April 13th, 2009
by Carlos in Film, Video
Spencer Pharr will be producing and directing a new upcoming short titled “Sawed-Off” during the first week of May and asked me to sign on to the project as their editor. Spencer gave me some RED footage to play with in order to understand and choose a workflow for his film. This will be my first post-production gig dealing with the RED workflow. I’ve been reading up on a lot of workflow types with RED and I think I found one that I am happy with. Since I have a Dual 2.8Ghz Quad-Core MacPro with 8GB of RAM, I’ll be going with the following workflow Read the rest of this entry »
April 5th, 2009
by Carlos in Film
My friends John Handem and Galen Carter-Jeffrey invited me this morning to the set of a new film shooting in Austin, TX titled “El Coyote”, currently being directed by Jay Galvan, produced by Steven Lane, and the Assistant Director is Jolyn Janis of Digital Defacto. The Director of Photography is Austin’s very own Michael Morlan of Austin Film Tools. Charles Nwachukwu, was also running around the set as well.
RED Camera 01
RED Camera 02
100mm Carl Zeiss Lens
March 23rd, 2009
by Carlos in Film, Web
SXSW 2009 has come and gone, and with that, here are some of the things that I experienced at this year’s film + interactive festival. I had missed out on SXSW 2008 but I told myself that I would not miss SXSW this next year! I arrived at the Austin Convention Center Friday afternoon and picked up my badge and goodie bags. The trade shows and panels that I wanted to attend wouldn’t be until Saturday so I made my way back home to drop off my bags. Since I live only 2 miles from downtown Austin, I decided to walk to my first destination, the Paramount Theater where I got the chance to catch a sneak peek of the new movie “I Love You Man!” The whole cast was present at the screening and stayed afterward for a great Q&A. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, then you are missing out!
Films at SXSW 2009
Austin Convention Center
Paramount Theater
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February 24th, 2009
by Carlos in Film
Our new feature film Hands of God is in its final phase of post-production and we are now releasing the official trailer. The film used several local cast & crew talent from around the El Paso, TX area including: Manny Rubio, Jim Daross, Marco Naylor, Karen Moore, Frank Laverpool, Nomar Rizo, etc. Joining us on the crew side were Benny Ontiveros & Monica Chavira. My brother Octavio and girlfriend Sandy Salinas served as producers for the film.
For more information about Hands of God check out our blog archives or the forums at EpFilm to see our entire production stages of the film.
Click on the image below to view the trailer:
Hands of God Trailer
February 14th, 2009
by Carlos in Film
Recently, I was hired to edit a short film titled Los Encinos by Marcus Cox. They filmed the movie using the Sony EX1 back in January and are now in post-production. I had met some of the crew who worked on the film but also had the chance to meet some of the actors in the film. Karrie Cox (Writer & Director) and Marcus Cox (Producer) were very gracious hosts and we had a lot of fun with them. We are almost done editing the short film and then its off to color and audio correction. It should be ready to send off to film festivals later on this year. We’ll be sure to feature it on our website soon!
Marcus & Karrie Cox
Me, Marcus, & Karrie
Richard & Sean
Me & Trenton
Justin & Sandy
Me, Trenton, & Justin
January 31st, 2009
by Carlos in Film
Sandy, Neal, and myself all attended the Grand Re-opening of Austin Studios courtesy of the Austin Film Society. Austin Studios unveiled their new facilities at the old Mueller Airport Friday evening. The studio made $5 million dollars worth of improvements approved by Travis County voters. Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater cut the ribbon to start off the ceremony. The party was held in Sound Stage 3, which is now home to one of the biggest green screens in Texas next to Troublemaker Studios. Sandy and I took photos at the green screen and our friend Neal was interviewed by Fox7 and gave his take on the new facilites and opportunities. We met up with lots of old friends and even go to meet Jabbar K. Raisani, one of the visual effects artists who created the Iron Man Suit for Robert Downy Jr. I also ran into Patricia Vonne there and she was kind enough to introduce us to Eleonora Avellán. Awesome! Below are some photos I took with my cell phone and the Fox7 News package with Neal’s interview.
Fox7 News Package with Neal Barenblat
September 15th, 2008
by Carlos in Film
Today was the final day of production for Hands of God. It’s been great working with everyone on this project. Manny, Benny, Monica, Marco, Frank, Raymond, Arturo, My Dad, Chops, Laura, Jim, everyone who had a helping hand in this movie. Jacob Cintron, the CEO of Del Sol Hospital let us using his conference room for the final scene.
Manny had just finished his Easy Money audition and came straight from the airport to our last day of production. What a trooper haha. I’ll be posting more information later about my entire experience. I think I will miss barracuda most of all.
View all photos, go to: http://www.epfilm.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=868
September 14th, 2008
by Carlos in Film, Video
Our second to last day of production. Manny had to leave for LA to audition for a TV show called Easy Money. He would be returning tomorrow to finish his final scene. This gave Benny, Monica, Sandy, and I a chance to finish the final scene with Marco and Karen since we were rained out last week. We set up the shot outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral and we were able to finish everything in about 30min. We needed to work fast since we were running out of light. We said our goodbyes to Karen and Marco and thanked them for working with us on our production.
More photos can be viewed at www.epfilm.org
September 13th, 2008
by Carlos in Film
Jim Daross came to finish his final scene for our film. I decided to dedicate several hours to this particular scene because it was going to be very crucial. My dad was able to simulate the V-Tach rhythm for us on the defibrillator as Arturo made the surgical scar for Jim Daross. When we finished with this scene, we filmed the finale of the surgery scenes as well as the second part of the conference room scene. This was our final day here at Dr. Moldes’ office and we were so thankful to them for letting conlude the hospital scenes at their clinic.
More photos can be viewed at www.epfilm.org
September 12th, 2008
by Carlos in Film
This was one of our tougher days since it was a crucial make-up scene. Ivan came back to the set to finish his final scene as a gun shot wound victim. Our good buddy Arturo Portillo was able to come by and do our makeup for the scene as well as participate in a small role. The make-up Art did was really amazing. He never ceases to amaze me. My dad also came by to give us a lot of medical advise when it came to treating the gun shot wound victim. We were able to wrap up the day without any problems.
More photos can be seen at www.epfilm.org.
