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A look at the making of the debut album of Turkish singer/songwriter Sinem Saniye.
Sinem Saniye works with French Producer Henri Scars Struck crafting her debut, “When I Don’t Sleep.” She takes various world music influences to create her own Turkish American pop style.
Principal Crew
Editor – Deb Szczepkowski
Principal Characters
Artist – Sinem Saniye
French Producer – Henri Scars Struck
Mixing Engineer – Mark Plati
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“We stand feet apart, but we’re miles away”
World of Forms was shot in two days in a small room against one wall. Several crew members lost their minds during the shoot.
Principal Crew
Produced by Aligned Creative
Director: Ben Donnellon
Cinematographer: Cai Hall
Principal Actors
The Middle Eight
Kimberlee Walker
Kathrine Chant
Joe Kavitski
TRT: 3:53
The FilmShop welcomes a wide diversity of talents, skill levels, styles and aesthetics to join our collective. Our workshop environments provide a safe space for our members to learn from a wide range of peer critiques, and our events, screenings and program series benefit from an eclectic base of talented work. Through our partnerships with local arts organizations, we are constantly incorporating new influences to enrich our work, and our growing international chapters allow us to share artistic perspectives from around the world.
We are firmly committed to the belief that each member will learn more, and each member’s work will be pushed to its best potential by the unique set of benefits and challenges that collective development can provide.
The FilmShop also strives to change the way independent media producers approach distribution and create opportunities to see their work become financially sustainable. We connect our members to our partnerships with several film festivals, as well as fiscal sponsors and distributors, in order to get content monetized and available to wider audiences. We also provide the tools for our members to independently sell their films through DVDs or Digital Downloads, without any upfront costs and some of the best royalties in the industry. Our hope is to broaden opportunities for independent filmmakers, and in doing so contribute to a growing movement toward viability and proliferation of independent film.
For now, we’ll have this go to Partnerships, but we can have a “Collaboration” page under About eventually.
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A hotwire suspense parody.
General Ripper of the U.S. Terror Force irrationally releases a deadly rabbit/nuclear bomb hybrid to stay a step ahead of the terrorists.
Here Group Captain Pancake discovers Ripper’s insanity, and attempts to stop him before it’s too late.
Principal Crew
Produced by Aligned Creative
Director: Ben Donnellon
Cinematographer: Ben Donnellon
Principal Actors
General Ripper: Joe Kavitski
Group Captain Pancake: Ben Donnellon
TRT: 3:54
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A demented ice cream man’s delusional love for a lactose intolerant woman obsessed with ice cream.
“Remember when I went to prick your eye with a hair pin and you started crying and I said to shut your socket or those tasty tears will soon crimson into droplets of blood as I scoop those baby blues out of your skull? Remember that?
“I must have gotten a dust particle in my eye today. The robots that scanned my pupils did not see innocence, only the burgundy coating of a dust particle hellbent on dilation. I blinked fervently and when one robot inquired as to if I was making a pass at it’s lubricated tube, I winked and said, “Not unless you scan it to be,” at which point the robot took it’s handclamp and systematically pried my eye open under the bright florescent light before scanning it with laser beams as red as the scarlet liquid which had tendency to congeal around your rosy cheeks under the smooth, pale skin. The robot said, “No, Human. Indeed I do not scan it so,” then dropped the clanking gruel cup of mushed memories forever frozen at my feet…and rolled away.
“I want you to know I would have never popped your sight balloons. I would not have been able to handle the air that escaped those peepers, but I would have inhaled, breathed it in. I will not deny that.
“I was quite satisfied with the way you looked for the most part, and I would not wish to gaze upon a melted vanilla scoop with strawberry syrup drizzling down your creamy complexion. Back then, Beauty was ice cream.
“But Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, and today, Beauty is a dust particle. Lashes to ashes…lust to dust…”
Principal Crew
Principal Actors
- Christina Smith- The Lactose Intolerant
- Joe Kavitski- The Ice Creame Man
TRT: 4 min 20 sec
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Saaremaa Valss is an experimental short film about a man that reminisces about the past in a tanning salon.
Principal Crew
- Editor/Co-Director: Adam R. Brown
- Shooter/Co-Director: Alina Smirnova
- Shooter/Co-Director: Jason Dickerson
- Shooter/Co-Director: Spencer Gillis
- Sound Design/Co-Director: Dave Rife
- Original Music: Harlan Muir
Principal Actors
- Henry R. Brown Jr.
- Eva Brown
- Alina Smirnova
TRT: 3min 29sec
FilmShop has partnered with Cinema-Philia, a winter film screening series in Bushwick, to produce original shorts and curate the films. The series is run by Kweighbaye Kotee, co-founder of the Bushwick Film Festival. The screening series is every Tuesday night throughout the winter at Nut Roaster Studios. There’s free pizza & popcorn, cheap drinks, and good flicks. The night begins with a selection of local short films and concludes with an obscure classic film. Fellow Filmshopper Adam Waltner curates the feature films.
We are producing one original short for the series every month. Filmshop members brainstorm with the screening audience conducting a call and response “Who’s Line Is It Anyway” method of determining the location, genre, and characters for the short.
We produced our first film this month, Chloe’s Postman, and screened it at the series on Tuesday. From the brainstorming session, we came up with a film noir piece that involves a conversation in an elevator between a mailman and a prostitute. The film was written and directed by Ck Swett, co-directed by Lara Sfire and Ben Donnellon, shot by Lara Sfire, and edited by Chris King. Be sure to check it out on the films section of our website.
The film played well, and the audience was eager to brainstorm for the next piece. After suggestions went back and forth, we concluded that our next film would be a musical in a church. The characters are Satan & an environmentalist, and the tag line is recycle, reduce, & repent. Filmshopper Sean Yeaton is slated to write this next film, and we’ll be screening at the film series in late February.
