Project Greenman Commercial

yesterday we shot a commercial for "project greenman" a cause founded by jeff arsenault which is represented by four young "agents for change" that deliver seeds all over the world. in their words:

Project Greenman will allow you to follow a tiny seed through its life cycle. Planting seeds and growing plants represent the continuation of life; a rebirth of our world and promise for tomorrow. We want you to be part of this future. When you become an "Agent for Change" you will have the chance to assist other members fulfilling a commitment to rejuvenate our Earth.

our agents were janette bundic, eric clark, megan mckinnon & connor stanhope, who some of you may recognize as the young lex luther on 'smallville.' the spot also features fortyfps's parents, maggie and chuck, who are celebrating their 33rd wedding anniversary today. the finished spot should be appearing online within the next week.

click here and here to see a photos from shortly after the production had wrapped and project page has been created and uploaded here.

jeff has told us of several major places and people that will be involved in promoting this piece and the cause, including virgin's richard branson who is planning to promote the cause by taking seeds up on the first commercial space flight. here is a clip from ctv news:

Bloodsprayer.com: Dead Hooker Review

Zach from the bloodsprayer.com posted his review entitled: "look mom, there's a dead hooker in a trunk"

The Soska Sisters are poised to throat punch Hollywood and shove their debut feature in its blood gurgling face. Their first full length film from Twisted Twin Productions delivers an adventure like Stephen King’s STAND BY ME in reverse, all grown up and tweaked out on meth. Four misfits labeled Junkie, Bad Ass, Geek, and Goody Two Shoes are forced on a drug fueled road trip to escape consequence and stay alive. After picking up Geek’s Bible thumping buddy from Youth Group they’re on their way to score some drugs when they sniff a stench from the trunk of their slick ass Pontiac. Each character lives up to the labels of their stereotypes as they discover the title of the film, DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK.

The Belle Game - Shoulders & Turns

we welcome you to check out the music video for 'shoulders & turns' by the belle game. the video was directed and animated by jeffrey zablotny and the song is featured in our documentary 'please subscribe.' additionally, a secret musical project has been in the works with us and adam nanji of the belle game and will surface soon.

as for our own music video news, we will be directing a video for david choi in los angeles in mid-july and a second video for malcolm and his moonlights who had this to say on our facebook page.

there is also some extrememly large cast-related news regarding our debut feature film frank flood and will be shared as soon as it is contractually bound to us...

The Rose: Six New Preview Stills

while we await the debut broadcast date from bravofact for our sarah slean video, six new preview/low resolution framegrabs have made their way up onto our flickr page. come have a look?

Dead Hooker In A Trunk Wins 3 Awards At Pollygrind

the pollygrind film festival had the las vegas premiere of "dead hooker in a trunk" last friday which, the festival reports, was the most successful night of the five days - completely selling out with standing room only.

the awards were announced earlier today and the film was awarded "best feature - audience choice", "best screenplay," and everette hartsoe's "bad girl award" was co-awarded to jen & sylvia soska. everette is the creator of razor, a comic series noted worldwide for pioneering the "bad girl comic genre."

click here to read the full press release and rundown from the festival.

Elective appears on WCNY Connected!

sort of. kayleigh goldsworthy appeared with her primary band "the scarlet ending" and performed two songs acoustically on wcny connected. the clip has found its way onto youtube and is embedded below.



additional context: kayleigh (blond) is the american half of our musical side project "elective" and her twin sister kaleena (brunette) provided an original song to the feature film documentary"please subscribe." a co-venture feature length project we created with jen & sylvia soska of twisted twins productions.

additional co-venture news: the soska sister's film "dead hooker in a trunk" recently played to rave reviews from a sold-out crowd at this year's pollygrind film festival. awards will be announced monday morning!

Timeless Films Blog Reviews Circumference

This November 2009 review on Circumference was brought to our attention recently and it was very kind so we thought we would repost it here to save for a cloudy day:

"Allow me this time to deviate from my original form of exclusively discussing graphic design and I will be venturing into the art of cinema. Now as one who prides himself on his knowledge of film and everything surrounding it, I was surprised to find that I had not heard anything about the filmmaker C.J. Wallis until recently. So my guess is that there is a very high probability any who are reading this will not be familiar with his work either. But let me share with you one of his most original works. It is called Circumference, created in 2006 and shot entirely in HD.

It was created on a competition basis being chosen out of over 80 pitches in the Crazy8's competition. It challenges filmmakers to make a short film entirely within 8 days on a strict budget of $800 and only allowing you 30 minutes of raw footage to be shot. While all that is a separate task in itself, the astonishing thing about this film is that it is seems as one 10 minute long tracking shot that takes you through the story.

Now it is not exactly one entire tracking shot as they did need to take multiple shots and cuts, however they use extremely hard to replicate editing techniques to blend it all together and make it seem like one fluid tracking shot. So you might see the main character walking in and closing a door which appears to be a film set, but when someone else walks outside it is now the outside of someone's house, and when someone walks back into that door again it is the inside of an office building.

Frankly, I am still trying to figure out how he did it. You certainly can't just pick up a camera and wing it with that huge of an idea. Most people wouldn't be able to do what he did period, but the fact that he was able to accomplish that cinematic feat all under those competitive restraints shows how much careful planning and design went into every little detail before they could start shooting.

Furthermore, he is one who's style I will be looking out for, because his display of talent is very promising in my eyes. So if you can spare about 10 minutes to be amazed, I would seriously recommend you checking out the film, and I will even provide the link for you... http://vimeo.com/5148021

Hope you enjoy!

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Argentinian Article on "Please Subscribe"

click here to view the article. editor's note: we were given zero indication from webhostingpad that our domain was up for renewal and now several of our websites are filled with a smiling young woman having an awesome day while we are not. this will be fixed instantly.

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