Pj Perez

Back in October 2021, right in middle of the premiere events for Parkway of Broken Dreams, I joined a crew of local filmmakers to help make a short film called Miracle Baby, which is now finally available to watch online.

Two days have gone by since I launched the first crowdfunding campaign for Murdered on the Fourth of July and I have not posted a single thing about it here–until now.

When Lin (better known to friends and enemies alike as “Spit”) Newborn and Daniel Shersty were murdered by neo-Nazi skinheads in the early hours of July 4, 1998, it shook our little community of artists and activists in Las Vegas.

Why am I just now posting the finished video containing these filmmaking lessons in January 2023? Beats the heck out of me.

In case you’re stumbling upon this website without somehow having already seen this on social media, an email newsletter or your local PBS station, my new documentary film Parkway of Broken Dreams is now available for download, streaming and DVD purchase.

Parkway of Broken Dreams is having its world premiere in Las Vegas on October 13 at 8 p.m. inside the Galaxy Theatres Boulevard Mall, located right at the corner of Maryland Parkway and Twain Avenue, because of course it is.

Sometimes, I come up with an idea, and I just won’t let it go. Sometimes, I slowly massage it over more than a decade, and it ends up becoming a feature-length documentary. In the case of my latest foray into the YouTubeVerse, it became a 25-minute-long visual treatment for a movie featuring intellectual property for […]

I’ve been creating videos and films for many years now–if you dig back far enough, ever since I picked up my family’s Super 8 camcorder back in the early 1980s–but it’s really only in the last four years or so that I’ve amassed anything close to a proper “kit” of production gear.