Today I found out that Carrie Fisher died. 2016 has shown a lot of people dying. People who I will forever miss. Musicians and actors that I loved. So many. But today we lost one who has truly dominated my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Wherever you are, I have a wish for you. Whatever your life has been like this year, I have a wish for you. Whatever you want to see when you wake up, I have a wish for you. Today I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wasn’t going to shoot a whole movie with a girl playing with guns, only to end it with the Good Guys marching off screen and fade to black. Yeah, I know a lot of artsy people like to do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We have spent thousands of years raiding, killing, and enslaving each other. Our civilizations are built on the burial grounds of much older civilizations. We killed some of them. Others collapsed on their own. We have lurched from one apocalypse[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a lot of fun shooting that little Ten Days from Mars movie. I also learned a lot. Doing it in black and white made for some interesting shifts in colors that I hadn’t anticipated. My personal assistant’s white[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another lesser known fact of the Slavery era in America is the role that Irish slaves filled. The British first sold political prisoners at a cheaper cost than the stronger African slaves, and then began a program of removing Catholicism[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My Ten Days From Mars film was supposed to take place back before Contact, when we still had to boost people out of the planetary gravity wells on booster rockets or the space elevators. Back when it took days of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everybody knows the Africans were once used as slave labor in the cotton fields. Their lobby does not let anyone forget it. But a little known secret is that the Chinese maintained slave trading markets long after the American Civil[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had this dream of making movies when I was a kid. I actually filmed quite a few back during high school. One of the first good ones I did was this old science fiction noir film about traveling to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So many of us spent so much of our time in the past concerned over who was more human than another. There were real scientists who once said that people from Africa were fallen humans. That they deserved to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…