HISTORY TOO
The Android Walks
After Picture Windows, while working on Epiphany's Independent feature, Road Dogs, I took a job working with a San Fernando based company that had secured a contract for an installation piece from the Gifu province of Japan . The project had to be executed in Japanese (I know nothing of this language), but I wrote the treatment and after a considerable delay, was hired to write and direct the 20 minute show.
The Android Walks was shot on location at a sewage reclamation plant. It smelled really bad. The days were long and the nights longer, but through all of the challenges, the project was delivered on time with ample invention: we shot on Beta SP wide Screen, then upconverted on the Sony lot to 35mm. Our piece was used as the sales tool for Sony's upconversion process, a hot and expensive item at the time.
The Android Walks introduced Riko, the green cherubic young Asian woman whose job it was to seek out and destroy evil elements of the internet. Our deadline was absolutely ridiculous, but by the end of the day, we brought this exciting little drama to life for thousands visiting the theme park in Gifu.
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives
I was brought on this project as Supervising Producer. As such, I was the last type writer for the series. I hired the directors and the writers and worked with a ton of found footage as well as segments from other documentaries and feature films that were in the B-Movie archive of the distribution company that hired me.
The concept for Phenomenon: The Lost Archives was to create a Twighlight Zone type of series but based upon conspiracy and suppressed information. Dean Stockwell hosted and he was the perfect choice. The celebrity segments (of which there were about 101) were shot on location in Romania. My old friend and Director of Photography, Barbu Marian spent about three weeks on locations that included the Romanian Opera House and the catacombs of Count Dracula (Vlad The Impaler). We produced 14 hours of reality television which aired on PBS.
Nods to Ayal Nitzan and Randy Naft.