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The Wadfather
Yes, it is true, I have completed my first feature length screenplay, The Wadfather. While I can't give you the whole plot I will give you a few tid bits: Van is a student filmmaker who drops out of USC because the other students are art snobs. After working at a video tape packaging plant he is offered the director's chair on an adult film based off of The Godfather titled The Wadfather. After shooting the project one of the actresses is found murdered and all of the cast and crew have become suspects. There you go, chew on that for a while. I am sorry to all those who may be offended (Mom, Dad, Grandparents) by the fact that I have placed this situation in the adult film world, things just work out that way. You would find out someday. Ric Malardi, ex-member of the band The Nimrods, has been cast to play Big Papa Floyd, but all other parts are still open. I am also looking for people to help out behind the camera, so please let me know if you are interested. Our cinematic journey will begin in mid-May and may run until early August. Be on the lookout for updates.

A Portrait of an Artist as the Wrong Man
Rich Jones, one of the Chi Energy 2 musicians, has just recently completed his first screenplay and I have been asked to direct. Jones is a writer for SCTV and has cast all of the parts for this 20-25 minute short. We will be shooting on DVCAM and will edit on Ja-cas! new non-linear system. This is a tale about a young man named Sebastian who is fed up with his girlfriend Caroline. In his journey of self reflection he meets Satan, his non-genderous soul mate and Flint, a guy who is way too cool for his own good. Shooting will begin in early May and the whole project should be completed by the middle of the summer.

Untitled Ghost Documentary
The documentary is entering its final stages. Production should be finished by the end of February.

Steve Barker, a filmmaker from Akron, and I are putting together a short documentary about haunted houses. Now, I don't mean the type you pay to walk around in on Halloween. I am talking about the "real thing." Have you ever thought that your house was haunted? Even as a kid? That is sort of what I am aiming at. There are real people out there who claim that they can see the souls of the dead. There are others who can speak to them telepathically. Some build equipment to hunt these ghosts. The best part about these people is that they live next door to you, they shop in the same stores as you and they even go to the same church as you.

Ohio is chock full of psychics, clairvoyants, transdimentional communicators and more. There are so many of these people in their own subculture that they are the perfect subjects for a documentary.

Do you have any ghost stories? Have or know a friend who owns a haunted house? Please let me know.

For more information about the people I am interviewing and places I am going take a look here:
Carrie Kohnya
Chris Woodyard
The Franklin Castle
Nick Reiter
Lily Dale, NY
Mary Anne

Untitled Ghost Documentary (see above)

Waiting For Truffaut (1999-2000)

Montezuma's Revenge (1997-1998)

The Big Night (2001)

The Brian Winterrowd Movie (1998-1999) My good brother Brian Winterrowd had several short film ideas that really didn't interrelate. This project was done on the spur of the moment. We grabbed a video camera, gave the actors a general idea of what to do and let them have at it. The whole this was done with a hand held video camera and available lighting. Some of the shots were done on the first take and some of them were redone up to 20 times just to get what we wanted. Most of the sketches have little to no story, but they all involve doughnuts. Although I almost never show this one to people, it has some of the best videography I have ever done. I you are one of the lucky few who do see it, expect to see people running around naked in public parks, tree hugging, candy sprinkle roads, Jello puppets, jolly green giants and cooter bug infested afros. The soundtrack includes music (used by permission) by bands such as The Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Marbles and Rocket Ship.

Eric's Dream Girl (1998) Eric's Dream Girl is a three minute silent short that I shot for Media Production Techniques at The University of Akron. It is the boiled down version of what later became Waiting For Truffaut. Eric is a lonely soul who sits around reading on sidewalks. A lovely young lady passes by and realizes that this is his chance to meet someone new. When he follows her around a corner, she mysteriously disappears. Later that night she appears in a dream and kisses him. Eric wakes up to realize that it was only part of his elaborate imagination and hangs his head, knowing that such a perfect girl can only exist in his mind.

Mantis Women From Planet X (????): A B+W Super 8 parody of old sci-fi films. I always loved the look of old Roger Corman movies. They were so cheap, yet so much fun. This film is supposed to capture that cinema magic and make fun of it. A race of half women, half preying mantis' come to invade earth. Their only mission is to mate with human males and, as all female praying mantis' do, consume their partner's head after the deed is done. The rough draft of the script has been done for quite some time now, but the cost of shooting the overall project would be astronomical. Some of the space craft designs may end up on this page sometime in the future and with photos of the models that were built.