Pixel News

New Website!

2007-08-01T20:41:00.000-07:00

We've been working hard on a new broadcast series and we've done a total redesign on the website to match. Check out www.captain-pixel.com to see the new design and to learn more about our new series Geektastic!

Email Problems, MySpace and a little more....

2007-05-31T18:50:00.000-07:00

OK, so we disocvered an issue with the emial link here on the site that goes back to our service provider. Until the issue is worked out please contact us over at our all new MySpace site here:

www.myspace.com/captainpixel

We have pictures, videos, and more recent blog posts there. We may eventually move everything over there as much as I hate working with the clunky Myspace interface. Other than that we are still sending "A Cheaper Way to Go" to festivals and we have another short doc in the works as well as a television series pitch coming together. More when we are allowed to talk about it!

Nashville Film Festival, Doc Channel, and more....

2007-05-01T21:21:00.000-07:00

I know these updates should come more often and I fully plan to make that happen. We had a fantastic screening at The Nashville Film Festival! Our newest short film, A Cheaper Way to Go played to a near sold out crowd. WE will have pics up soon. Suzie nad I met Rob Thomas as he was at th festival screenign his new documentary film and I had a great time chatting with Craig Brewer, director of "Hustle and Flow" and "Black Snake Moan".

If you're interested I wrote a full festival recount for the Documentary Channel website. You can read htat here:

http://www.documentarychannel.com/main/content/view/124/1/

We are still working hard on our television series pitches, more on that really soon....

A Cheaper Way to Go still on the Go!

2007-04-09T21:16:00.000-07:00

It's been way too long since we updated, but our newest short film is really keeping us busy! A Cheaper Way to Go is officially playing the Nashville Film Festival! This is a big deal because this festival is now one of the top 20 in the country! We are playing at 2 pm Sunday the 22nd. Head on over to their website at www.nashvillefilmfestival.org to see the schedule and get tickets.

We have a number of other projects in process now that we can't discuss yet but look for updates soon!

A Cheaper Way to Go in MS

2007-02-22T09:05:00.000-08:00

We jsut returned from Mississippi where we attended the Magnolia Film Festival! Our latest short film, A Cheaper Way to Go had a fantastic screening at the fest. While there we also shot a video blog for The Documentary Channel that'll be available at their website as soon as we can get it editied. We also met up with Jay Edwards the producer and editor of Aqua teen Hunger Force. He took a few minutes to discuss all the Aqua Teen happenings as well as what's up with his solo project, Stomp! Shout! Scream! a feature film of the late 60's B movie variety that's hilarious. Look for the interview to appear at www.mainia.com as soon as I Suzie gets it transcribed for me.

We have some big news on the way about some television prokects we've been working on. We don't want to jinx it by announcing too early so keep checking back! On that front we have some video posted from one of the series we are pitching. To see a few choice scenes from Geek Nation head on over to www.geeknationtv.com!

More soon....

A Cheaper Way to Go on the road!

2006-11-14T11:13:00.000-08:00

A Cheaper Way to Go, our latest short film, had a great screening at the Indie Memphis Film Festival back in October. We've submitted to several other festivals so we hope to have the film out playing several times between January and March. The film was picked up for one major festival at the screening but it's a little to soon to announce details. we'll post that asap.

We are working hard on our new TV series pitch "Geek Nation" with producer Jeff Krulik. We have hammered out the writen pitch and hired hosts so we are now filmming a demo reel to go out to networks along with the written pitch. We should have more for you on that shortly including some video!

Lots of projects in the works

2006-06-14T08:51:00.000-07:00

A Cheaper Way to Go is still slowly pushing toward completition. We've also started accepting headshots for an upcoming TV pitch. Finally we were pitched a treatment for a short film that sounds like it'll be great. That treatment is in the script writing phase as we speak. Also, we are gearing up for a full day of independent filmmaker workshops as part of the Hypericon Sci-Fi Convention on June 24rd, 24th, and 25th. We have indie filmmakers coming from Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia to be on panels and participate in workshops for the three day weekend. To see all the programming go here:

http://www.hypericon.info/programming.php

We can sleep when we're dead.

One last thing, for those who may not have checked it out yet we have set up a PayPal system to make it easier to purchase your own copy of Fans and Freaks! Just click the store button on the left.

More soon....

We're Back!

2006-05-31T12:03:00.000-07:00

For some reason blogger thought we were spam and locked the blog for a while. Well, we finally got reviewed and cleared so we're back in business. A Cheaper Way to Go is still in post. We've been working on music and researching new data to add to the film. Hopefully we are on teh downside of the mountain with this short as we have a new narrative short gearing up for shooting in a couple of months. We'll post more as we get it.

Next up for us is an appearance in our own back yard. We'll be running the film track at the Hypericon Convention happening in Nashville on the weekend of June 23rd. You can get more information about the con at www. hypericon.info

More soon...

Cheaper Way to Go in Post

2006-03-23T11:09:00.000-08:00

Post production of the film is nearly complete. We have a final cut that runs 13 minutes 46 seconds. We haven't added music, done color correction, or tweaked the audio yet but the film is fully assembled. We're hoping to dub off a screener for the musicians to preview to help inspire them for the bed music that we hope to record over the next couple of weeks. If everything continues moving along as it has been we should complete the movie within a month or so. We'll try and get some images up for you to see shortly....

Cheaper Way to Go Still Going....

2006-03-16T06:02:00.000-08:00

Well our work on our latest film "A Cheaper Way to Go" is still moving forward. Shooting is finished and post production is moving forward. The initial plan was for the film to be 10 minutes long. It looks like now it may be slightly longer, maybe in the 15 minute neighborhood. Music for the film is also progressing with a theme song and some bed music written and in the rehearsal stage by the band. Hopefully we'll get at least the theme song recorded within the next three weeks.

Our previous documentary films have all been shot in standard 4 : 3 aspect ratio. We decided for this film to move to 16 : 9. In the beginning that was a total nightmare for post production. There was a lengthy (at least it seemed lengthy at the time) process to getting the editing hardware and software to properly see the widescreen format. But now that it's all working properly I don't regret the move to widescreen. So far, the film looks great.

New Film From Captain Pixel Productions

2006-03-15T08:07:00.000-08:00

Captain Pixel has begun work on a new short film titled "A Cheaper Way to Go". The film is a short documentary about the new wholesale funeral supply business popping up in the Middle Tennessee area. You can step into a store not much different than any other department store and buy a casket or other funeral merchandise for yourself or a loved one up to 60% cheaper than making the same purchase through a regular funeral home. Needless to say this type of business hasn't gone over well with traditional funeral homes, and they have influence on state and even federal government. "A Cheaper Way to Go" however, focuses more on a single store and the man who runs it and the stores impact on the strip mall it is now a part of. We'll have more information soon...