October, 2023.It’d be a few more weeks before the actor’s strike would come to a close, turning for me and fellow producers/DPs/editors a normally busy Fall into a whole lot of spare time. Even with the possibility of a deal looming there were whispers… work wasn’t coming back soon. So, in the middle of a party for the in-CRED-ible Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, I turned to my friend Courtney, herself a shooter/producer/editor, and asked the question:“Do you want to make a bunch of horror short films to release in a year?"Shockingly… her answer was ‘yes.’THE FISH HAS LEFT THE WATERWe approached a number of other past collaborators, and the enthusiasm was immediate. Most of these folks had been in the 'real people' space for awhile and were eager to try those skills against something new. "I'm a big believer in ambition as an ingredient in good filmmaking" said DP Dan Lance. "I was sold right away, no questions asked." DP Dan Lance enjoys a shot that, apparently, horrifies ‘Pry’ lead Kaleb SaleebyJeremy Berger First, however, we needed scripts. So we sat through and shared every spooky thing we could find, film or no. Courtney was a big fan of Deep Dark Fears on Instagram, Dan loved everything Junji Ito, and I dove headfirst into everything from Stephen King to Tales From The Darkside. At the time, I was the one with the most writing experience, so write I did. So, every day for 30 days, I sat down and wrote...
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