ESSENCE

 

So, I posted a little about a movie I shot, but am having an emotional problem completing in post, due to a nasty falling out with a person involved with the film. 

https://youtu.be/ckXTzG6_Uxg

Here is a preview of what it looked like. I'm sure most are going to think its stupid....

Oddities and Curiosities Expo

 A few weeks ago, I attended the Oddities and Curiosities Expo in Indianapolis.  Its basically a flea market of weird stuff. Taxidermy. Dark art. A lot of horror themed stuff. 

Made a few purchases. I had an incredible time there. Felt good to go to a convention setting, after everything was postponed lady year.  The last two pictures are what I purchased. Weird Lovecraftian creature, and a hidden mask from Nepal. 

AKA MANTO Gets an Honorable Mention in Top Five Screenplays

My feature screenplay. AKA MANTO: DREAD FLUSH, gets an Honorable Mention in the Top Five Screenplays at Zed Fest Film Festival's Screenplay Competition.

http://www.zedfest.org/enterzedfestnowfeaturescreenplay.html

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR
ZED FEST FILM FESTIVAL 2015
SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS

1st Place
The Lurking Man
Maritza Brikisak

2nd Place
Infectious or Squid-Tongue Sleep walking Monster Apocalypse
Janet Hetherington


2015 HONORABLE MENTIONS

Within These Walls Tracie Jules

Aka Manto: Dread Flush Jeff Kacmarynski

Hell On Neptune Robert Rogers

Equation David Maddox


Deadly Entanglement Gregory Wolk

Cracked Mirror Robert G. Christie

The Seed Anthony Mezza

Crummville Diana Woody

It's Not About Bigfoot Mindy Bledsoe

Please visit us at www.zedfest.org for more information

'Dread Flush' sample

Here's a brief snippet from a draft of my screenplay DREAD FLUSH.
I see writers posting small samples of written stories and other works a lot. While I realize this is unorthodox for screenwriters, I thought I'd give it a shot!
Thanks for reading.
Just trying to keep the nightmares real.

Some pretty exciting things have gone down and are currently going down.

BRINE screened at the following festivals: HP Lovecraft Film Fest, Rock and Shock, Zed Fest Film Festival, and Freeky Creek Film Festival and The Night of Horror Film Festival / Fantastic Planet Horror Sci- Fi and Fantasy Fest.BRINE also received an award at the Zed Fest Film Festival for *Screen Story*. I think that's a way of saying screenplay....perhaps?

BRINE has made its way online now...so here is * Brine *  if ,anyone reading this, so wishes to watch it.

SPEAKING IN TONGUES is another short screenplay I wrote, that has been made into a film. This is an attempt at something a little lighter and still slightly, in the realm of Lovecraft. It screened at the Freeky Creek Film Festival in October. I'm not sure if it will be making the rounds next year to any other festivals, so here is Speaking in Tongues , if anyone would like to watch.

In other screenwriting news, my screenplay AKA MANTO: DREAD FLUSH, is a finalist in the Zed Fest Film Festival's 2015 Screenplay Competition. Somehow, I managed to get in next to some heavy hitters and talent in screenwriting and the festival circuit. Congrats to them all, as well.

Here is the link  to the list of Finalist Screenplays!!

I'm also trying another attempt at a short film, early next year. So, hopefully this will work out and we'll have a darkly funny, disturbing super short film to show anyone who is reading this, in 2016.

Thanks for reading, if you are. Have a great  whatever Winter Holiday you celebrate, if any.
As always, just typing this to keep the demons in the world and out of my mind.

An Update That Requires One to Think *Inside* the Box.

So..a few more laurels to add for DEAD THERAPY.

Proof that I was there for Indie Incubator.
What an ugly son of a bitch..

Greetings! Time for some more self indulgent self promotion that only seems to get me into trouble. Right?

So, since my last post back in August a few interesting things happened.

DEAD THERAPY played at the Rock and Shock Film Festival  in October.   Hell yes!                       I was unable to attend this insane event, but was so psyched to be a part of a film festival that included DEAD SNOW 2, among other cool films.

DEAD THERAPY also screened at the Indie Incubator Film Festival in Chicago during the month of November. Got to attend that. Was the second (or third) film to play that night. Lots of fun. Very cool festival and I highly recommend it.

Going to try to send it out to some smaller festivals this year. Let's see what happens.

Flooding the competitions this year with my previous winner.

Cleaned up some short screenplays for some competitions this year. Sending out SEAWORTHY to some comps.  No new feature for 2015, but sending off my winner and festival finalist WITH CHILD to several more this year, after an extensive re-write I did the past few months.











My short film LIFE OF FLORENCE RAE never really amounted to anything other than an online experience over at YouTube and Vimeo. Still proud of the way it turned out. Lots of people would disagree, but hey...so what.





Thanks for reading. Sorry for the self indulgent promotions. Please leave a hate message at the door and I'll do another one!

:-D

JTK

The Life of Florence Rae

So here's my attempt at another short film.
I'm not sure if anyone is reading this, but I'll drop the link.
Thanks to whomever may be watching.

https://vimeo.com/104987526


I've made a radical change in my workflow. I've become tired of writing feature scripts in a market where it seems everyone is doing this. Competitions are nice, but they are kinda just pats on the back and ego boosters. I've rarely seen a win get any place beyond that. Shifting my focus to writing short scripts that  can make into short films.

I realize my films are no budget and not full of technical marvel, but its better than wasting the 100's of dollars on these dead end competitions.