Stage & screen

“I grew up reading Stephen King's books. It became an obsession. The way I would get sucked into his worlds, transporting me away from my mundane life really did a number on my imagination. It's no secret that he didn't like the movie version of 'The Shining' so it seemed like the best option when I decided to start playing around with creating myself. We filmed this as part of a hard beg to allow us to gain access to copyright adaptation rights. His assistant wrote me back saying the studio would never go for it (which they didn't) but that Mr. King watched my work and really liked it. And that was enough for me.”

“The film was submitted about 3 minutes before time ran out and then wouldn't upload properly, forcing me to hunt down the Festival coordinator and beg her to let me send it to her personal dropbox. She obliged and thank god because we won for Best Score (which was written and recorded in 2 hours) and 2nd Place Best SFX and Best use of Prop! I love a good 48 FF.”

“'i think i'm good' will always be near and dear to my heart. None of us had made a feature film before so it was a massive undertaking, especially while my oldest was not yet out of diapers. I almost passed out from heat exhaustion filming the beach scene and again when we had to take my (not waterproofed) camera into the swimming pool to get certain shots in a later scene. I don't think the teenager who did camera op for us was prepared to hold me up by my shorts so I could stop treading water long enough to get a steady shot, nor did I expect her to navigate filming while I covered her eyes during dirty scenes.”

“PIECE OF CATE! PIECE OF CATE! PIECE OF CATE! I can not fucking WAIT for this to go into production.”

“Ch-ch-ch Ah-ah-ah. Our marshmallows got burned when this show went up - the same day our landlord told us The Rabbit Hole Blackbox Theatre would become a roaming Theatre Group instead. Everything for a reason.”

“One of my favorite BTS clips is in the short.”

“This was a trip and a half. We were only in house 3 days before this show went up (previously rehearsing in a church chapel) but we pulled off grayscale makeup and live on stage pit music really well.”