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.
Beyond remembering Spit and Dan
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.
Top Lessons I Learned Making My First Documentary Film
Why am I just now posting the finished video containing these filmmaking lessons in January 2023? Beats the heck out of me.
My Fantastic Four Film Pitch
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 […]
The Evolution of My Low-Budget Filmmaking Kit
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.
Pj Teaches the Art of Procrastination
As I detailed in a recent video blog, at any given time, I’m sitting on a few dozen ideas for various creative projects–films, songs, videos, articles, whatever. They can range from a few words tapped out quickly in an email or brainstormed notes in my phone to fully developed pitches and halfway finished screenplays. Sometimes […]