Studio Berezin Film

A movie we shot during the 24 hour film race in San Francisco . Yes, the whole film was done in 24 hours from script to DVD! Go Rhobot Team, go! My role was an editor, Dave Cowl the director, and a bunch of other talented and dedicated crew members and actors made it all possible. We had lots of fun!

Check out the new movie by Movie Makers Unite : Cast: Shawn Flanagan Jr. (Mikey), Meghna David (Miss Patel), Khalid Khan (Raj), Jim Rogers (Mailman), Jessie Rodrigez (Cousin Patel) Director: Cheenu Krishnan, Assitant Director: P.V. Moorthi, Producers: Quanie Mitchell and P.V. Moorthi, Production Manager: Aniket Apte, Production Assitants: Bhavesh Mehtha and P Mahesh, Story and Script Writer: Quanie Mitchell, Camera Operators: Ray Raffa, Cheenu Krishnan, Aniket Apte, Gregori Niculitcheff, Boom Operator: Bhavesh Metha, Script Supervisor: Quanie Mitchell,  Video Documentary of the Production: Shawn Flanagan Sr., Gregori Niculitcheff, Jessie Rodrigez, Post production supervisor: Sergey Berezin, Editing: Sergey Berezin, Cheenu Krishnan, Music by: Marshall Watson. Special thanks to: Movie Makers Unite, Miracle Productions, Edwin Liu (for postman costume) www.meetup.com/moviemakersunite

Rhobot Films Presents: Dave Cowl has just released his new film “Beyond Words” – watch it on YouTube : The movie was screened on January 31, 2010 in San Francisco. Cast: Patrick Alan and Debora Gonçalves Written, directed and edited by Dave Cowl, Camera by Digant Kasundra, Tom Krymkowski and Dave Cowl, Sound by Marc Stayman and Alisha McCutcheon, Special Effects by Sergey Berezin.

I’m releasing today the director’s cut of my short movie “The Devil in the Detail”. View it here: The story is originally written by Alexey Berezin (my brother) in 2006, which in early 2009 I converted into a screenplay (big thanks to Michael Dougan for help and guidance!), and then produced, directed and edited over the next few months with the crew from Scary Cow Productions , and finally screened at Victoria Theatre in San Francisco at the Scary Cow Independent Film festival. Much credit goes to the actors – Jerome Shafer (David), Andrin Foster (Gaylord the Devil) and Karuna Tanahashi (Lili), as well as the excellent crew members: Talha Ahmed (location, 1st camera), Mark Lisaj (2nd camera), Dee Leitner (makeup), Terry VerHaar (lighting), Dan Patterson (grip), Dave Cowl (sound), Gina Richman (2nd editor), and Russell Blalack (sound conditioning). Many thanks go to Silicon Valley Studios for providing their studio space, and the Scary Cow Productions for h...

A previously unknown producer from Uruguay Fede Alvarez makes a 5 minute short called “Panic Attack” with awesome special effects on a shoestring budget, and gets a $30 million deal with Hollywood – read the story on Yahoo buzzlog . That is really amazing! And what’s most amazing to me is how much work he must have put into it. Of course, some SFX are a bit patchy, but for a small and (I’m guessing) volunteer crew that is a sign of a real passion. Now, here’s the video:

Now that I’ve completed my Producer Training at KMVT , I’m looking for a good topic to produce my own show. It has to be not-for-profit (-ish), light-hearted and dynamic. I love to shoot in the field and edit my stuff, so the studio talk show would be generously peppered with cut-aways, possibly special effects and cool music. Well, I’m still thinking… If anyone got any ideas, I’d love to hear those ( leave me a comment! ). Thanks!

See the full movie on Oct 4, 2009 in Victoria Theatre, San Francisco . Tickets are on sale – see you at the screening!