The following is a collection of entries I've produced with the Montgomery County Community College Five Day Film Festival. I've been participating in this challenge since 2007. Each year competing filmmakers draw a genre and begin crafting their work. The event has continued to spur my creativity and passion for filmmaking, so it is easy to return to it each year.
The Hiking Courier (2015) is a nostalgic blast of adventure. I wanted to produce something in nature. I also wanted it to be hilarious, even absurd. For a few years I had been getting genres such as Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Horror, and Thriller. This year I finally pulled something different—Holiday Film. A subgenre. Easy to smudge out in the setting of the story. Instead of feeling confined to a dark or augmented reality, I could write a more flexible script. Without Steve Viola I wouldn't have been able to pull it off and to him I owe what I consider one of the most covetted awards of the screening: Audience Favorite.
East Coast Alien (2014) is a film I made about living in Los Angeles. I ideated and wrote the piece in a few hours and only had two days to produce, edit, and compose a soundtrack due to external circumstances. At the screening the film was awarded Best Editing and Best Sound.
In The Neighborhood Of Perfect (2011) is a five-minute film I made with Ross Prajzner for the MC3 Five Day Film Competition and Festival. Ross and I conceptualized and conceptualized, shot, and edited the film in five days during harrowing blizzard. At the festival we were awarded Best Acting, Best Production Design and Best Cinematography.
