Action Film Challenge
& our film
DAMAGED
I am on it!
I am on it!
Never before have I felt such a desire and longing to secure
the future for those around me. For the past few months I feel I have been
going non-stop. School, family, and outside projects seem to fill every waking
moment. I tend to come home for a moment and see my wife just as I am leaving
again.
Yup! That look comes out and I spot it in the corner of her
eye! She won’t say anything because we signed up for this and she knows we are
working now to enjoy later. The problem is, that there are those around me that
just don’t see the same things I do.
Or, perhaps, they just don’t have the same passion for the vision that I
do. Either way it is hard to work with those that don’t get it.
Maybe it is because I am older or maybe because I have seen
way more than a 36 year old should but either way my passion outshines 99% of
them. So far there is one kid (I say that loosely) he is 19 but he has the
drive of a 30 year old and the ability to compete with anyone he chooses. He
reads, he studies, he competes and he does not whine about what he is doing and
nor does he ask for a day off. He is jumping ahead of classes and securing his
ability to gain knowledge faster than those around him. Hell, to be honest I
look up to him! Never before have I seen such hunger in a young man and never
before have I been so impressed.
This is not to say I do not get frustrated with him or even
want to strangle him at times. I will say however that I have learned more from
this young man than anyone else in a long time. Facts be told my mentor (my
father) had me at times wanting to strangle him too. I feel it is the nature of
learning. In order to truly respect it you almost need to despise the vessel
from which it is being dispensed. My father and I argued yet we always took
time to hear what was said. I thank him for beating the issue of respect in me
because today I am able to respect someone 17 years my junior.
So why all this explanation of work, work, work, and the
slacker with which I am working with.
To be perfectly honest… SALES
On July 15th a movie that this young man and I
made will be on the screen in Tampa, Fl.
Here is the address!
The Screening
11am - 5pm
Sunday, July 15th, 2012
Tampa Pitcher Show
14416 N. Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa, FL -
(813) 963-0578
I have a lot of passion for this project only because it is
truly my first project outside of school that I have undertaken. This film has
been a huge learning experience and I feel this will be the mark that I hold
all other personal productions to. So please feel free to come out and support
your local filmmaker and student while you are entertained by 20 other films as
well.
This is the criteria we had to follow.
1.
30 days
to write, shoot, edit, and deliver your 10 minute film
(* at least 10 minutes, but no longer
than 15 minutes including credits.)
2.
Any Genre
– at least (1) Action scene
3.
Must
include each and every unique character, line of dialogue, prop, and situation
specified on the first day of the challenge.
4.
Films
must be no higher than PG-13
(no nudity, no drug usage, no sex scenes, language appropriate
for PG-13)
[To spell it out - the only foul language acceptable is
"Hell and Damn"]
Your film has to meet the criteria to be
broadcast on local television.
I want to thank you. Between this film (Damaged) and The
Magic Voice, to be aired soon we are pushing our craft hard. I am looking
forward to doing great things with this young man and I am sure you will look
forward to the finished product.
Until next time…
