Five years after starting my original acting website, I’ve finally come to a point where the time it takes to maintain and update a conventional site or a flash site is more than I am willing to spend. Thankfully, the good people who create WordPress templates were listening.
The independent film production company that I work with in Phoenix has a new website. Catbrain Film Factory was created by Paul Hoeprich in 2005, and I have been working with them since 2007. From writing to cinematography to sheer audacity, Catbrain is a truly exceptional and unique film company.
I was invited by the talented folks at Synthetic Human Pictures to do an online interview for their news section, which features local Phoenix talent. The Synthetics do some superb cutting edge, story-driven shorts and features.
These three Volkswagen spots were filmed in Mesa, AZ – but were for VW Canada. You see, there is nowhere on the eastern 2/3 of the continent where they can reliably film a commercial with spring ambience in March, so they cart the entire production out to Arizona. Works for me.
This was once of those instances where you overextend yourself, and yet it pays off. I was in two 48-hour films for the Almost Famous Film Festival (A3F), and they both came up big. One was a beautifully shot sci-fi noir called ‘The Fourth Reich’, and then there was this gem called ‘Team U’.