The title of this blog is the title of the short film that I adapted from a friend's short story, and directed. It is available for viewing at www.jfhl.net. It's the only thing up there right now.
The video quality (and audio for that matter) leaves something to be desired. It was shot on a 200 dollar minidv camera, and it looks like it. So we're not submitting it to any festivals.
Then there was Stain. Stain was a short we did as part of a 24 hour film making contest. It was conceived, written, shot, edited in 24 hours. We had a 10 000 dollar camera, a 10 000 dollar editing suite, and a professional editor to go along with it. It rocks. Everybody did such a great job of it... except the computer that was supposed to render and burn it. That computer failed. So, we missed the deadline. It was probably the most morose and depressed room I've ever been in, watching the minutes tick away, knowing we were gonna miss the deadline after all that work.
But not all is lost. It's a good little short, and our awesome producer has found a couple other small film festivals she's going to submit it to. That's the long way of me saying that Stain is not yet available on the internet.
But in the meantime, check out "A Brief Monstrosity" and let me know what you think.
www.jfhl.net
Yeah. A year at film school to learn writing, and my first two projects out of school are... directing.
Anyways, I have submitted a video the Evil League of Evil. I filmed it way back when I was in Vancouver still, and it's basically just been sitting around, waiting for the doors to open. And now they are.
So here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9d94ZWqwZs
If anybody else has submitted an application, lemme know! I want to see them!
I suck at being on here lately. This seems to have been a problem for about the last 8 months... roughly the time I started at film school.
It's just so busy here! So far, I've written a feature length screenplay (which included an outline, two drafts of the treatment, writing the actual screenplay, then rewriting the screenplay), a spec episode of Reaper (which consisted of the same amount of work asthe screenplay... sending this off to the Austin Film Festival teleplay competition), sketch night (had 2 sketches produced), a short film that is soon to be in production (5 page short, but holy a lot of rewrites 
..), a pilot episode of a sitcom (awful. It was just awful.), a spec episode of What About Mimi (children's animated show), a speculative documentary idea (ick), plus all the regular school stuff that was just homework (genre studies type things).
On top of this, I've been working on several non-school projects... I've got one called "Henchmen" I'm hoping we'll be shooting on our own shortly with a few friends here in Vancouver, plus writing a pilot with a friend back in Edmonton (via msn, oh funtimes), PLUS with that same friend an actor friend (and a few filmly-inclined friends that are less involved), working on a soon-to-be you-tube short (and by soon, I mean Octoberish), and then a series of shorts with that same group.
And now, in school, we're writing our own TV pilots, starting a second movie, rewriting each other's sitcoms, and as I mentioned, going into production on our port-shorts.
I really do wish I was here more often, but I've just been incredibly busy with school. And drinking.
BTW... I suck at pitching. For some reason I start shaking and get nervous, and it's real embarassing. I was told that drinking could help loosen me up. Yes, I'm at a school where "drink before you come to class" is advice the teachers give me. I reall am not complaining.
But I will try to be more regular. I love the tv.com community, and really do wish to be more involved in it. For one reason or another, though, I've always been absent-ish... even before school here, I guess. Maybe one day that would change, I certainly hope it does.
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