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Thanks to everyone who came out to the packed theater at Connecticut College for our screening of A Wheel out of Kilter last night! We were joined by Kyle Clark (composer and assistant editor) for an hour long Q&A after the film. Faculty, staff, students, friends, family, and even the President of the College and her husband were in attendance. It was an awesome night - thanks for coming out and making last night such a meaningful experience.
Only year ago, A Wheel out of Kilter premiered at its first film festival, the Princeton Independent Film Festival. As fate would have it, today Princeton announced that Wheel's prequel, Deadpoint, was accepted! The film will screen on September 30, 2016. We are thrilled to be returning to Princeton with this film. Thanks, Sara, and the rest of the Prindiefest team!  My newest film is complete! This weekend I submitted the final cut of A Peculiar Thud to Damnationland. What a joy it has been making this film together. Our editor, Brian Newell, did an absolutely outstanding job cutting the film. It could not have been done without him, and it would not have been as good a film without him. Thanks to my friend, Brian! Meanwhile, Damnationland's promotion work is getting up and running. Check out the pictures, interviews, etc on their site. Damnationland. Below, I'm wielding the machete from the film amidst my fellow Damnationland filmmakers.  And here are a few stills from the film-
The UFVA conference in Vegas was a blast! The A Wheel out of Kilter screening was excellent and I was proud to be a part of an awesome panel with rockstars like Jon Cavallero from Bates College, David Coon from University of Washington Tacoma, and Lauren DeCarvalho from University of Arkansas. You can read more about it on Kiltered Production's blog.  I'm in Las Vegas for the 2016 University Film and Video Association conference where I'll be meeting other filmmakers and academics, networking with other production companies, and sharing my work with their colleagues and friends from across the country. I'm here with my Kiltered Productions partner, Matt Herbertz, and we're going to be busy this week!
Today, Aug 1, I'll be screening A Wheel out of Kilter in Screening 3A at 2:30pm. On Aug 2, I'll be delivering my paper, "Teaching Racist, Sexist Student Films in the Production Classroom: Fighting Fire With Fire" in Panel 5G at 9:30am. On Aug 3, we will be screening A Man of God in Screening 9B at 9:30am. On Aug 4, Matt will be delivering his paper, "Modern Rural Horror and Male Anxiety: The Fear of Losing Power" in Panel 13G at 9:30am. At about 4:30am on Sunday July 17, we wrapped shooting A Peculiar Thud! It was an incredible experience and yielded footage that has left me breathless. Matt Herbertz led a cinematography team to reproduce the feel of darkness on a moonlit night - and the fear that someone could be lurking in any of the shadows. Malcolm Mills' performance as the lead was absolutely outstanding. The entire production was a well-oiled and efficient machine. I've been making films for 20 years now; this was likely the best production I've ever run.  Clockwise from left: Lindsay Sirois (Sound), Gregg Hammond (Catering), RJ Wilson (Grip, Damnationland Producer), Malcolm Mills (lead actor), Tom Digges (Assistant Camera), Kyle Clark (Gaffer), Matt Herbertz (Director of Photography, Producer), Ross Morin (Writer, Director, Producer), Stuart Vyse (Assistant Director) A few pictures below will give you a taste of what the film will look and feel like - they are just a mere hint of the actual quality of the cinematography. They have not been color corrected or touched up but I'm including them so that you can get as excited as we all are. I'm so proud of my team.
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www.facebook.com/KilteredProductions We won the Bronze Award at the Spotlight Horror Film Awards! Thanks to Eric and everyone at Spotlight!  And as part of our new Kiltered Productions, we are proud to be launching the official page for our film, A Peculiar Thud! This site is where you can get even more information and updates on the status of the film - there's a lot happening, so check it out!
I am thrilled to announce my new partnership with my collaborator and dear friend, Matthew Herbertz, as we launch our new filmmaking company, Kiltered Productions!
Our four films will have the moniker of Kiltered Productions as will all our future films. We expect we'll form an LLC within the year. We're very excited about this "teaming up" as it marks both of our first real production company venture. It's been a dream of ours since we were kids to be filmmakers and have our works seen around the world. We are now seeing that dream come true. Check out the new site here! A Peculiar Thud is moving rapidly forward! We're sending out the casting call this weekend and hope to begin going through online submissions next week. The film starts shooting in one month! We're excited to announce our crew: Writer/Director/Producer - Ross Morin Director of Photography/Producer - Matthew Herbertz Photography Team - Tom Digges, Ryan Wilson, Kyle Clark Sound - Lindsay Sirois Assistant Director - Stuart Vyse Unit Production Manager - Gregg Hammond So excited to be back collaborating with Matt, Ryan, Kyle and Tom. Here's hoping we see the success of our past three films-  We did it!! The Kickstarter fundraising campaign for A Peculiar Thud is a success! Thanks to all who have donated! More updates here. We are now heading towards our Stretch Goal and beyond. Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1747744099/a-peculiar-thud  The Kickstarter for A Peculiar Thud has launched!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1747744099/a-peculiar-thud We're trying to raise $3,000 with a stretch goal of $4,000 - please check it out and support the film! A Wheel out of Kilter is an official selection of the Little Rock Picture Show and will be screening in Arkansas this weekend! Thanks, Justin and the rest of LRPS!  Things are getting exciting around here! My new film, under the working title of A PECULIAR THUD is heading rapidly through the preproduction phase. Today we secured the location, locked the crew, and finished the Kickstarter fundraising page!
Deadpoint, my latest collaboration with Matthew Herbertz, is nearly complete! We started writing the film together a year ago, he shot it in the fall, and I've been editing it all winter. We're in the final stages of scoring the film with composer Kyle Clark. The website for Deadpoint will launch this summer.
A Wheel out of Kilter has been selected to screen at the University Film and Video Association conference in August in Las Vegas! Matt and I will see you there!  A Wheel out of Kilter was just nominated for Best Maine Film at the Emerge Film Festival! Check out the other nominees here: http://emergefilmfestival.org/news/emerge-film-festival-announces-2016-effy-award-nominations. Thanks Emerge!
A Wheel out of Kilter has won an award at the amazing Horror Hotel International Horror Film Festival and Convention! We won in the Suspense/Thriller category - congrats to my team and thanks to Kristina and her crew at the Horror Hotel! The film will be screening on June 11, 2016 at 8:30.  A Wheel out of Kilter is going international! Our film is an official selection of the Unrestricted View Film Festival in London. Thanks, James and the rest of your team at UVFF!  A Man of God has just been accepted to two festivals - one in Indiana, the other in the Ukraine! I edited and exec produced the film last year on my sabbatical and loved every minute of it. This is a really good film - so glad to see it playing at its fourth festival overseas! Congrats to writer/director, Matt Herbertz!
A Wheel out of Kilter is an official selection of the Emerge Film Festival in Maine! I was at Emerge last year and it was an absolutely outstanding festival. I'm looking forward to going back in April. More updates to come. Thanks, Emerge!  A Wheel out of Kilter has won the Sir Edmund Hillary award in the feature film competition at the Mountain Film Festival! Thanks Mountain Film Festival! 
A Man of God has been accepted to the Green Mountain Film Festival in Vermont and the River Bend Film Festival in Indiana! This film is really picking up some traction.
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