Attempting Fate
motion pictures
What supernatural powers are summoned when three siblings dabble in the Dark Roasted Arts?
Lee has trouble on all sides. Can he finally find a way to put power in his punch? Honorable Mention - Best Cinematography
Things seem normal…but all the cookies are gone. He's asking questions. Everyone's talking, But the answers file is coming up crumbs.
Sometimes dreams really do come true.
WINNER - Audience Favorite
Berry Dangeroux has escaped. There’s only one man who can bring her back. Emmerson Meyers !
The best 6 min cat musical of the year! - Variekitty
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you
If uncle Kenny anything, it is definitely,
definitely not a spy. Yet.
Dramedy : Aunt Ellie’s night of babysitting takes a turn thanks to a new family pet.
Drama: a young upstart goes head to head with his coach
Danny finds himself being stalked in ways he can’t understand. Why is he there?
A cultural story about keeping it real.
When is a gift not a gift? And has Karen already given it to Amanda? WINNER - Best Youth Actress
A simple study of the one of the 4000 native apiarian species.
Written & Directed by crawdaddy. So much fun.
Film Awards
2017 - We are pleased to announce that our short film:
The Golden Man-Child
has been chosen as an
“Official Selection”
of the
2017 Clean Shorts Film Festival
Choctaw, Oklahoma
About
When talking about Brian, words like rugged good looks, classically handsome, Film Making prodigy, Comic Genius don’t usually come to mind. He’s a husband & dad to four lovely and brave children, and prettiest girl he ever saw. Past projects include: Santa Claus in the Jones Pre-school Christmas Play, where he earned fame by eating the entire plate of cookies on stage. He is also known developing some of the more obscure features for the Notion Music composition program. And for more obscure features for the fuel systems of a well known fuel dispenser manufacturer. If you live in Central North Carolina he has probably fixed your computer. He has performed on stage with comedian Steve Lesser, TV News personality and comic genius Jennie Stencil, Brian O’ Sulivan the Singing Comedian, Julie Marchiano of Second City, AJ Schrader of Unstoppable Failure, and the Bob Beshere - all of whom sincerely wondered what choices they made to somehow find themselves there at that moment. He has supporting roles in the Jason Marc. Pierce comedy-horror Hell Phone and Baptized by Desire - a Graham Pritz-Bennett & Byron Lamarque film about about love, mistakes, and faith, currently in post-production. He is currently a graduate fellow, working on saving the himself from Skynet® and by extension everybody else. His favorite food is warm chocolate chip cookies.
We all know what happens when we tempt fate, but what happens when we Attempt Fate? A tiny spark of “What if?” and a roaring fire of “Lets see.” Over the last 10 years, our really-part-time team of family and the loveliest people in the world has put together a set of zany, incredulous, heart filled shorts. Family happens to be who we are so it also happens to fill what we make. Family entertainment. We really do hope you are entertained! We made this for you. Well no, we made it for us, to laugh while we made it, and to laugh while we remember as we watch. We sincerely hope that you’ll like it at least kinda as much as we do.
- Brian .
Blame Mel Brooks
An Explanatory Exculpatory Essay
When I was around 12 years old, my family got one of the first used VCR’s in Long Island. With it we had one movie, the title I don’t remember. Kids, around that time, to buy on tape, an actual movie on cost the same as my sister’s car payment. So for a long time just the one tape. Then one day my dad came home with a home tape with the words “History of the World, Part 1” written casually in ball point pen on the label. It was summer, and my dad worked a lot. It seems that the summer before, some Einstein had fired all of the guys and gals my dad supervised, not realizing, they were quite unique in their experience and qualifications and that left my dad very busy filling in, and me this summer, at home alone. A lot. In a new town. But we had that used VCR, with the pop up tape tray. One day after watching as much of the new Music Television channel that I could stand. I slid the tape in, pushed down on the tray and plopped on the couch with cookies and milk. And I laughed. And laughed. And laughed. I looked around the house almost embarrassed that this movie was so classy, yet so funny, so irreverent. I had never seen anything like it. And when it was done, I pressed rewind, waited the required 3 minutes, and pushed play again.
By the next few weeks, I had watched the movie so many times, I had most of History of the World, Part 1 perfectly memorized. I would then watch and say the lines in time. The scope. the timing, the setup, the punchlines, they hit me right were Mel had intended and I got hooked. Right now, If you say to me ”You.. are playing.. The Palace!” I will respond “The Main Room?” Later that year I can recall asking what that funny looking Caesar’s Palace they went to really was, and then breaking out into laughter once I got the pun. Genius!
The cast.. Gregory Hines! Madeline Kahn, Orson Welles! Dom DeLuise!! [Our next vhs movie was Cannon Ball run.. “Where’s he gonna sit!?!<smack>] Such beautiful characters and such irreverent honest humor and the layers upon layers of jokes and whimsy and Zaniness to boot! So, there… I blame a Mr. Vincent Samuels for my sense of humor, but thats another story. As for my compulsion to make something beautiful and zany… blame Mel Brooks.
Woah..What are you doing way down here!?
Go back up there and watch some movies
To Paraphrase Hemmingway’s saddest shortest story:
“For sale, one destiny, unused”. Attempting Fate.
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