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I just saw Naughty (2019) as a virtual screening during the Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival.  If you get a chance the weekend of May 21 to 23, 2021, see it as part of the WTF Shorts program.  This film is delightfully disturbing in all the right ways.

A young girl walks in on a small time burglar dressed as Santa Claus to find him stealing presents.  He plays it off as taking back defective presents to replace them, but things turn dark when she expresses concern that she might be on the naughty list.

If you miss it this weekend, look for it at future film festivals.

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Maybe it's "beginner's luck" or maybe I hit on something good, but the screenplay I wrote for a short film, Zombiemaker has been selected as a Top 10 Finalist by the Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival in N. Charleston, SC.  This is the first screenplay I have submitted and the first festival to announce its selections.  I am truly honored.

Zombiemaker is a throwback to the 1930's and 1940's classic zombie films, but with modern fears.  Let's face it, more people are scared of Islam than Voodoo these days.  (Just to be clear, I'm not scared of either religion.)  Zombiemaker replaces Voodoo as a source of fear with the fear many parents have of their teens engaging in dangerous activities and getting in trouble and the fear of jumping from the frying pan into the fire.  There are, of course, other fears that were part of the classic genre, such as the fear of death, fear of losing one's mind, and fear of being enslaved.  The film's tag line: This is your great grandfather's zombie film — minus the racism.

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I just backed Isolation on Kickstarter.  It is a narrative short by Isabelle Pope about a woman, who along with her entire town, is kept in isolation for a year after a catastrophic event.  When the town is released, she notices that people seem to not be themselves.

As we approach the one year mark of New York State residents being under damn near house arrest from the COVID-19 global pandemic, I have to wonder how anybody could possibly be their same selves their friends and family remember.  I haven't had a vacation in over 16 months.  It will be a full 17 months by the time the Kickstarter campaign is done.  But, seriously, I had a hotel room booked for months for a couple nights, scheduled for just after the real world lock down began.  Since then, I've only left the house for an hour a week to do my grocery shopping and the most recent estimate I've read (Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, Feb 5, 2021) is another 11 months for the US to reach, "herd immunity."  I already know I'm not the same person I was before.

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Here is a list of films I have backed on Kickstarter.  Some are currently available, while others are not even listed on IMDb, yet:

  • Pizza, A Love Story — A feature length documentary about three pizzerias in New Haven, CT that are routinely in the list of the Top 100 pizzerias in the United States, beating out many famous pizzerias in NYC.
  • #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump — A feature length documentary about malignant narcissism, the Duty to Warn movement, and why Donald Trump is not fit to hold the office of US President.  Available on Apple TV, Fandango Now, and Vudu.
  • Breathe — A narrative short about a woman in an abusive marriage and her ultimate decision of whether to leave.
  • Fairchild — A narrative short about a teenage girl trying to reconcile after being sexually assaulted at a summer camp (watch).
  • Automat — A narrative short about a fulfillment center where management, concerned about being replaced by robots, drives employees to try to be more efficient than robots (watch).
  • Body of the Mined — A narrative short sci-fi/thriller about the question of what you would give up to be who you've never been able to be.
  • Jesse — A narrative short about a road trip with a transgender teen and her disapproving father.
  • Liquor Store Dreams — A feature length documentary about the American born children of Korean business owners in Los Angeles.  A follow up to the short documentary Liquor Store Babies (watch).
  • Factory - 150,000 square feet of Sex, Vice, Music, Art & Clocks — A feature length documentary about the old New Haven Clock Company building and the numerous times it has been repurposed since the factory closed.
  • Daughter of the White River — A documentary short (possibly feature length) about White River folk hero Helen Spence.
  • Space Command: Forgiveness Part Two — The fourth episode in the Space Command sci-fi series (Star Trek inspired).
  • The Myst Documentary — A feature length documentary about the development and success of the 1990's video game with no violence, no score, and no time limit.
  • Renegades: Ominara — A narrative short prequel to the Renegades series (Star Trek inspired).
  • Cult of VHS — A feature length documentary about the VHS phenomenon of the 1980's.
  • Isolation — A narrative short about a woman kept in isolation for a year after a catastrophic event.
  • Best Video — Documentary about one of the last, and biggest, physical media video rental stores.

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