The Buick Human Highlight Reel in partnership with the NCAA shines a light on former NCAA student-athletes who have given their all on the field and now find a way to give even more to the causes that matter most.

All the way from Chicago to center field in New York – Curtis Granderson is helping kids follow his path.

Director/Motion Graphics: Aric Avelino

Producer/Editor: John Stewart Muller

Cinematographer: Frederick Schroeder

The Buick Human Highlight Reel in partnership with the NCAA shines a light on former NCAA student-athletes who have given their all on the field and now find a way to give even more to the causes that matter most.

Former Air Force Academy basketball player Mick Ebeling’s selflessness and passion inspired Buick to tell the story of his Not Impossible Foundation, which uses technology to make the impossible happen.  See how they enabled a paralyzed graffiti artist to create again with the EyeWriter.

Director/Motion Graphics: Aric Avelino

Producers: Laura Boersma and John Stewart Muller

Cinematographer: Frederick Schroeder

Editor: John Stewart Muller

The Buick Human Highlight Reel in partnership with the NCAA shines a light on former NCAA student-athletes who have given their all on the field and now find a way to give even more to the causes that matter most.

Broadcaster and former North Carolina State women’s basketball player Debbie Antonelli has always been a go-getter. Inspired by her coach Kay Yow’s battle with breast cancer, as well as her own challenges with raising a special needs child, Debbie helped start the Kay Yow Cancer Fund to support scientific research focused on women’s cancers.

Director/Editor: John Stewart Muller

Producers: Laura Boersma and John Stewart Muller

Cinematographer: Frederick Schroeder

Motion Graphics: Aric Avelino

In this short film from director John Stewart Muller, Sarah (Leslie Andrews) and Matt (Kit Williamson) have a “unique” relationship. But when they throw a Halloween party, things take a turn for the worse.

Starring Leslie Andrews & Kit Williamson

Featuring Stephanie Sanditz as “Bloody Mary”

Photographed by Frederick Schroeder

Edited by Ben Waters & John Stewart Muller

Written by Leslie Andrews

Produced by Laura Boersma & John Stewart Muller

Directed by John Stewart Muller

The Buick Human Highlight Reel in partnership with the NCAA shines a light on former NCAA student-athletes who have given their all on the field and now find a way to give even more to the causes that matter most.

This episode features NFL Hall of Famer Alan Page, a graduate of Notre Dame. Quarterbacks, criminals, the justice system, and racial equality: Alan Page has tackled them all.

Director: John Stewart Muller

Producers: Laura Boersma and John Stewart Muller

Production Coordinator: Kirsten Noll

Cinematographer: Frederick Schroeder

Editor: Ben Waters

Motion Graphics: Aric Avelino

The Buick Human Highlight Reel in partnership with the NCAA shines a light on former NCAA student-athletes who have given their all on the field and now find a way to give even more to the causes that matter most.

This episode features NCAA All-American wrestler Hudson Taylor, a graduate of the University of Maryland. Currently a coach at Columbia University, Hudson is determined to take down homophobia in the sports community.

Director/Editor: John Stewart Muller

Producers: Laura Boersma and John Stewart Muller

Production Coordinator: Kirsten Noll

Cinematographer: Frederick Schroeder

Motion Graphics: Aric Avelino

The Buick Human Highlight Reel in partnership with the NCAA shines a light on former NCAA student-athletes who have given their all on the field and now find a way to give even more to the causes that matter most.

This episode features current Philadelphia Eagles Cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, a graduate of Cal Berkeley. On the field he stops players from reaching the goal. Off the field, he helps students reach theirs.

Director: Aric Avelino

Producers: Laura Boersma and John Stewart Muller

Production Coordinator:  Kirsten Noll

Cinematographer: Frederick Schroeder

Editor: Ben Waters

Motion Graphics: Aric Avelino and Julien Lormant

In this documentary, filmmakers Matt Leach and Sterlin Harjo explore the rare language of the Yuchi and the attempts being made to revive the ancient tongue. The film recently screened at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. as part of the program “Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film” which was a pre-summit event for the 2011 National Native Language Revitalization Summit. 

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Unemployed man Jimmy Washington is one of 8,000 remaining Cherokee speakers in the US. He talks to us about life on the streets of Tulsa. This special segment also includes the featured song “I See You” by Bullet Proof Tiger.

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A music video by Sterlin Harjo.

A music video by Sterlin Harjo.

A music video by Sterlin Harjo.

A documentary on graphic artist John D. Muller produced for the AIGA. John D. Muller has received international recognition for his graphic art, including exhibits in New York, Washington DC, Zurich, Tokyo, Kansas City and Los Angeles.

Check out some of his current work at m80art.com

Director: John Stewart Muller

Cinematographer: Frederick Schroeder

Editor:  Ben Waters

Titling:  Jeremy Shellhorn

Samantha Crain and The Midnight Shivers talk about their new album, SONGS IN THE NIGHT, and touring.

Director:  Sterlin Harjo

Check out this music video we created for DeVotchKa’s “All The Sand In All The Sea” off their album “100 Lovers”

Nick Urata, DeVochKa’s frontman, did the original score for our feature film Fling and the opening track from their new album was originally written for the alley love scene in Fling. It is aptly titled “The Alley”.

Director:  Laura Boersma

Producers: Laura Boersma and John Stewart Muller

If you want to be the woman the single men you know think of first, you’ve got to watch this video featuring timely advice from the world’s handsomest, most eligible single men.

Based off the classic 1970s self-help book, “Loving the Single Man” has been optioned for development by Vuguru.com, the multi-platform entertainment company founded by Michael Eisner. For more, check out lovingthesingleman.com

Starring:  Dan Gill, Stephanie Sanditz, Ellen Hollman, Jamey Peragine, Ben Waters, Mary Kay Riley, Natalie Pero, J.P. Roy, and Jonathan LaVallee

Director: John Stewart Muller

Cinematographer: Frederick Schroeder

Editor:  Ben Waters

Producer: Laura Boersma

A music video by Aric Avelino.

A music video by Aric Avelino.

A documentary directed by Sterlin Harjo.

A brief visit to the Pasadena Bunny Museum featuring an interview with proprietor Candace Frazee.

Directed by John Stewart Muller

Produced by Laura Boersma & Heather Downie

Photographed by Frederick Schroeder

Edited by Ben Waters

A music video by Sterlin Harjo.

In this short documentary, filmmakers Sterlin Harjo and Matt Leach accompany local Ben Collins to his favorite restaurant, El Rio Verde. When it comes to the burritos, there’s only one rule: the wetter, the better.

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Historical savant Lee Roy Chapman takes us on a tour of the forgotten histories of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Today’s episode: The White Dove Review. 

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A music video by Laura Boersma.

A documentary by Sterlin Harjo.

Directed by Tony Valenzuela

Produced by Laura Boersma

On September 19, 2006 Yahoo! Movies was the first site to release three short films directed by Toby Wilkins titled Tales from the Grudge with an introduction from one of the producers of The Grudge, Sam Raimi.  This series of shorts expands on the story of The Grudge curse.  The shorts also appeared on the film’s official site at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where fans who volunteer their mobile phone number will get surprise calls from Kayako or Toshio.  The films were also made available on other film and horror related web sites as part of a wide reaching and unique digital marketing strategy.

• Part 1, “Hotel” is the first in the series of shorts. It introduces Ross (played by Daniel Sykes) as he wakes up in a Tokyo hotel room and coughs up quantities of Kayako’s black hair. He wakes from this nightmare to the sound of the mobile phone and answers it. The caller is his girlfriend Abby (played by Stefanie Butler), who is safe at home in the US. Ross explains that his attempts to investigate the house and the woman with long black hair have led to a dead end. When the phone call ends, we stay with Ross as he takes a photo of himself with his mobile phone. He does not notice as Kayako passes by behind him at the precise moment he takes the shot. He then sends the picture to Abby. Ross then goes to brush his teeth and finds black hair in his toothbrush before being grabbed through the mirror by Kayako.

• Part 2, “School” is the second short film in which we follow the story of Abby as she ends the phone call from the first short. Abby then proceeds to call her friend, Brooke (played by Ginny Weirick), to ask about plans that evening. When the call ends, Abby receives a photo message from her boyfriend Ross (from the first short). When Abby looks closer at the image, she sees that Kayako is in the hotel room with Ross. Abby attempts to call her boyfriend and warn him, but she only hears Kayako and then it hangs up. Abby looks over at the girl that was sitting beside her to see Kayako.

• Part 3, “House” is the third short film that overlaps during the events in School. The film opens with Brooke (as introduced in the second short) receiving a phone call from Abby. As the call ends, Brooke agrees to play hide and seek with the child, Josh, whom she is babysitting and chooses a walk-in closet as her hiding place. Brooke soon finds herself trapped and is dragged violently into the underworld by Kayako. Josh then gets up and says “Come out, come out, wherever you are,” before Brooke’s cell phone begins ringing.

love. betrayal. sex. gossip. deception. and that’s just before third period. 

Senior year is a crazy time in anybody’s life – full of uncertainty – and Prom is supposed to be a night when dreams come true. But this year, at Edward Adams High School, there is a secret that threatens to unravel the institution forever.

Over the final two months of the year, high school sweethearts will fall apart, friends will be won and lost, hearts will be broken and mended; five girls will be nominated for Prom Queen, but only one of them will win. And on Prom Night, something terrible will happen.

Maybe this has happened to you… 

You wake up in a hotel room in Mexico, in a bathtub full of ice. A dull ache in your head gives way to a dim recollection of the night before. You discover a row of immaculate stitches where one of your kidneys used to be. But somehow this all feels eerily familiar.

You are the victim of Kidney Thieves, the award winning black comedy from director Toby Wilkins.

“…the best comedic acting I’ve seen in a while.” eFilmCritic.com

For more info visit stolenkidneys.com.

Directed by Toby Wilkins

Starring:
Ethan Embry
Paget Brewster
Paul F. Tompkins

“Staring at the Sun is so absorbing and consistently unsettling that my only complaint would be its paltry running time. It’s a great short, but would be an even better feature.” - Film Threat

“Hands down, the best shorts program I have ever screened at a film festival.” - Ain’t it Cool News (Re: Sundance Shorts Program)

“it gave me two near heart attacks… great stuff well done…” - Atom Films

Toby Wilkins’ award-winning short film Staring at the Sun tells the story of Clay Roberts, a Scottish expat, cautiously navigating his new life in America. Things take a turn for the unexpected when a fortune teller refuses to reveal her vision of his future. Clay becomes so obsessed with finding the truth that he unwittingly fulfills his fate.

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 as with eight sold out screenings. It has since screened at Sedona, Method Fest, Indianapolis, Maryland, O.C. Shorts Festival, Toronto’s World Wide Short Film Festival, L.A.’s HypeFest, New York’s VisionFest, the Tahoe/Reno festival, Palm Springs, San Diego, Chicago, the Eerie Horror Film Festival and Screamfest LA where the film was honored with the award for Best Horror Short.

Directed and Produced by Toby Wilkins
Starring Alec Newman
With Saxon Trainor, Nick Nordella and Darin Brooks, Randy Crowder, Dirk Etchison, Jocko Sims

Toby Wilkins’ Mouse Trap is a cautionary tale about the perils of sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong.

From Sam Raimi’s GhostHouse Pictures and director Toby Wilkins comes Devil’s Trade, an original internet series for FEARnet.

Four teenagers incur a streak of horrific events after buying into a supposed internet hoax. Devil’s Trade aims to be a grounded, suspenseful, and disturbing series that will make viewers fear the idea of shopping on the internet. Keeping in tone with films like The Ring, the series follows the journey of these teenagers as they attempt to rescue themselves by uncovering the mystery behind the curse without ever breaking the rules. Devil’s Trade delivers visceral scares on a believable level creating the atmosphere of a true story. Each episode, while moving the story forward, contains stomach-churning suspense and involves at least one jump scare or visceral and terrifying beat. In order to maintain a level of curiosity, each episode also plants an element of mystery that will be revealed in coming episodes.

A documentary by Aric Avelino.