Don Swaynos http://donswaynos.com Freelance Editor / Screenwriter Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:43:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 JollyvillePictures.com is now online! http://donswaynos.com/2010/08/23/jollyvillepictures-com-is-now-online/ http://donswaynos.com/2010/08/23/jollyvillepictures-com-is-now-online/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:32:56 +0000 Don jollyvillepictures lies critically acclaimed online produced winning tate jollyvillepictures lies critically acclaimed online produced winning tate http://donswaynos.com/?p=511


JollyvillePictures.com is now online and so is Tate English’s critically-acclaimed, award-winning short film The Ballad of Friday and June (which I produced and edited). The website also features lots of other work from Jollyville Pictures (Tate English, Dano Johnson, and myself) including our new web-series Love, Lies, & Video Files.

]]> http://donswaynos.com/2010/08/23/jollyvillepictures-com-is-now-online/feed/ 0 S&M Lawn Care to Premiere at the Friars Club http://donswaynos.com/2010/08/16/sm-lawn-care-to-premiere-at-the-friars-club/ http://donswaynos.com/2010/08/16/sm-lawn-care-to-premiere-at-the-friars-club/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:25:18 +0000 Don friars club lawn care dates announced month city friars club lawn care dates announced month city http://donswaynos.com/?p=491



Mark Potts’ feature-length comedy S&M Lawn Care (which I edited) is going to have its world premiere next month at the Friars Club Film Festival in New York City. Dates will be announced soon on the festival’s website.

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The music video for Jesse Dayton’s I’m Comin’ Home is now online. The song is available on the compilation album Voices of a Grateful Nation Vol. 1, sales of which benefit the Welcome Home Project and Soldiers’ Angels.  I directed and edited the video which incorporates footage from our award-winning documentary Year at Danger.

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Collection Agency Films’ The Bright Knight just took home a Gold Pollie Award for Best Web Video. The spot was written by Dano Johnson and myself from a concept by Bill Hillsman, it was produced by Collection Agency Films and Northwoods Advertising. For more information on Collection Agency check out their recently re-vamped website. Also a list of all this year’s Pollie winners can be found here.

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A screen grab from Collection Agency Film’s ad for Charles Wheelan (which was written by Dano Johnson and myself, from an idea by Bill Hillsman) was recently used as the photo for the Huffington Post’s story on “The Craziest Political Campaign Ads from Across America,” which we take as a compliment. You can watch the ad, along with some others (which I would argue might be crazier) at Collection Agency’s website.

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Richard’s Art of the Deal is a short documentary which profiles Standford University alumni Richard Rainwater through interviews with his friends and co-workers. The film was produced by Trinity Films for the 2010 Arbuckle Award Reception presented by the Stanford Business School Alumni Association.

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The Austin Chronicle’s Marc Savlov recently wrote an article about the “loosely knit” filmmaking collective Jollyville Pictures, to which I belong. Savlov mainly talks about The Ballad of Friday and June, calling it “one of the most exquisite short films to come out of Austin in ages” adding “you’ve never seen anything quite like (it)” and “At a tight nine minutes, Friday and June eloquently articulates, with equal parts humor and heartache, an unnameable cri de coeur that nevertheless should be instantly recognizable to anyone who’s ever chased an artistic dream, stumbled, got back up, and grabbed hold even harder than before. It’s that good.”


That article also talks about Year at Danger (calling it “immensely powerful”), Collection Agency Films, and the music video for Zombie a Go Go.


The issue is on stands now or you can read the article at The Austin Chronicle’s website.

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Here is the Andy Warhol-inspired video I directed for the band Love at 20. This clip, for the song Waiting, will eventually serve as part 3 in a series of 4 videos, each of which will have a different director making an homage to one of their favorite filmmakers. Love at 20′s album Time to Begin is currently available through iTunes and the completed anthology should be finished early next year.

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The American Widow Project has just launched a new, redesigned website created by Site Goals in Austin, TX. The new site includes improved navigation and usability and will also incorporate the series of web videos that the AWP will produce starting in January.

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Recently I’ve been directing music videos. Currently I’m in post-production on two projects; one for Jesse Dayton from the Voices of a Grateful Nation compilation and one for Love at 20 off of their debut album Time to Begin. Also, Fangoria recently posted this behind the scenes video from the Zombie a Go Go shoot this past summer (an alternate, non-gory version of the finished music video is embedded above, the gory version can be seen here). More information on all things music video related can be found here.

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