"The Stakes" Wins Best Editing and More!

"The Stakes" is officially an award winning film, taking "Best Editing" in the Thriller category at the 2012 St. Louis Filmmaker's Showcase.

Despite not winning "Best Director" or "Best Short Film," I was more than happy to accept this award being as that it was the one I wanted more than anything.

The awards ceremony, held at Blueberry Hill in University City, MO, was the grand finale of the entire festival and a fitting end to a night that saw the official premiere of "The Stakes" in front of a packed house at the historic Tivoli theatre.

As I sat in the crowd with my family, friends and crew, I went through a roller coaster of emotions that started out as nervousness (for hoe the film would perform) and ended with relief (that it had succeeded).

 The crowd reacted with every twist and turn. Gasping with shock at moments of intesity and hanging on by the edge of their seats in the film's final gripping moments.

Later that night, we honored once more by Cinema St. Louis when they officially invited our short film to be screened at the 2012 St. Louis International Film Festival in November.

Once again the film will play at the Tivoli Theatre, but this time it will be shown with a slew of films from around the world. Last year's Int'l Film Fest saw the premier of "the Artist," which of course went on to win the Academy Award for "Best Picture." While I hope "The Stakes" is honored with such notable company this year, I expect that it wont be headed to Los Angeles any time soon. 

My ultimate goal for the film is to mainly hit a couple other egional film fests and then make its way online for everyone to finally see. It was a wonderful experience to be a part of and I much desire/look forward to making another short film very soon.

Let's just hope it doesnt take another year.

Thanks for listening,

-P

"The Stakes" Premieres TONIGHT!!

Tonight is the NIGHT! (is the night).

After six loooong months in post-production, not to mention almost a year in conception,"The Stakes" (My FIRST major short film) will be seen for the first time ever TONIGHT!

I was told late last night that capacity is at 75%, so the walk up ticket sales should pretty much SOLD OUT before 7pm.

If you have not done so, please purchase you tickets in advance at:

SLFS "Fatal Call" - Thursday, July 12th 7PM

"The Stakes" will show before the Feature Presentation of Jack Snyder's "Fatal Call," a movie that I not only worked on, but also made the trailer for.

Make sure to get there EARLY for seats are LIMITED!

Here is the info:

THE STAKES / FATAL CALL
Thursday, July 12th The Tivoli Theatre
(6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO)
7pm, Tickets - $12

I hope to see you guys there!

-P

2 Days Until the Premiere of "The Stakes"

Last week, the University of Missouri - St. Louis released another article detailing the production of "The Stakes" and highlighting its premiere at The Tivoli Theatre in St. Louis this Thursday night.

The article interviews Producer, Joshua McNew and Writer, Jack Snyder about the inception of the film and how our team came about making it a reality.

"The film is the culmination of hard work by UMSL students and professionals, like Chris Benson, who owns the St. Louis-based production company Lamplight Films. He was the director of photography on the film and tasked with making it look like a high-quality movie."

You can read the full article HERE: Students pull out all stops to make ‘The Stakes’

-P

New White Elephant Logo Premieres with "The Stakes"!

Some of you may or may not know this... But for all of my official film work (projects that I conceived, shot and/or helped create) have been flown under the banner of "White Elephant."

"White Elephant" is the name of my official film production company. It is a name I became attached to about 18 months ago, prior to the release of my short silent film, "HOME." That was the first film project of mine to use the moniker and I have since used it on all other projects that I believed fit the criteria.

With the "The Stakes" officially premiering next week on July 12th, I saw fit to update the "White Elephant" logo and turned to my good friend Will Massanet of Steryo Type Clothing to help modernize the brand. And after much debate between a handful of very cool new choices, I settled on the logo that I felt had the most potential and not only modernized the brand, but also made it memorable. 

Behold and feast your eyes on the new face of "White Elephant" Films.

-P

Vice Vega LIVE on TV!

My boys in Vice Vega were just LIVE on Fox 2 News in St. Louis, MO playing their all-iPad rendition of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe!"

Hopefully we will have a video to post real soon!

Congrats to the guys and make sure you check out all of their videos HERE and on YouTube!

-P

Update on Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 1:06PM by Patrick

HERE IT IS!!