Well, come Wednesday night, I might be getting my head shaved again since it apparently all of my hair grew back within a week and a half. We had maybe ten minutes of American Nightmare 3D edited together from what we had shot from those few days. Abby, who played Rebecca Lange in Traumatic Possession 3D: The Tape, plays my drug dealer in the film; she had all of her scenes shot in a few hours as we shot all of her lines and skipped all mine. With the exception of our last scene together in the film.
With the birth of my son, Alex, it gave me a new purpose to making movies. It gave me a reason to follow my passion so that I can spend as many moments with him as possible. For me, working retail, has been hell. I enjoy the company of all of my co-workers, but this life is NOT for me. For the past few months up until my little man was born, I had been contacting casting agents about possibly auditioning and writing and directing. And if you know me, you know that I was going after one of the greats which I did not get. It's not the end of the world, it is just simply not my time for me and the monster to meet face to face.
Being a father since he was born two weeks ago has been just amazing. My fiancee and I have been just on our toes with feedings and diaper changes and sleep! Oh, God, the sleep. My basic logic is that if I can get our son to sleep, I let my fiancee get a nap while I watch over him. As a matter of fact, I am doing that right now as I type this very blog out. That first night when he arrived was a way of us to get to know each other. He would cry out at any little thing and I was swoop him up and walk around with him. He would calm and look at me and try to figure who I am as I looked down upon him and see one of the two people that means more than anything to me.
But, as I stated above with me pursuing casting agents for movies, I was off work on vacation for eleven days. From Saturday when the labor started, to this past Wednesday, I was off work and not a care in the world was to be had. I know the trade off from working a day job is being on a set for possibly four months is worth it in my honest opinion. As much as it takes away in that one chunk, it's more worth it than being stuck at a day job that I can't tolerate any more.
And being a businessman, I have taken an interest into buying some licenses to some Bruno Mattei films and the works of the Filipino actress Yvette Yzon. For most who are unaware, Yvette worked with Bruno in his final years before his death in 2007. Two of the films that she did were just released here in the U.S; Island of the Living Dead and Zombies: The Beginning. The studio that owns most of Bruno's later films, all though I wished that they owned S.S. Girls as I have a nice 35mm print of the film which would be great for a Blu-ray release, also has one of the last English language films that Yvette did in 2010 called My Lai Four.
I've explained with Yvette that if I can get the rights, it'll be once we can get the Director's Cut of Traumatic Possession 3D: The Tape, Into the Madness: A Documentary, and American Nightmare 3D finished so we can license them out world wide. So, hopefully in 2016, we'll start rolling out home video releases to these Italian films.
And as far as what one of our next movies will be ... I don't know ... I might just have a Crisis on my hands.
