A couple days ago I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Matthew Welsh, who writes a blog about spiritual entertainment called ‘Spiritual Media Blog.’  Here is that interview in its entirety.  You can also read it on his blog at Spiritual Media Blog.  You should check it out and read his other material there. [...]

‘Dreams Awake’ walked away with 2 Gold Remi Awards at WorldFest-Houston 2012 International Film Festival last Saturday; one Gold Remi for Dramatic Original and one for Screenplay. The annual event which ran from April 13 through April 22, screened 60 Feature films and 100 Short Films resulting in only about 5% of the 3,500 entries [...]

Things have been quite busy around here lately, so I thought I pass along a number of tidbits: Late last month we shot a teaser trailer for our next film project, “One Hand Clapping.”  We (I?) originally had the crazy idea to shoot it near the end of the SXSW film festival.  Not smart.  Most [...]

“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” – Mark Twain In relation to the end of the previous Part 2 of this essay, the Catholic Church of course now denies that anything about reincarnation ever took place during these historic periods, and that reincarnation has never held any standing with the church.   I leave that [...]

Life.  Death.  Rebirth.  Reincarnation?  Anything to that question? Maybe, but the fear of death and its ongoing anxiety has always a very universal fact, even though 90% of us believe in an afterlife (according to recent polls).  Thus making it a subject for ongoing inquiry and discussion, as it seems the real fear is the [...]

Recently I have been putting together a script for a teaser trailer we are planning to shoot for our next film, “One Hand Clapping.”  To encapsulate a 115 page script into a 7-8 page trailer has not been easy.  But then I don’t want to give away too much anyway, unlike what a lot of [...]

$$$?  Doesn’t it always seem like we always need more of it, no matter what else is going on in our lives?  Well, as we embark on our newest expedition, it seems that very thing is going to be our most challenging obstacle.  When we funded “Dreams Awake” it was mostly friends and family, and [...]

We are getting all geared up around here to get our latest project, “One Hand Clapping” off the ground.  And we realize the mountain we have to climb is much higher than the one we climbed when we shot “Dreams Awake” on Mt. Shasta several years ago.  We are a few years older, and wiser, [...]

Piracy.  Right off the very term evokes all kinds of images and feelings.  On the one hand you’ve got romantic figures like Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Long John Silver, Captain Hook, and yes even Jack Sparrow, swashbuckling their way across the seas on all types of great adventures.  On the other hand you have thieves, scoundrels, [...]

Several people over the last couple years have asked me why I did a film like “Dreams Awake.”  Usually my initial thought (or question) is, why not?  I actually replied that to people a few times before I realized that answer doesn’t go over too well, as if I am questioning a person’s question right [...]