....and, we're back!
I haven't blogged in over a year, because I've been consumed with two things - being a new dad (fatherhood is awesome, btw) and creating our new original series, Exorcists Local 667, which will be going live very soon (5 of 6 episodes are completed, just putting the finishing touches on the last one). It's a supernatural comedy, full of monsters and special effects, and has been a very wacky, fun ride. Exorcists follows the misadventures of a Libertarian exorcist who is cursed to lead a new union of exorcists, witches and other foes of supernatural evil.
It has already been featured in a few festivals, including the ITVFest in Los Angeles and SharpCuts in Ontario, Canada! We're shopping it to a few online channels and hope to announce our launch date very soon. And we've already got season two in the works, as well as a couple more shows up our sleeves.
After all of the tributes to Steve Jobs this week, and seeing again his fantastic Stanford commencement speech from 2005, I am more determined than ever to live my life my way, which means making movies - whenever and however possible.
But I do resolve to check in more often this time. ;)
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Thanks, Steve.
I'm a filmmaker thanks to Steve Jobs.
I was an actor for years, but had always dreamed of making my own films. But I didn't have the money for film school, equipment rentals or even film stock.
As a young adult in early 2000, I was doing sketch comedy in NYC. We wanted to bring our show up a notch, and wished we could treat it like a live tv show, by bridging our "blackouts" with fake commercials, short films, movie parodies, et cetera. Then a friend told me about iMovie. I immediately scraped together the money for an iMac DV and an inexpensive camcorder and dove into filmmaking with a passion.
Long story short - the films in our sketch shows were a big hit, and it wasn't long before I traded up to Final Cut Pro (and a better camera). Now many years, many Macs and many movies later, I continue to follow my dreams - with the real world ability to bring my stories to life.
Thank you, Steve. You truly changed my life.
Todd Faulkner
I was an actor for years, but had always dreamed of making my own films. But I didn't have the money for film school, equipment rentals or even film stock.
As a young adult in early 2000, I was doing sketch comedy in NYC. We wanted to bring our show up a notch, and wished we could treat it like a live tv show, by bridging our "blackouts" with fake commercials, short films, movie parodies, et cetera. Then a friend told me about iMovie. I immediately scraped together the money for an iMac DV and an inexpensive camcorder and dove into filmmaking with a passion.
Long story short - the films in our sketch shows were a big hit, and it wasn't long before I traded up to Final Cut Pro (and a better camera). Now many years, many Macs and many movies later, I continue to follow my dreams - with the real world ability to bring my stories to life.
Thank you, Steve. You truly changed my life.
Todd Faulkner
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