Wednesday, February 19, 2020

David Yohe - Film








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David Yohe Showcases His Short "The Silver" 
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2019 HollyShorts Film Fest Highlighted Film Maker David Yohe


 
David Yohe - "The Silver"
 

Film Director David Yohe entered his short film in the Sci-Fi category titled “The Silver.” A menacing looking rattle snake was featured throughout the film and when asked about it Yohe laughs, “First of all I hate snakes so I will not go near a snake. The funny thing is that we hired a wrangler because we shot in April. So all we thought, being in the middle of the desert, we better have a wrangler just in case. When we got there, he said ‘look man they’re still hibernating, they’re not going to be out.’ so he was there every day. Then one DP asked, ‘Do you have one?’ He said, ‘Yeah, I have a bunch at home.’ The DP asked ‘Can you bring one?’ Yohe continued, “So he brought it, he put it out. That was all staged.” As far as the snake, Yohe quips, “This one was good to go. He wanted to bite everybody. I was by the monitors. I was not by that snake. All of the DP’s and camera guys got off on it. They’re all just like junkies. So they are like two feet away and I’m like nope!”

      Now about the film. Yohe explains, “We wrote the feature (full length version) first and we were really trying to put it out. Then I realized the best way to do that is to write a new five page version which is condensed with all of the stuff that is going on inside of it and give you at type of look, feel and taste of what the film would be and a huge action sequence. Most short films take a ton of information and jam it into a short but I took the opposite. I took a sequence that gives you so much scope and it kept growing, growing, growing and your imagination runs off with everything else to hopefully incite the fact that we have a bigger version and get you excited about it. The process was to write a feature, then we went back and wrote a five pager and then said, ‘Let’s kick ass, let’s make a really awesome sequence with all of these in it.’ It’s not exactly from the movie but it feels like what the movie would feel like and hopefully we did that.”

David Yohe on the Red Carpet


      Is Yohe’s crew doing other film festivals? He says, “This is our tenth. We just got back from Romania, we went to TIFF, went to Scream Fest, we were in New York City Horror, Austin, Film Quest, so yeah. HollyShorts is a home for me. I started my career here in 2007. These guys are family and I couldn’t be more grateful to them. I know everyone has to earn their keep here but having everyone behind me has been a huge push for me in my career. I was the first Oscar qualifying short film here with “Descry.” Yohe will be shooting his first feature film in the country of Cyprus as he keeps the momentum of his film train rolling fast and forward


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Meryle Hathaway - Film






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Meryle Hathaway Showcases Her Short "It's Your Call" - Film


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2019 HollyShorts Film Fest Highlighted Film Maker 
Meryl Hathaway

    
Meryl Hathaway "It's Your Call"
 


    Film maker Meryl Hathaway’s HollyShorts entry was “It’s Your Call,” in the “A Touch Of Romance” category. The film was directed by Jacqule Phillips. It’s concept is the emotional roller coaster ride of an on-again, off-again long distance computer relationship where Hathaway was personally involved in real life. As she puts it, “So this couldn’t have been a more personal story. It started coming together in 2011 or so when I went through this type of experience where I had actually never done long distance before. I had always heard what everyone has said about it which was ‘good luck.’ Everyone says it doesn’t work.”


       Hathaway continues, “I went into it at the time thinking the best outcome possible and we’ll take it step by step and see what happens. In writing the story, it kind of came from a bigger story which was meant to be a feature which really was how I met my current partner after the story of this film takes place. So once I had broken up with the New York boyfriend and time goes on and then how I met my current partner that was all one huge story that was meant to be a bigger film. And really what happened, it was trying to figure out the crux of that story. What was the most poignant, funny and relatable moment in all of it that could be told in the framework of a short film. It came together sort of naturally when it was like this moment in my life and for anyone to hear and see on screen is not just relatable but its almost inspiring in its own way. A way I haven’t seen before.”

Meryle Hathaway on the Red Carpet
      Hathaway explains, “It’s something that ends. Its two people who love each other and made decisions that there might be resentment, bitterness or anger but the fact is when it comes down to it, they have this great report that two people get along who generally love each other. And to be able to end a relationship in a way where it is difficult and you’re not even in the same place, but you fall asleep together, that’s something people should see. For me it come together with difficulty because it was hard to write at times. At the same time it was sort of a celebration of this thing that I find is so unique in my own history that I feel very grateful that man can still be in my life and I can champion him and where he is and he can champion me from a distance because it was a long relationship.”

      Hathaway concludes, “So it came from this very personal place and looking at the general consensus of what a long distance relationship is or expected to be and kind of throwing my own twist into it.”


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Monday, February 17, 2020

Precious Ochu Birthday Wish






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   21st Birthday Wish to Precious Ochu
In Abuja, Nigeria, Afrika 

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Happy 21st Birthday Precious Ochu
Precious Ochu
       Every now and then it is apropos to acknowledge special people in our lives. I'm sending out a 21st birthday wish February 18. 2020 to Ms. Precious Ochu in Abuja, Nigeria, Afrika. She is a recent graduate of Abuja University Gwagwaladal. I hope you enjoy your day and look forward to better things to come with goals accomplished. 

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