BZD Films

This letter appeared in my mailbox last week:

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In other, completely unrelated news, Brian and I have been making a lot of progress on the BZD Films Trilogy, which we filmed in “the the ground floor area, club room, and laundry room on morning of Saturday January 9, 2010″!

We’re nearly finished with “Flu in the USSR” and hope to have it released by the end of the month.

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Surprisingly, we managed to write three short scripts, have 3 short pre-productions meetings and borrow, beg and steal (well, only figuratively steal) ourselves enough equipment and actors to make the trilogy with a skeleton cast and crew of 5 core members and 1 additional sound person (thanks Mikhail!!!!) to shoot the scripts.

Diligent Work Paid Off!

After a grueling 24 hour period with only 4 hours for sleep (that’s 20 hours of solid production), we finished out three scripts and actually came through the entire debacle unscathed by technical glitches or any other major hurdles.

Catherine’s Incredible Recovery

On a side note, exactly one month prior to the day we filmed this (1/9), Catherine was still unconscious in the ICU. Take that, adversity!

Herpenis Production Stills:

(This is a working title for the slapstick herpes commercial)

BZD Production Crew

“Herpenis” Infomercial Comedy (written by Cat RNBMX Armbruster, with Patrick Sutherland)

Russian H1N1 PSA Production Stills:

“Russian H1N1 PSA” Still  (written by Patrick Sutherland, with Cat RNBMX Armbruster)

DogHouse Production Stills:

“DogHouse” Production Still (written by Brian Z. Danin)

Alright, we know that we promised a final and ready-for-viewing cut of Alley Cats by the end of 2009. That, quite obviously has not occurred, and there are many reasons as to why. Here I will go over just a couple.
First, I would like to congratulate the fortunate Director, Cat RNBMX A. for defeating the motorized death-mobile that tried to prove it was stronger than a bicycle. If a violent run-in with a car isn’t a good reason for a major delay in finishing and distributing a film, then I suppose I don’t know what a good excuse would be.

(For posterity, here is a NEW trailer, which I hope stokes excitement.)

Furthermore, we had legitimate technical issues. I’m not the type to complain about computer issues publicly, but this was my first hard drive failure in my 10 years of film production, which is a pretty remarkable track record considering I have more than 10 drives, some of which have been clunking along for about the same amount of time I’ve been involved in this trade. The drive that died happened to be the drive I had just dedicated to the Alley Cats production, and we were lucky that we didn’t lose our irreplaceable and very difficult to attain RED One footage. The other footage we lost was easily re-imported from the original HDV tapes, and the only thing we lost was our fun sound effects we used for the trailer. However, both aforementioned recoveries have severely damaged the projects already feeble time-line.

That said, we still plan to finish the film by some undisclosed future date. Until then, we do have a few exciting developments coming forward (just read the later posted material on this site for more info on the BZD Films exciting, thrilling, and at times unbelievable progress towards a revolutionary and overly-wordy future …)

Teaser Trailer for Alley Cats

Alley Cats is a gender bender film, where Dylan (formerly Courtney, and played by Hepcat Beth) battles the evils of Bart (played by Blacki) in this epic comedy. The expected release date of the film is December 2009

A film by Cat R.N.B.M.X. Armbruster, produced by Brian Danin and BZD Films

March For Health Care!

Brian Danin and Cat R.N.B.M.X. Armbruster went to the
streets of downtown Atlanta to cover Sunday’s Zombie March for
Healthcare. The dead have risen from their graves to send a message to
President Obama: Zombies are people too! They want health care,
brains, education, brains, public transit, brains, and they won’t stop
rising from the dead until they get what they deserve!