CRIME RUNS DEEP IN THE DIRTY SOUTH

(Red Epic, Zeiss CP2    2 min 52 sec

An underage prostitute, Roan, like the horses, works the streets and hotels of the South with her pimp Pooky. Until Saul, a desolate cab driver shoots him and takes her on a wild ride on the lam from the cops, the mobs, and their own twisted painful pasts.

(Canon 5D, Zeiss CP2 .    3 min 14 sec)

This was the too hot for a commercial rough cut we did to support the Boycott Sri Lanka  effort (They are among the worst sweatshops in the world), but now with shows like Shameless out there this doesn't seem as racy. After I shot this one, I ditched the 5D because the blacks are too harsh and the colors are wishy washy. I was able to play with it in resolve to get a passable look but the shadows still bloom and even with good cc you can't get rid of some of those artifacts.

(Red Epic, Cooke S4i    7 min 22 sec)

A convict returning to society decides to make a stop to see how his estranged daughter is doing. Afraid to interact, he chances a visit from afar. The boyfriend bums a light and accidentally rekindles deep family connections lost to years of emotional confusion and uncertainty....

(Sony F35, Zeiss Digiprimes      19 min 58 sec) 

A self-inflicted toxic dose of GHB "The Date Rape Pill" kills a young exotic dancer as she battles her moralities and her past memories of sexual abuse. The cops investigate her death and discover ripples from her past the suggest reasons why she died.

(Sony FS700, Zeiss CP2 .     6 min 18 sec

A film noir gangster story set in 1949 New Orleans.  The Micks robs the Spades, but the Wops make out with the loot and the reefers. Paddy Johnson has had enough, andhe  saves his girl and nabs his piece of the rackets pie, but not before Mobley and his cohorts from Darktown get the war on!

(FS700, Zeiss CP2 .    12 min 37 sec)

When Amber Martin, New Orleans social worker, gets assigned a new case, her past horrors seize control of her present in a heavy dramatic unraveling of her life .This is the story of my niece after she became a social worker and had to confront her mother at her job. It was probably a conflict of interest for her, but sometimes, you just have to do what you need to, regardless of the damage.

(FS700, Zeiss CP2 .    6 min 33 sec)

A young buck and his girlfriend try to kill her step-dad. Only they couldn't get him, so now each is hunting the other to the death, stuck in a thick Louisiana swamp during a hot summer night.

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