I love collaborating. Once upon a time I was a die hard athlete and I purposely chose to play team sports. I thrived on the competition more when I had teammates to share in the intense highs of [...]
Our San Antonio principal photography is COMPLETED! It has been an extraordinary fifteen days. We still have a little bit of principal photography to do in Los Angeles and some intense upcoming [...]
Miles Underwater begins and ends in the same place. The writers wrote it. The producers encouraged it. The director actualized it. Miles Underwater takes place in one day. The messages and [...]
In Quality Problems (now avail on VOD, Amazon, iTunes, etc… do you have YOUR copy yet?) Max Purdy KILLED IT in the scene where he discovers his mother has cancer. On set, the then [...]
Today, we spent the day on bridges. There are bridges in Miles Underwater. Why wouldn’t there be… it is a film with the word underwater in the title. And we are shooting in San [...]
While our producers worked their Tuchuses off scouting locations & prepping for the second 1/2 of our shoot, our cast went to Schlitterban – Texas’s biggest waterpark. We have two [...]
It does not matter if you are shooting Black Panther or Miles Underwater: In filmmaking, there are three stages of production: Pre-production: Planning, scripting & storyboarding, etc. [...]
Today’s four pillars. There were too many moments of general happiness today on set to narrow down in tonight’s blog: To have a singular voice. To share something profound or [...]
I cried twice today on set. Both times watching real life father and son Doug and Max Purdy masterfully portray a complicated relationship with dignity, poise, emotional depth and clarity. All [...]
The concept of “day off” when you’re shooting an indie film is a misnomer. While it means not physically going to set or turning on a camera, it does not mean we’re [...]
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