This should help us hold a camera for 8 hours a day...
That’s right! On November 6th, 2007 our company was officially registered and opened for business in Vancouver. Since then we’ve shot a feature film, a slew of short films (like Pinheads!), a web series (forthcoming), and plan to do a whole lot more. All of these wonderful things with very little funding too. If you will it dude, it is no dream.
The ghosts
However, we need your support to continue our dream and make cool films. We’re not asking for money, but we do want you to support us by spreading the gospel of the Skunk. Forward on our films, direct people to our site, and try to believe in us as more than just friends who make films. That is all we ask. Thank you for your continued support!
We’re elated to release the short documentary film “Pinheads: The Story of the Pacific Pinball Museum” today. Please give it a watch and let us know what you think by posting a comment here.
“Monsters“ low budget production method is pretty damn amazing and now this super-indie film has opened theatrically in Europe and North America and has been nominated for best film at the British Independent Film Awards. I saw this movie at SXSW this year and I definitely walked out of the screening with a lot of questions on how it was achieved. If you haven’t heard of this film it was written, directed and shot by Gareth Edwards and his crew of 5 throughout Guatemala, Belize, Mexico and Texas.
The story is set years after alien lifeforms have crashed along the Mexican-US border creating a biologically dangerous Infected Zone, essentially a no-man’s land where monster-fearing folk dare not tread. We follow the adventures of a Journalist who is sent to bring his boss’s daughter back to the US from Mexico which takes us through said Infected Zone. Here’s the trailer:
Now, this film was shot with the Sony EX3 (plus 35mm adapter) and an equipment budget of $15,000. All visual effects were produced by Gareth Edwards in his bedroom using Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Autodesk 3ds Max. Here’s a behind the scenes:
Whatever you think of the film itself, its production value is through the roof and it was all achieved with off-the-shelf, pro-sumer equipment and a dude who knew what he wanted and needed to do. Good story. The making-of, I mean. Truthfully I wasn’t convinced that the film narrative was pulled off that well and that any statements made regarding the political situation along the US-Mexican border were fairly incidental. I remember walking down the street after seeing this with my friends and questioning the sense of a good deal of the scenes, as though there was only a very tenuous connection between them all. This may be a result of their improvising the whole film as they went along. While watching Monsters I immediately thought of District 9 and how that movie had no qualms about being steadfastly political.
However, I am still behind this movie. You should see it.
