Cinematographer Notes

Drawing With Chalk will not be screening at the Tarrytown Music Hall.  The date we picked of the 12th was firm booked for us by the box office manager and then ripped out from under us by some film production company doing a shoot at the music hall.  Given what the music hall charges to […]

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It’s official.  The first public screening of Drawing With Chalk is scheduled at the Tarrytown Music Hall on Dec 12 at 7pm.  All are welcome to attend but please drop me an email to let me know so we have an idea of how many are attending.  focus(at)ccpfilms(dot)com. There will be some kind of celebration […]

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As some of you know I have three features that will be heading out and making their scary journey through the film festival circuit.  Sundance announces their 16 films soon enough.  Right, like I’m really expecting much there.  9000 entries and 16 slots.  Those slots, like the hotel rooms were booked a year ago.
I’ve recently […]

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When I was in film school, I was told that part of the process of preproduction involved assembling “tear-sheets”.  These were images taken from magazines or books that you will use as a visual reference to give those working on your film, an aesthetic framework from which to build on.  The production designer, cinematographer, wardrobe […]

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All items must go!
Tungsten Package $800:
Two 2k Mole 412 Juniors, Two Colortran 1K broads, One 1K Colortran Baby Fresnel
Mobile Carts for trucks or vans $600:
One 5×2 foot 2 shelved collapsable Metro Cart with 4 rotating Pneumatic stem caster tires
One 18×24 4 shelf collapsable Metro Cart with 4 stem casters.  3 basket shelves
One 2 shelved collapsable […]

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Nothing new to report on Find Replace.  There’s no real producing element involved so it’s back to the drawing board.  I’m glad I have this script ready to go in the event I find myself in the position to make my own feature but I’m realistic enough to know that this won’t be for a […]

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Bagged and Boarded had been retitled to  Purgatory Comics.  I spent today color correcting the film with the director Ralph Suarez.  We’re almost done.  I got about an hour into it.  I’ll go back this week to finish it off.  I’m truly shocked at how on the money we were with the initial image.  I […]

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The Pioneer Theater on 3rd st in NYC closes it’s doors for good tonight.  I’m very sad about this cause it represents a diminishing resource of venues for actually independent films.  I’ve seen quite a few of the films I’ve shot projected at Pioneer and although it’s a small theater, it’s tucked away in one […]

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I haven’t reviewed too many films lately.  Partly because I’ve been sidetracked with episodic television.  The third season of Lost kept me busy for a while and I’ve actually gone through all 4 seasons of Six Feet Under and am currently halfway through season 5.  I’ve seen SFU twice before and this is my third […]

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What Actually Happened was a comedy about a movie producer sweating the release of his last project which seems to have flopped in test screenings.  This was an interesting idea that didn’t really get explored very well.  As a satire of hollywood, it’s nowhere near as complicated or interesting as Altmans, The Player.  The worst […]

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