Back in October 2021, right in middle of the premiere events for Parkway of Broken Dreams, I joined a crew of local filmmakers to help make a short film called Miracle Baby, which is now finally available to watch online.
A campaign to launch ‘Murdered on the Fourth of July’ into production
Two days have gone by since I launched the first crowdfunding campaign for Murdered on the Fourth of July and I have not posted a single thing about it here–until now.
Beyond remembering Spit and Dan
When Lin (better known to friends and enemies alike as “Spit”) Newborn and Daniel Shersty were murdered by neo-Nazi skinheads in the early hours of July 4, 1998, it shook our little community of artists and activists in Las Vegas.
Top Lessons I Learned Making My First Documentary Film
Why am I just now posting the finished video containing these filmmaking lessons in January 2023? Beats the heck out of me.
Parkway of Broken Dreams is now available everywhere, all at once
In case you’re stumbling upon this website without somehow having already seen this on social media, an email newsletter or your local PBS station, my new documentary film Parkway of Broken Dreams is now available for download, streaming and DVD purchase.
Bringing Parkway to the Parkway
Parkway of Broken Dreams is having its world premiere in Las Vegas on October 13 at 8 p.m. inside the Galaxy Theatres Boulevard Mall, located right at the corner of Maryland Parkway and Twain Avenue, because of course it is.
My Fantastic Four Film Pitch
Sometimes, I come up with an idea, and I just won’t let it go. Sometimes, I slowly massage it over more than a decade, and it ends up becoming a feature-length documentary. In the case of my latest foray into the YouTubeVerse, it became a 25-minute-long visual treatment for a movie featuring intellectual property for […]
The Evolution of My Low-Budget Filmmaking Kit
I’ve been creating videos and films for many years now–if you dig back far enough, ever since I picked up my family’s Super 8 camcorder back in the early 1980s–but it’s really only in the last four years or so that I’ve amassed anything close to a proper “kit” of production gear.
2020
Well, that was certainly a year, huh? Arbitrary calendar designation or not, 2020 felt like a lot. It was the year that all of the cracks in our collective social structure not only revealed themselves, but seemed to grow ever wider. I’m not going to rehash or review them all here; you’re well aware of […]
Pj Teaches the Art of Procrastination
As I detailed in a recent video blog, at any given time, I’m sitting on a few dozen ideas for various creative projects–films, songs, videos, articles, whatever. They can range from a few words tapped out quickly in an email or brainstormed notes in my phone to fully developed pitches and halfway finished screenplays. Sometimes […]