A boy realizes that his fear is manifested by his own imagination.


"I simply wanted to take what scared me and take it out of me so I would no longer be frightened and be able to look at it. And then because I'm a bit of a monster, I wanted everyone else to be afraid of what I used to be afraid of."

These words from Steven Spielberg inspired me to dig through my childhood. Like Spielberg I feared many things as a child, but what truly had an impact on me? I can remember accidentally subjecting myself to the crawl space scene in the Sixth Sense as my father watched it on the couch. I was instantly horrified for I had a crawl space no more than six feet from the foot of my bed. And so a childhood horror was born.
The film The Crawl Space explores this fear, but allows the child to face his imagination. What if as a child you could of realized that your fears were simply your imagination and nothing more? What if you were able to face that beastly fear and slay it? The imaginary villain in the film is the fear of the crawl space personified. The boy runs from it and then finally realizes his power over that fear. He turns off the night light that he depended on so much before.

Production Notes:
The film was shot in about 5 shooting days spread out over a couple of weeks. This was my newly created dolly's debut film(as seen in photos). I originally intended this to be shot with a 35mm adapter, but had to settle for the raw HV30 due to time and money constraints. I used a lowel tota halogen 750watt light kit. Final Cut Pro was used to edit, as well as Soundtrack Pro, Motion(for the title), and Compressor. John Williams' piece from Close Encounters was used a sort of homage to Spielberg. I mixed the music and sound effects up until the Sigur Ros song.



Written by: Kevin Sweeney
Director: Kevin Sweeney

Starring:
Boy: Ethan Chasson
Mother: Beverly Burton
Imaginary Ogar: Connor Sinn

Camera Grip: Kevin Sweeney & Mike Black
Lighting Grip: Josh Chasson
Editor: Kevin Sweeney
Sound Editor: Kevin Sweeney
Tech & Equip Assistant: Mike Black

Music
Title Sequence: John Williams- Roy's First Encounter from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Imagination Sequence: Sigur Ros- Glosoli

A father blames his son's best friend for his son's death. He hires someone to kill, but who's the one to blame?

Nikon D90, a skate, 3 Kino Flo's with dimmers, and Nikon AI-S Series Lenses: 28/2.8, 50/1.4, 85/1.8, 135/2.8, and a 200/4.

Music by Alex Khaskin / Kerry Muzzey / Robert Antony Guerrier / Cameron Lasswell / Dominik Hauser / Vicki Hansen / SMM Productions.

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This is the trailer for Re-Wire, a new 14-minute psych-fi film and the directorial debut of Toronto filmmaker, David-James Fernandes.

The film follows Harley, a late 30's man suffering from severe, debilitating anxiety. On a tip from his psychiatrist, Harley seeks out the help of Dr. Adrian Vanuz, a renown but disgraced neuroscientist whose experimental equipment has allegedly been used to cure epilepsy, Alzheimer's and possibly even mental health issues. Harley is determined to get better, whether or not the doctor is ready to see him. And at any risk....

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The film was shot digitally in 4K resolution (4X HD) on the RED camera in Toronto last August by Director of Photography, Gregory Bennett.

The film has been submitted to ten film festivals so far and the filmmakers are waiting for responses.

Please see the website for more information about the cast and crew:

rewirefilm.com/

Please also see our IMDB page for more information:

imdb.com/title/tt1518256/

just another day in the life

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João e o Cão (John and the Dog) is my first fiction short film.

It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2008, and subsequently won the "Cacho Pallero Award" and a "Special Mention" for Chandra Malatitch at the Huesca International Film Festival (in Spain) and "Best New Director Award" at the Entre Todos Human Rights Short Film Festival (in Brazil), among others.

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