Rider Strong in scene with Guy

Yeah, what happened to that wicked-fast post-production pipeline that had us hitting benchmarks (First cut! Final cut! Color locked!) and expecting final delivery sometime a few months ago? Nothing! We did it! Whew.

But what followed immediately. . .

As star Rider Strong explains, “These movies are usually about somebody investigating something because they want to prove aliens exist. With my character [Eric Rainer], he’s literally writing his thesis on the fact that it’s all myth. But he’s forced into it and goes deeper and deeper against his will. It harks back to X-Files and I’m the ultimate skeptic. I feel most of these movies are about having to prove [UFOs exist], because this starts happening, he starts questioning his own sanity.”

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MANY THANKS to our fantastic crew: Mike Testin (DP), Louis Chernovsky (AC), Juan Nunez (Sound), Sara Glaser (AD), Pierre Drummond (Grip, PA & Behind the Scenes team), Chase Allen (Key Grip), Matthew Housley (Grip, PA, Still Photographer, Behind the Scenes team), Angus Hall (Grip, PA, Actor, Behind the Scenes team), Jennifer Bahr (Production Coordinator), Meadow Brown (Script Supervisor, Continuity), Rozita Tolouey (Wardrobe), Samantha Ward (Lead Makeup), Carlie Cadrecha (Hair Stylist), Jillian Bunting (Production Designer), Reed Johns (Art Director), Caitlin Bond Murray (Makeup), Jessica Monson Drossin (Set Photographer) and Michael Amper (Safety).

And to our stellar cast: Rider Strong, Danielle Keaton, Ezra Buzzington, Charley Rossman, Danica Stewart, Suzanne Ford, Maitland McConnell, Maria Olsen, Daniel Kirschner, Sally Berman, Time Winters, Bella DiFiore, Angus Hall and Rob King.

-KY

Darkening Sky's Charley Rossman plays Allen Ginsberg

Charley Rossman is playing Allen Ginsberg (Beat Poet) in the film, The Buffalo Son, premiering tonight at Laemelle Sunset 5 in Hollywood.

The Buffalo Son chronicles the adventures of Peter Apple, a teenage boy who awakes in the middle of an Arizona desert road with complete head trauma-induced amnesia regarding his past. Unable to remember any of his history, completely undocumented in databases, lacking a social security number and having no known family, the sweet, naive Peter gains relative national fame for his story and spontaneous poetry — but is eventually adopted as a prophet and “flawless judge of this World” by the strange beat poets and art fiends in his foster family’s neighborhood. Peter slowly morphs into a cocky, careless, rockstar-like hero while becoming a target of jealousy and hatred at his high school, subtly falling for one of his “follower’s” daughters, pit-falling into a world of murder and corruption and facing what could either be an onslaught of mystical happenings or a series of peculiar coincidences — constantly challenging Peter to question the roles he has been assigned. As his memory begins to return, insights change and characters morph in this colorful, funny and eerie take on the American dream.

Look for more pics next week!

Prepping the camera

Scripty and the Director

Our amazing lead, Rider Strong

Watching carefully...

Stop...in the name of love if you will.

Discussing the scene

Preparing sides

Our key makeup, Samantha

Getting the perfect angle

Danielle began her career at an early age, playing a lead role alongside John Rubenstein in the acclaimed production of the musical, Ragtime at the Shubert Theatre. Since then Danielle has amassed an impressive list of television credits, guest starring in many popular shows such as Without a Trace, Seventh Heaven, and American Dreams, as well as roles in such videos as Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s School Dance Party and rock band Blue October’s Into the Ocean.

Danielle has also worked with a number of talented actors and directors in films such as John Carpenter’s Village of the Damned starring the late Christopher Reeve, the indie film Traveler starring Bill Paxton and Mark Wahlberg, Puppet Masters alongside Cory Feldman and Beethoven’s 3^rd with Judge Reinhold. Danielle can also be seen in the films American Black Beauty and David Stanley’s Protecting the King, starring Tom Sizemore, in which she stars as the girlfriend of Elvis Presley’s stepbrother and bodyguard. Most recently, Danielle could be seen as Jo in the Long Beach Playhouse’s production of Little Women, and as Anne Frank at the California Theater in San Bernardino.

In addition to acting, Danielle is an avid songwriter, pianist, and is currently attending university studying screenwriting and directing.

A starring role in the Aaron Spelling pilot Home of the Brave, helped launch Danica’s busy career. Professional highlights have included contract roles on ABC’s General Hospital and NBC’s Passions in the role of Jessica Bennet. In addition, Danica has starred in several webisodes including Cyberpunx, Socially Awkward Guy and NBC’s first daytime hit web series Coastal Dreams. Currently in production, Camera Café is Danica’s latest web series.

Danica also has an impressive list of television credits including: Crossing Jordan, Thick and Thin, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Drake and Josh, Skin, CSI: Miami, and Oliver Beene. A recurring role in Quintuplets rounded out Danica’s guest starring television roles.

Film credits include Self Medicated, Last Run and Bottoms Up.

In her free time, Danica enjoys dancing, skating, biking, swimming, running and golf. During her time off from her busy work schedule, Danica returns to Washington for visits with her parents and older brother.

-KY

Sally Berman appeared most recently in Angels and Demons and Julia with Tilda Swinton. She also was cast in the award-winning short film Hardcore Action News.

Her work in television has included the delightfully quirky soap opera Passions. She is a member of Theatre West in Los Angeles where she has performed the roles of a prostitute in The Threepenny Opera and the abusive mother in Final Placement.

Ms. Berman has numerous commercial voiceover credits and sings professionally with a vocal quartet. As a violinist she graduated from The New England Conservatory of Music and has served as Assistant Principal Second Violinist of the Virginia Symphony and Concertmaster (Principal Violinist) for the Lyric Opera of Los Angeles. She has recorded music with Kirk Franklin, Tony Braxton, Raphael Saadiq and Teena Marie.

Ms Berman is originally from Atlanta, Georgia.