Today I’ve released the fourth short film I directed “The Landlord.”

“The Landlord” is a film noir style film about a broken radiator. Jimmy (Derek Minter) and Christine (Joy Tweedie) are living a great life in their new apartment, except their radiator keeps breaking. Tony (Loren Bryant), the landlord must keep coming over to fix that darn contraption. Jimmy begins to suspect foul play when the radiator continues to break, and Tony begins to spend time in the apartment doing other things.

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More of my thoughts (with spoilers) after the jump:

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Today I’m releasing to the public for free viewing my third short film “Laid Off.”  One thing about this short film ended up being it’s timeliness. We broke the story in early September 2008. I handed in my first draft of the story literally the morning the sub-prime mortgage crash started started kicking up. I don’t think we were trying to predict anything about the financial world at the the time, (at least not consciously) but it definitely ended up being a relevant story, especially in Michigan where we were filming.

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“Art Sale” was the film that I made with my family. My dad was my Director of Photography. My brother, aunt and uncle served as our production assistant and extras. It was shot in my Aunt’s art gallery. It remains one of my personal favorites. It’s short, to the point and lots of fun.

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