recipient presents Regina Mocey with a 2012 volunteer appreciation award.

March 24th, 2013, Conejo Players Theatre held its 38th Annual Harlequin Awards Banquet -- which celebrates the accomplishments of volunteers by recognizing how many years they've been involved at the theatre.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

LOCAL TV AND ME

Me and the family television set, Philadelphia, in the early 1950's.

     This week my sister sent me word from Philly that Sally Starr, one of our childhood local TV personalities had passed away.  The news sent me on a journey to re-discover the personalities who had entertained me as a child on local television and led me to reflect on my own experiences with local TV.

Sally Starr

     I recalled that my Mom and Dad had taken me as a child to WCAU TV's new, state of the art production center, (the first building in America constructed specifically for broadcasting. Channel 10 is still headquartered there) to appear on the Willie the Worm show - my first time in a local TV studio.

WCAU AM-FM-TV BROADCAST & PRODUCTION CENTER - CITY LINE AVENUE - 1958
                                                                      WCAU-TV, Channel 10's Willie the Worm. 

     My research revealed that --
William Wright, the voice and creator of Willie the Worm, reported on the WCAU 40th anniversary special "The First 40 Years", which aired on WCAU-TV in 1988: "I walked in to a Pep Boys just searching blindly for something and I found some air intake hose which would be big enough to put my arm through. And I cut it apart and you know it looked like a worm. And that's how it really became Willie the Worm."

     
     I remember the bright lights, sitting on the bleachers with the other children, the controlled chaos before the cameras rolled.  I was enchanted.

Philly's Ch. 17's Wee Willie Weber and his "Peanut Gallery"

     In the '70's when I started my career In Hartford I worked at the studios of Connecticut Public Television to tape Hartford Stage's production of Edward Albee's All Over which aired nationally on Theatre in America.  The first time one of the author's works was filmed for television.  Also at Connecticut Public Television I appeared in two episodes of Mundo Real, Connecticut Public Television’s situation comedy/drama about a Puerto Rican family living in an urban barrio on the mainland, which became the first Spanish-English bilingual television series produced for American television.





 Years later, when I returned to my professional acting career in Los Angeles after raising my sons, again I would sit in the studio audience for a TV show, shown nationally on ABC, to be sure, and I was a paid participant but I was still enchanted with the process.  This time it was --
a taping of "Life with Bonnie", a TV show about a TV show, and I was playing an audience member.

      Then I discovered community access at my local cable TV studio and I became a TV producer/actor/director for 9 episodes, produced over three years, of "Readers Theater Television".

  Regina directing the cast of "Readers Theater Television",
 2008,
 at 
TimeWarner 25 studio in Westlake Village, CA

     Which brings me around to now and my work with CityTV of Santa Monica.  In December 2012 I shot a PSA for The Center for Civic Mediation at the new studio of CityTV of Santa Moncia.  It has been 60 years from my first local TV experience to now but I am still as enchanted and thrilled.  Tonight I attend a receiption and screening of the 2012 PSA's produced by CityTV of Santa Monica.
Willie the Worm, Mom and Dad, I hope you are proud of me.


a screen capture from the Public Service Announcement for The Center for Civic Mediation, a project I worked on, produced by CityTV of Santa Monica and Women In Film

     

  

     

Thursday, January 24, 2013

OH, WHAT TO WEAR TO A SCREENING?

I've been invited to attend a reception for and screening of the public service announcement I appeared in which was produced by CityTV of Santa Monica and Women in Film for the Center for Civic Mediation.

What shall I wear?





About CityTV 16 of Santa Monica

Women In Film Los Angeles, founded in 1973, provides for members an extensive network of contacts, educational programs, scholarships, film finishing funds and grants, access to employment opportunities, mentorships and numerous practical services in support of this mission.
The Center for Civic Mediation provides mediation services throughout the community and on school campuses. We teach youth and adults skills to resolve conflict in a constructive, practical and non-violent manner.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Project to finish out 2012.

Here is the full video of the Public Service Announcemet I did produced by Santa Monica CityTV and Women In Film. I'm the old lady who gets wet.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Booked four days with CARMIND this spring!

Fortunately for me the four days of work with CARMIND fell in between my out of town travel days.  As "Hannibal" from The A-Team liked to say, "I love it when a plan comes together!"

http://www.carmind.com/floor_mat_bandit/

(from the CARMIND website, Regina Mocey, far left, on set, with cast-mates, CARMIND production studio, Chatsworth, CA)