FWF Pictures

Star power becomes a star curse for a collection of very vincible men.  FWF Pictures presents a Thriller short film made for the Kazoo Forty-Eight 2025  Required Elements: Mailbox, Pepper Shaker, Guy who laughs at the wrong times.  Line: "I'm pretty sure I saw that on the news!" Filmed 4/5/2025.  Completed 4/6/2025.  Released 4/24/2025 Some thoughts below... When the crew steps down, a Charlie, Eric and Graydon thing is formed.  Very proud of this Thriller created for the 2025 Kazoo Film Project.  A nice day in the woods similar to "Daddy for a Good Time" but with a bit more focus and one less child involved. I did not mean to bring a full on video game character into this but I think it was a good use of me and moved us from point A to point B quickly.  Just sad I couldn't grow out my facial hair enough in time but I made the right choice not using a fake mustache. Eric and I have been doing this for almost 20 years now, we have both gotten bett...

In between projects this year, Charlie and Pasha got together to have 6 conversations about their labels and what fit/what doesn't.  What resulted is the Fake Podcast, available on YouTube and Spotify .  We welcome you to skim it and think about your labels.  Episodes:  1.  Fake Gamer 2.  Fake Parent 3.  Fake Artist 4.  Fake Black 5.  Fake Christian (the election day special) 6.  Fake Friend

Nominated for "Best use of Prop," here is the 2024 Detroit 48 Hour Film Prject entry. Your office assistant enters the real world on a quest for purpose. Submission for the 48 Hour Film Project Detroit. 8/2/2024 Filmed in Kalamazoo and Otsego, MI www.FWFPictures.com Slightly upgraded from the festival cut.

  Winner of nothing at the 2024 Kazoo 48 Hour Film Festival. Super proud of this one and the team that created it.  From the idea that came from Justin to the welcoming of new members Jane and Pasha, everyone was great and I'll no longer say "THIS IS THE LAST ONE" after each of these we make.   It's a few weeks later and I'm thinking more about this.  I could have done more with the camera and worked in the elements better.  Still love it. Otsego (where I'm from) had a really nice library right in the middle of town.  I spent a lot of time there as a kid but my main memory is the librarians just not liking kids.  I actually went there to read most of the time (Internet wasn't a thing till I was in middle school) and they never seemed happy someone was using the space.  Otsego had like nothing going on so they should have been thrilled someone was actually going there, maybe I had too good of a church where you actually tried to make people f...

  Now for something completely different.  Thanks to friends Emerson, Pasha and Mandakini for support! Buy the Book on Amazon

  Did I really not make anything in the year 2022?  Shame on me.   The trend almost continued into 2023... but despite it being a bad week with very low response from my team and horrible weather: I made it happen. I say I because it was only me behind and in front of the camera.  I was listening to the Fort Minor Song "Remember the Name"   and it kind of fit the vibes I was giving myself cranking this out.   Vanity Plate I have an FWF Pictures vanity plate on my crappy car.  I think there is a better movie to be made about it but this is what I got.  You have the home owner posturing as a "man of the house" and a runner trying to force himself into success.  They run into each other and learn get a small amount of perspective before the whole thing ends in bloodshed (as many of my movies do because I don't have the time or energy for a natural conclusion). Behind the Scenes I'm fine with how it turned out.  The audio isn'...

I heard the term “brain-slivers” recently in reference to something you can’t get out of your head.  There are couple of film ideas that have been my personal brain-slivers so late last year I decided to take a break from social media and dig for the sliver in order to get one out of my head. This brain-sliver is called:  The 49th Hour  and it is my first feature length script. Log Line: A trouble man gathers a group of to make a movie on a cross country road trip as a way to ignore his current life crisis. Genres: Comedy, Road Trip, Coming of Age, Underdog Story Expected MPAA Rating: hard PG-13 or a soft R for language. It is written and almost well formatted.  I think it has a lot of structural problems but it’s an easy read.  A side goal was to write something that I could potentially put a team together and produce.  I don’t know if I will but it is definitely achievable with my current resources. My next step is to enjoy it being out of my head and on ...