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Meet the Filmmaker: Adam Rosenberg, “It’s Cold and It’s Dark”

“It’s Cold and It’s Dark”

www.mradamrosenberg.com

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Q: Why did you become a filmmaker?

AR: Filmmaking is an incredibly rewarding medium for me to tell stories. I also enjoy the mix of artistic expression and technical know how that is required to create films.

Q: What are we going to see at the EFP? Has it screened elsewhere and what are your plans for it?

AR: We will be seeing my very short film “It’s Cold and It’s Dark” which is ostensibly about a young man’s recurring nightmare. I’ve released the film online, but it has yet to screen anywhere else.

Q: What else are you working on?

AR: I am nearly finished with the world’s first (as far as I know) laser cut bologna stop motion animation.

Q: Tell us one weird thing about you and/or your movies?

AR: I have made 4 separate films in which I appear wearing tighty whities.

Q: Where can people go to find out more about you and your work?

AR: www.mradamrosenberg.com

Q: Is there anything you’d like to say about The Emerging Filmmakers Project?we liek to run a short Q and A with each filmmaker on the Emerging Filmmakers blog a week or two before the screening to help promote you and the event.
AR: I don’t know much about the EFP, as I’ve never attended a screening, but I’m excited to be involved in such a cool local filmmaking community event!
It’s Cold and It’s Dark will screen May 21st at the Emerging Filmmaker’s Project. 
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Meet the Filmmaker: David Quakenbush, “Dark Sky”

David Quakenbush

http://www.quakenbushimaging.com

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Q: Why did you become a filmmaker?

DQ: I see in shots, dream in three act structure and have a precise and vivid imagination. Film is the only way to share some of those dreams and ideas with other people.

Q: What are we going to see at the EFP? Has it screened elsewhere and what are your plans for it?

DQ: We’re going to see Dark Sky, a proof of concept video for an in-camera visual effect that came out well. The larger video project is parked pending funding, but the effect has continued to evolve into a performance art piece and an interactive lighting environment called the Aurora Vortex. The film premiered this summer at the Front Range Film Festival in Longmont, where we also hosted a Vortex party. It went very well. The Aurora Vortex is open to the public every first Friday night in my studio at 841 Sante Fe in Denver. http://www.auroravortex.com.

Q: What else are you working on?

DQ: After being in continuous production for nearly 12 years I’m confused and delighted by the feeling of not panicking about preproduction right now. I’ve also had a recent epiphany about interactivity — the concept of building something that you just sit and watch, or look at, suddenly seems tedious and very boring. Doing is a better experience than watching. I don’t know what will come of that realization.

That said I have several scripts parked in development right now including a very dark adaptation of a Grimms Tale — basically Mother Goose meets Dexter; a film noir cooking show where the recipes are toxic; and a science fiction piece about a pair of shape shifting telepathic aliens who take infinite turns reliving the final regrets of a long-deceased astronaut. I’m also promoting the Vortex, bootstrapping a freelance photography business and building chromatherapy clocks that challenge your preconceptions about the nature of time when you try to use them.
Q: Where can people go to find out more about you and your work?
Dark Sky will screen May 21st at the Emerging Filmmaker’s Project. 
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Meet the Filmmaker: Jim Ajemian, “Famous Last Words”

Famous Last Words

www.jimajemian.com

Jim AjemianQ: W did you become a filmmaker?

JA: Working with a camera has always been of interest, it started with travel photography and then my love for films made the decision to move forward with film making obvious.

Q: What are we going to see at the EFP? Has it screened elsewhere and what are your plans for it?

JA: It’s only screened once at the Mercury. It’s a little mystery, a little action, and a little random:) It started as an action sequence, then morphed into this short.

Q: What else are you working on?

JA: I have been helping out some other local artists on their film projects, Peter Simon’s “Headlong” Elgin Cahill’s “Oleander” and Eddie Portughese’s “Hitcher” I am personally working on a screenplay…

Q: Tell us one weird thing about you and/or your movies?

JA: I could eat shrimp cocktail for breakfast…as for my movies, I edit to the song “Hunger of the Pine” by Alt-J.

Q: Where can people go to find out more about you and your work?

JA:  www.jimajemian.com,  www.aspiring-minds.com

 

Famous Last Words will screen May 21st at the Emerging Filmmaker’s Project.