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VARIETY REVIEWS PIT STOP
Following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Yen Tan’s Pit Stop received a fantastic review from Variety: Pit Stop offers fully realized characters, and soft-pedals Lone Star State stereotypes. Never pulling emotional strings, the pic’s unwavering understatement pays off in … Continue reading
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“BEST OF 2012”
A bunch of my projects have ended up on some “Best of 2012” lists. Mark Bell at Film Threat called Cinema Six the second best film of the year (only after Django Unchained) and Don Simpson at Smells Like Screen Spirit listed … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Cinema Six, Director, Editor, Pictures of Superheroes, Press, Producer, Screenwriter
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PICTURES OF SUPERHEROES REVIEWS
Pictures of Superheroes premiered at the Austin Film Festival. A lot of people saw it and then said nice things about it: “I have never seen a movie like Pictures of Superheroes… It is unlike anything I have ever seen before; … Continue reading
Posted in Director, Editor, Jollyville Pictures, Pictures of Superheroes, Press, Producer
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PICTURES OF SUPERHEROES TO PREMIERE AT AFF
Pictures of Superheroes, is going to have its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival. The film was included in AFF’s “early ten” announcement, which you can read about at Variety, Movieline, The Austin American Statesman, The Austin Chronicle, and Indiewire, and you … Continue reading
MORE SLATES
My short film Six Hundred and Forty-One Slates continues its festival run with September screenings at the Oakland Underground Film Festival and the South Texas Underground Film Festival. It’s also picked up some press from Laughing Squid, The SF Egotist, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Six, Editor, Experimental Film, Film Festivals, Press
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EDITING THE BOUNCEBACK
I’m currently editing Bryan Poyser’s romantic comedy The Bounceback. The film stars Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism), Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield), Sara Paxton (The Innkeepers), Zach Cregger (The Whitest Kids U’Know), and Addison Timlin (Californication). You can read more about the film … Continue reading
Posted in Editor, Love & Air Sex, Press
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CINEMA SIX REVIEWS
Since its world premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival this weekend, reviews have been pouring in for our film Cinema Six. Film Threat: 5 Stars. I urge you, if you like to laugh, to find out where Cinema Six is playing … Continue reading
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CINEMA SIX HAS A WORLD PREMIERE, A TRAILER, A POSTER, AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF PRESS
We’re very excited to announce that Mark Potts and Cole Selix’s Cinema Six is going to have it world premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival and to celebrate we’ve released the film’s trailer [NSFW] and poster (designed by Yen Tan, Otto is the One). In addition, … Continue reading
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PRESS FOR PICTURES OF SUPERHEROES
The trailer for Pictures of Superheroes has been making the rounds on the internet and getting some press. Don Simpson at Film School Rejects says: …if I was a praying man, I would be praying that Don Swaynos’ Pictures of Superheroes and Mark … Continue reading
SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE SLATES
Sorry, I made an experimental short film. It’s called Six Hundred and Forty-One Slates and it’s a compilation of every slate marker from the production of an independent film. It’s going to have it’s world premiere February 9th at the … Continue reading
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