The Best Little Feature Film in Texas

I recently had the pleasure of returning to my home state of Texas to shoot a feature film just outside of Dallas. This has been a dream of mine ever since I left to come to L.A. over 11 years ago.

I cannot describe how it truly awesome it was to take the skills and friendships that I have cultivated in L.A. and put them to use back home.

It was a blessing getting to work with an awesome crew of locals. I can't thank them enough for all their hard work, and I hope I get another chance to go back and do it again.

And, with any luck, you'll be able to catch The Last Possession in a theater near you!

"Out of Print" News

OOP played in 35mm at the Crest Theater in Westwood on October 19th. I wasn't able to attend, but I'm told the print is absolutely gorgeous. It then played the following weekend at the Filmshift Festival in Boston and was very well received. Look for more screening info soon!

Oh yeah, and here's a picture of Julia Marchese and I receiving our Programmer's Award at the Sidewalk Film Fest in Birmingham:

Sidewalk Film Fest 2014

Last weekend I had the pleasure of showing Out of Print at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, AL, and had THE BEST time I have ever had a film festival. The venues were great (including the very amazing Alabama Theater), the other filmmakers were a joy to meet and hang out with, and it was seriously the most well-run festival I have ever been a part of.

I will recommend this film festival to every filmmaker I meet from now on.
Oh yeah, and Out of Print won the Programmer's Award!

Out of Print Trailer!

Here's the trailer for Out of Print, a documentary feature film I shot about revival cinema, 35mm preservation, and the New Beverly Cinema!
Shot on 35mm film and digital video, featuring interviews from Patton Oswalt, Kevin Smith, Rian Johnson, Seth Green, Clu Gulager, Joe Dante, Mark Romanek, Joe Carnahan, John Landis, Lloyd Kauffman, Edgar Wright, and dozens of other filmmakers and film geeks.

Check it out!

New Camera Package

I recently purchased a new Canon C100 camera package with a Ninja Blade recorder. It features:

• Same beautiful sensor as the C500 and C300 
• Records 10-bit 4:2:2 (either ProRes or Avid DNxHD) 
• Cleaner image with less noise 
• Fantastic in low light 
• Sharper detail 
• More visual information to color with in post 
• Records up to 7 hours at the highest bitrates with my included SSD drives
  - OR -
• Record directly to your own 2.5" drives so you never have to "dump" footage; you can just walk away with the drives at the end of the day 

It's available as a package with myself or as a stand-alone rental. Rates, as always, are negotiable.

Future Phone

From the guys that brought you Bounty Killer comes FUTURE PHONE! It's an epic, time-traveling, action-adventure, romantic comedy! With ninjas!!! (I shot the stuff with the ninjas.)
Check it out!

Adidas commercial now online!

I recently shot an Adidas commercial with NFL stars Eric Berry and Sammy Watkins. Check it out!

Music Video and Web Series

I'm so happy to announce the release of Yellow Red Sparks' video for "Happiness Comes in a Box"!

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"Misdirected", a web series I shot, recently played at the Vancouver Web Fest. Oh yeah, plus, you know, SEASON 2!!

"Your Mother's Maiden Name" now online!

This short film I shot has been making the festival rounds, appearing in the Charleston Intl. Film Fest, Sonoma Intl. Film Fest, NewFilmmakers New York, and L.A. Comedy Fest. And now it's watchable in its entirety online!

Check it out!

Keeping Busy

Well I've had a pretty amazing month shooting music videos, a commercial for Adidas, operating a camera for the Codex booth at NAB, and climbing a mountain to shoot a spec for a feature, all culminating in an amazing telecine session at Fotokem!

I'm looking to carry this momentum into the summer where I plan to shoot a couple more feature films. Fingers crossed!

Two New Music Videos

Here's two music videos I shot that were produced, shot within a week of eachother, edited, and colored in two weeks. Then released on the same day.

Enjoy!

Festivals galore!

So a couple short films I shot are playing in some festivals around the country. Here's the links:

For the Love of Nothing is playing April 10th in the Fester: The Mindfuck Festival in Downtown L.A.

Your Mother's Maiden Name will be playing in sometime between April 9th and 13th at the Charleston Internation Film Festival
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sometime between April 2nd and 6th at the Sonoma International Film Festival .

Come check them out!

Vimeo is back!

OK, Vimeo is working again. Check out my videos!

Vimeo Attacked!

Someone has hacked Vimeo.com with a denial of service attack, meaning that none of my videos can play right now. Hopefully they'll have the issue resolved soon so you can watch my reel and other videos. Check out my Vimeo page for more info: https://vimeo.com/alexsimondp