DreamStalker Films

The screening of the film for the festival will be on Friday, May 28th, at 1:40pm.  Be sure to come check it out.

We’ll also be screening another version of the film all weekend long at the DreamStalker Films table (T120) where we will also be selling DVDs and T-Shirts.

More updates to come on the Comicon as well as a blog about Slayer Wars 3 Day 12 and 13, so stay tuned…

Here it is a sneak peak at the first DreamStalker Films DVD that will be for sale at this year’s Phoenix Comicon.  The Short Film Collection includes “Dreamscape Excursion,” “Game of Stamina,” “Down and Out,” “PSA: Don’t Drive and Text,” and “The Family That Decays Together…“  Each film also has a gag reel or making of featurette and a behind the scenes slide show.  Additionally, there is an early look at all of the upcoming DreamStalker Films shorts and a short film from Black Shard Studios.  The DVDs will be sold exclusively (initially) at the Phoenix Comicon May 28-30 for the low price of five dollars each.  We will have a limited supply available, so be sure to come by early and pick one up.

More to come soon on what else we’ll be selling at the Comicon, so be sure to check back here often for updates.

Welcome back returning DSF fans, and a hearty hello to any new visitors to dreamstalkerfilms.com!  If you are new to the site, please be sure to check out the FILMS link above and take a look at some of our completed short films before you leave (and come back often).  For our regular visitors we have something new to watch… A brand new short film!  “The Family That Decays Together…” was shot and completed over President’s Day/Valentine’s Day weekend for A3F’s Annual 48 Hour Film Competition.  Unfortunately, our film fell in the bottom and didn’t even get an honorable online mention.  However, I still think this is one of the better short films we have put together so far, and certainly the best we have done in 48 hours.

Click here to view the film or for more details on the production of the film.

For more behind the scenes pictures, check out the Facebook album for this film here.

Upcoming Events:

More filming for the final chapter of the Slayer Wars Trilogy picks up this weekend with Day 11.  This should be our first glimpse of zombies for the film.  Still plenty more to do on this project (as I have seen in my immense shot list for the rest of the film) so watch for more updates coming throughout the year.

I am focusing strongly on the Phoenix Comicon coming up at the end of May.  In the next few days I should have a special feature for the DreamStalker Films Short Film Collection Volume 1 DVD completed.  This will be a short preview of the films to come from DSF.  The DVD will be available for a small fee at the Comicon.  For certain it will include “Dreamscape Excursion,” “Game of Stamina,” “Down and Out,” “PSA: Don’t Drive and Text,” and “The Family That Decays Together…”  In addition to the preview special feature I’d like to get a gag reel assembled for it, and possibly some short films from some friends who’d also like to help get their names out there, but no promises.

The original Slayer Wars will be available for free on DVD at the Comicon on either a first come/first serve basis or we’ll be raffling them off as we will have a limited supply.

More to come on the Comicon as it develops.  Hopefully we’ll have more swag to give away as well as shirts and decals to sell.

It’s gearing up to be a pretty hectic few months coming up, so come back often to read more updates on the happenings of DreamStalker Films.

After a very short post-production, the Public Service Announcement on not texting while driving is finally complete.  I’d like to thank Nick and Scott for there fast work on the soundtrack over the holidays.  Thanks to everyone else (especially Shannon) for their patience with me while I absorbed myself into finishing this project.

Now that the films are online we need all of our fans to be sure to watch all of the versions (and as many times as possible) and pass the link onto your friends.  The more hits we can get the more that will help us in getting the 30 second spots to be broadcast on local television.  So please help us out with that.  We encourage you to also leave comments on the film here on the main page and/or on the YouTube pages (where the films are actually hosted).

Here is the direct link for the PSA page on this site so you can email it on:

http://www.dreamstalkerfilms.com/films/psa-dont-drive-text/

Click here to go to the PSA page and view the films now.

Remember DreamStalker Films is also on Facebook and MySpace.  Click here to see the Facebook page. Be sure to become a fan on that page.  Click here to see the MySpace page. Be sure to send a friend request.

The 30 Second Spots will also be available directly on the Facebook and Myspace pages.

Don’t forget to bookmark dreamstalkerfilms.com if you have not already and come back often.  Stay tuned for our next post about 2009 in review and our upcoming plans for 2010.

Welcome DreamStalker Films fans and anyone visiting the site for the first time!

First, I’d like to update everyone on the Public Service Announcement that we have been working on with Boy Scout Troop 87 about not texting while driving.  The project is going amazingly well, especially considering the short amount of time that there has been to work on it at this point.  It has only been about a month since we first broke down the concept.  We finished the pre-production in a week and a half, shot the film in one weekend and two weeks later we have a third take at a rough cut that is pretty close to a finished cut.  You can see it here.

Second, a quick update on Slayer Wars 3.  Day 8 was completed amidst the shooting for the PSA.  This finishes up all of the “graveyard” shooting.  We should be getting back to shooting in the early part of January.

Another quick update on DreamStalker Films’ current projects before I am too bombarded to make any updates at all…

Since the last update, we have completed 2 more shooting days of Slayer Wars 3.  These two nights completes the first full scene in the film.  We got a lot of really good looking shots and tried a lot of new camera moves.

Up Next this coming Saturday evening will be the eighth shooting day in which we’ll be getting some pick-ups, reshoots, and a short new sequence for the graveyard scenes.  This will be our last shooting day for 2009 so as to not interfere with anyone’s holiday schedules.

Also this weekend we’ll be shooting a brand new project… something we have never done before, a Public Service Announcement (PSA).  This is being sponsored/produced by Nick Benzer (Ni-Que Renn in Slayer Wars) and his Boy Scout troop.  The PSA is about Driving and Texting.  We’re on a tight schedule with this project and you will all likely be able to see it up here on dreamstalkerfilms.com and on YouTube.  We are also hoping to have it air on the local public cable channels, so stay tuned.

Finally, I have been slaving over Slayer Wars 2 for the last couple of weeks.  First, I got the film cut down another ten minutes (which clocks it at about 80 minutes) and the pacing is much better.

Second, I have been working on a new full trailer for the film.  Our original teaser was made after only three shooting days of the film (and one night filming shots only for that teaser).  So this time we have all the footage from the film to cut from.

I’ll be working on this new trailer for awhile, though, as there are many shots that need visual effects.  I do hope to have it up here in the early part of 2010.

Another shooting day completed on Slayer Wars 3 finally after a several week hiatus for “Down and Out” and scheduling conflicts.  I have begun looking at the new footage and it looks like we should have most if not all of the shots we need for all of the graveyard scenes. Thanks to everyone that came out and made that happen.

I’ll be cutting the footage together and making a decision on whether we’ll need pickups at that location or not in the next few weeks.

You can check out more pictures from the newest graveyard shoot on the DreamStalker Facebook page here.

We have about five more shooting locations for Slayer Wars 3, and I expect at least 3-5 more shooting days before the end of 2009, but have not decided what we’ll be shooting next, yet.

Stay tuned for more news on DreamStalker Films.

Hey everyone just a quick update.

“Down and Out” had it’s first premiere last night at the A3F One-Shot Film Festival.  Unfortunately as we did not make the top 20 our premiere was at 6:30 pm.  Not many people got notice of this and therefore missed it.  Nonetheless we had a very good turnout and the film seemed to have a positive response.  Since the top 20 were shown at 8, there was some time for some Q&A with the directors of the Honorable Mention films (the ones that did not make top 20).

I was the first up and answered some technical questions as well as some fun ones (like how many times did Derek get slapped?

The top 20 were very enjoyable for the most part and my hat is off to all the teams that made it into that group and to Minus Mitchell Productions for their much deserved best film award.  A3F will be posting those top twenty on their site in the next few days…

But you don’t have to wait for “Down and Out” because it is live now.  Click here to go to the “Down and Out” page and take a look.

Just a real quick update… The film that we shot for the A3F 48 Hour Film Challenge last weekend,”Down and Out,” will be premiering with the 26 other films that met the 48 hour deadline.  The Festival on Wednesday October 21st, 8pm, at AMC Arizona Center 24

565 North 3rd St.
Phoenix , AZ  85004

So if you’re going to be in the area, come by and bring your friends.  Tickets tend to sell out for this event so if you want to get your ticket early, purchase one on the A3F site here.  Tickets are $8 for an adult, $6 for a student.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Another weekend of filming completed, but this time, not on Slayer Wars.  This weekend we competed it A3F’s 48 hour One-Shot Film Challenge with 29 other teams.

The fun began with a mixer in Phoenix on Friday night.  At the end of the gathering they revealed the details for the 48 hour films.  They needed to be one continu0us shot of 1-3 minutes (that part we already knew), needed to have a specific line of dialogue, theme, and prop.

To make a long and sleepless story short, we did it!  We completed the film fulfilling all the requirements and actually with a few hours to spare.  I don’t think it is the best film we have ever done and I am somewhat concerned with whether or not it will be seen as a comedy when we were going more drama (you’ll understand when you see it), but I am extremely proud of all of the cast and crew for all of their hard work and support.

We should be hearing back on whether we got into the top 10 or not by the end of the week.  The top 10 will be screened on October 22nd at the A3F Festival.  If we make it, I hope everyone can try to make it, I know it’s a Thursday night…  But if not, the film will be available here on dreamstalkerfilms.com after the festival!  In the meantime you can check out some further details on the film, “Down and Out”  on it’s new page here.  Also, there are more pictures from the set on the DreamStalker Films page on Facebook.