Written by Caleb Young
My twin brother, Joshua Young, is a pretty prolific writer: poems, plays, scripts, books, essay (and quite good at these things). But poetry and small press don't pay well, and yet he wants to market his work and get it out there. So we made a deal: He would write for me (scripts, revisions, etc), and I would shoot his book trailers with my team. And I think he gets the better deal because our team is Chris Koser (DoP), Avielle Heath (Prod Design), Alex Stowe (Producer, AD), Cameron Currier (Camera), among the rest of our Hand Crank Crew.
There are a few rules. He has to give us the creative, the shoot can't be longer than two hours, and the edit can't take longer than four (we can also use found footage, if it fits the project). 

His most recent book is a Play in Verse called THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE. There is a lot going on in the book, so we had to come up with creative that we could tell the story, and that we could produced inside boundaries we have set. My brother wanted to do it in one shot and that was the plan, but on the day things changed - like they always do. 

They obstacles were: 
It stopped raining and there wasn't budget for a rain machine. 
It was hard to hide the curtain that would be the final shot of our reveal. 
And our time limit. 

In the end, the shoot was three hours long. But we got some great looking stuff, thanks to Avielle - who constructed a working theatre curtain that could close in the middle of the woods - Chris Koser, who makes everything look great. And our talent, Kirk A Hayes, Ross Robinette, and Mike Olsen, who braved the weather and mud just for the fun of the shoot. 

Here's what we created for no budget, 3 hour shoot and 4 hours of editing.
                                             
                                                                          WATCH THE TRAILER

Knapp Bros.Studios is teaming up with Hand Crank Films to shoot a music video for up-and-coming Seattle artist, Gallowbird who has just released his new album “The Driftless Adrift”, which is available on Itunes for download. The video deals with the pains of growing up, as well as the dark side and impact of religion on youth. The production is taking place in downtown Sedro Wooley as well as Bellingham locations. Release date is slotted for early March.

Stay tuned for production photos.

 For more info about Gallowbird visit their website  or check them out on Facebook 

Electric Shadow Films is excited to announce that after nearly a year of intensive writing, filming, and editing, Pete Owens & the Trek of Destiny will have it’s world premiere on June 25th, 2013 at 9:00 pm at the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham, WA.

The film follows the exploits of college juniors Pete Owens and Eric Stennington as they traverse the globe in search of the mystical artifact the Idol of Prosperity.  But along the way they must avoid the clutches of the sinister antiques dealer Victor St. Helens, who is in hot pursuit of the sacred object as well.     

The film was filmed entirely within the Pacific Northwest and used locations like the Columbia River Gorge and the peaks of Mount Baker to bring to life the exotic world of adventuring as portrayed in the film.  We hope that along with being entertaining, this film shows just how varied our region is when it comes to stunning locales in our own backyard. 

So come out on June 25th at 9pm at the Pickford Film Center. Dress in your best adventuring garb and be ready for a heavy doses of fun, action, and peril in Pete Owens & the Trek of Destiny!
                                                                                 By: Nick Nielsen 

Family Planning and Other Funny Stories was born out of a conversation that I had with my oldest daughter… she told me that I should “date…date EVERYONE.” I thought of all the ways this request could be taken way too far and go completely sideways. A few weekends later I had completed several good drafts of the screenplay and thought the story was funny enough to be a TV pilot. A little over a year later we shot Family Planning and Other Funny Stories. We just completed filming the pilot over the Easter weekend.

As Family Planning goes to editing, our next step will be to plan what festivals we’ll be entering. We do hope to sell this pilot to a network. If we don’t manage to pull that off, we’ll make an amazingly, hilarious web series. Either way, it’s going to be a fun ride!

We’ll be building our web page and Facebook page shortly! For further info. and updates please contact me at [email protected]                                                                                       By Sue Mattson