We are so excited to have Daniel aboard. Read on to find out more about him:

“Chicago born, Daniel Kirschner has been acting most of his life in theater, stand up comedy, and improv. Since moving to LA, Dan’s making some headway into television, voice over, and film. His recent credits include, ‘Entourage’, ‘The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody’, and a recurring role on CBS’s ‘Close to Home’. Dan also supplied lots of voices for MTV’s ‘Invincible’ You can check his website at www.dankirschner.com”

Daniel Kirschner

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We are thrilled to have Rider Strong join our team as the Darkening Sky lead character. Rider not only brings his tremendous talent to the film, but also his years of experience and expertise in film and TV making.

Along with his brother, Rider recently wrote and directed his first short film, Irish Twins, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to play over 15 film festivals worldwide and garner many awards.

Rider is also a gifted poet. His poems have appeared in literary journals throughout the country, including “Curbside Review,” “The Chiron Review,” and “Poetry Motel.”

Graduating magna cum laude from Columbia University in 2004, Rider received his M.F.A. in Fiction and Literature from Bennington College in 2009.

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We had another good casting session today. All the actors we’ve met to date have been great. After all the meetings and auditions the past few weeks, we think we’ve  found one (if not both!) of  our leads!

We’ve also secured one of our key locations.

All in all, a very productive day.

-KY

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Victor attended a casting session on Thurs as I had a prior commitment. Some great readings from the actors and it looks like we may have one of our leads…

We’re pretty excited. Stay tuned. We have more sessions this week. Plus, more project announcements!

-KY

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We scouted locations on Friday. Some good leads and possibilities in suburbia LA. We’re hopeful one of the locations will pan out.

In the process of bringing on a location scout to help us secure our film locations. Know anyone in the LA area?

- KY

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Actors are amazing. All these words you slaved over,  edited, finessed and second-guessed suddenly come to life and — damn if it’s never how you pictured it!

It’s better! WAY better, and more engaging and I swear to God I’m always bummed when the scene ends! Seriously. I honestly want to know what happened next. But then the actor looks at me and I realize I was just watching an audition.

What a great lineup yesterday…our casting directors are impressing the hell out of us and I can’t wait for more. We’re getting great feedback on script reads and have lines on several very interesting names. More meetings/reads on Friday…

-VB

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Finally! Keeping things semi under wraps about the Darkening Sky project has been a bit maddening, but now we’re out of the closet and out into the world. And not a moment too soon; we shoot in August(!).

While researching Darkening Sky I went to Laughlin, NV for the UFO Conference and sat in on an experiencer meeting. It was amazing. I’m really looking forward to hearing from people who have experienced UFO or alien phenomena firsthand in our Testimonials section (coming soon — check back often or send us your email address for updates on this and other news as it develops).

That’s all for now…off to do thing number gazillion and three plus prep for a day of meetings with our casting directors tomorrow (and whoever they have lined up for us). I’ll report back on how things went.

-VB

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