Times are tough and movie tickets are expensive. Younger folks who troll the internet while wearing their Guy Fawkes masks need a place where they can get their entertainment fix without having to twist their ethics into pro-piracy pretzels. A place that SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA might leave alone…
Ah, hell. YouTube changed my account to a preferred status and now I can upload long-ass videos, alright?!
Yes, good news for me, you and pirates! For the last 24 hours I have been uploading my back catalogue of film shorts ranging from 1995 to 2005!
Here they are. The full films. For free. All you have to do is STOP ACTA.
Falling Words (1995)
My first film short was inspired by a girl I fell in love with… who was afraid of me. Or so I thought. She had a boyfriend and I had no morals. We met while working on a play where I played Beethoven’s nephew who was obsessed with a girl while reading Sorrows of Young Werther, which is about a boy who was obsessed with a girl. To get into character, I obsessed on this girl. Not sure where the idea came from.
On closing night, as we finished our two hour tender hug outside the theatre, we were robbed at knife-point by a gang. She lost her “promise” ring. I lost my dignity. Then we lost contact. I couldn’t get her out of my mind for over a year.
Then, one day I was driving through Beverly Hills and I saw her convertible in front of me, her beautiful hair trailing in the wind. I didn’t speed up to her, but just naturally cruised up to her. She glanced in her mirror and saw me, then made a swift turn and sped up a side street like a maniac. Had I become “that guy” for her? Time to write a film short.
(We did meet up years later and laughed about the whole thing. She ended up with a high-powered Hollywood player who could snuff out my meager career with a phone call… so they’ll both remain nameless.)
Not sure you wanna commit to 18 minutes? Watch the trailer.
It also features Jason Oliver (Stand By Me) and Chayse Dacoda (While You Were Out).
Made for $5000. You pay nada, baby!
The Eighth Plane (1998)
This baby started out as a way for three out of (film/tv) work actors to be creative. It was a group effort, from story idea to directing. It was Inspired by an LA Weekly article about Scientology’s attempt to saturate search engine results with pro-Scientology mirror sites due to the illegal release of the Fishman Papers.
Of course, Scientology was suing everybody then and we got a little chicken shit. We decided to parallel all the whackadoodle esoterica of the Operating Thetans with alternate verbiage… But then couldn’t resist throwing in a bumper sticker when we were on set.
Not sure you wanna commit to 24 minutes? Watch the trailer.
Made for $8000. You pay zilch, baby!
Freud and Darwin Sitting in a Tree (2000)
To tell you the inspiration for this comedy would be to spoil the plot and weird-out some of my readers. Let’s just say social taboos and family dysfunction are blended together for some stimulating mayhem.
Not sure you wanna commit to 27 minutes? Watch the trailer.
This also features Chayse Dacoda once again, as well as Delaina Mitchell (Vanilla Sky), Jamie Donahue (The Dead Hate Living) and the late, great Pamela Gordon (Chuck & Buck, Weird Science).
Made for $7000. You pay bupkis, baby!
Duck, Duck, GOOSE! (2005)
Now, this here is a big deal because I still sell it via Amazon. But after loading up the other movies and seeing how some Facebook fans were watching them and actually enjoying them I decided this film really deserves an audience.
Seriously, this one I’m very proud of.
We started this as a possible video project for YouTube and ended up making a 20 minute Super 16mm film that played over 20 festivals worldwide and won several awards.
Not sure you wanna commit to 20 minutes? Watch the trailer.
This features Robin Daléa (Real Girls Guide), Bryan Cuprill (Supernatural, The Jadagrace Show, Accidentally On Purpose), Dan Butler (Frasier) and Michael Cade (California Dreams, Chaplin).
Made for $20,000. You pay zip, baby!
The Crooked Eye (2009)
This one, however, I am not uploading for another 2 years as it’s being sold via iTunes. I spent 4 years on it and it is, by far, the best thing I have ever done in my film short journey.
iTunes • IndiePix • Amazon • FilmThreat Review
Made for $40,000. You pay $2.99. Is that fair, Anonymous?
So, if you watch my 4 free film shorts in a row, that’s about the same as watching a 90 minute movie. Granted, the production value and acting (yes, mine, too) have evolved over the years, but there is enough goodness in these flicks to please many of you.
And if you like any of them, please pass the link on to a friend! An audience is all I ever really wanted.
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I must confess I've been curious about Duck Duck Goose! A few years ago a friend I met on a Resident Evil forum showed me the trailer and said "Tell me If this guy, sounds familiar to you". My inmediate response was: "This is Wesker!". And that was the very first time I met Mr. DC. Douglas (virtually at least). So, of course I'm gonna watch this right away!
Definitely, I've got The Crooked Eye on my list as well. This week is too possible that I can finally get my (long awaited) Apple TV. When that happens, be sure you're gonna get those 3 bucks from me. Promised.
-_-* I personally don't wear a Guy Fawks mask…. but it's not a bad look – quite fetching haha.
I only download comics, real books, and movies because they are all banned where I'm at. Or the ministry of 'education' with take black markers and cross out anything they don't like in magazines and and newpapers or anything with ink on it out.
(rant warning below)
At one point in my life in one of my schools, my biology teacher under orders of the minister ordered all her students at each period; to take their books, turn to the chapters of evolution and human anatomy, and glue, staple, tear out – then burn them. I contested and her reply was " that's how it has to be ———- "
I refused and literally ran out of the school with the principle, super int, my biology teacher all chasing after me for four blocks – with all the students laughing at me. They didn't get what the big deal was and were jubilant with what they were doing – of course.
I finally stopped running realizing that my goal was unattainable, curled up on the ground in tears because I knew I had no where to run anymore, my house was 15 miles away
. Clinging to the book like my life was dependent on it ( I was 13) and I was wrestling these grown adults for the book and just would not let it go. They threatened to call my mom – I refused, they threatened me with expelling – I refused, then when they finally got me back in the school; literally picking me up like I was a bag of rice, and in the office they threatened me with the police imprisonment- I still refused.
They did in fact charge me with thief, deliberate disobedience of the law, breaking of the code of conduct in public and insurrection against the government – a thirteen year old child.
That was without SOPA, ACTA and PIPA.
It wouldn't be my last act of 'defiance' against oppression and the way I see it; governments never needed reasons or justifications to inflict oppression upon a population. In a way, this is just a way to get the people to voluntarily sell away their souls.
What better method to enslave mankind than voluntary enslavement?
(rant end)
Freud and Darwin was how I came to be a fan of DC Douglas and he hasn't disappointed anyone. sorry for the raaaant everybody X/
Whoa. Where do you live? I didn't realize you were in the Middle East. Are you in Egypt?
It's more complicated than that unfortunately though you are right on one account; but to even try to explain would be a story in itself. I am a piece of everything on both sides of the Atlantic and the pain is just apart of that puzzle. I just wanted to share that small thing to make a point. Some people have no choice but to download like people in my situation. It's not something we have a choice over; we want comics, music, dvd's, combat ready master lightsabers, and books – our governments do not. Why should we get punished for something the governments purposely enforce on us to begin with? If we steal it's jail, if we don't it's another type of jail – either way we're prisoners under SOPA, PIPA and ACTA. Only now the entire world will be in the same boiling pot – lobster anyone?
I swear I will check out all of them… but right now I'm busy playing a certain new RE Game (Yeah, the one without Wesker, so I'm a bit of a traitor, who's surprised
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