Tag Archives: indie film

help Orphaned find a home

So it looks like this just might happen. My third feature film, Orphaned, just started its grassroots fund raising campaign on Kickstarter.
Here’s the URL:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnwyost/orphaned
Kickstarter is a website where filmmakers, artists, and musicians can go to propose projects to potential investors. Except the investors aren’t some rich bankers…they’re YOU. The site is set up to [...]

Orphaned

So it’s here…the new teaser trailer to my third feature film: Orphaned
we also have a site on this website:
http://nameinuse.com/orphaned/
Right now we’re still in the planning stages, casting, and script writing, BUT I felt it was time to show some folks what I’m thinking. A quiet, loud, quiet film with lots of brotherly love and violence. [...]

I’m not me, feasting on pixels

Lots going on at the start of this new school semester/year. I recently sent out a ton of new work to folks around the globe and New York…we’ll see what happens…
Check back here for the newest work as I make it.
In December I helped out a new friend, Zak Mulligan, with his first feature film [...]

A New Year: Us Ones In Between

So with a new year comes a new body of work. (Soon to be up on this site, and in shows.) I have spent a good two weeks rounding up work from 2009 and getting it ready to send out. I came across the short film “Us Ones In Between” (A Sunset Rubdown lyric) that [...]

Two years…Two films.

So the other day I stopped and realized that in two years or so…I’ve finished two feature films. Crazy. I think back to when I moved up from NYC in 2006; penniless, full of ideas, but I hadn’t made a single thing since Maine Workshops and “Fog”. A good friend of mine, Daniel Swinton, offered [...]

Maine International Film Festival; Nostalgia

I recently sent a few films out to festivals to give them a second chance. Motion Portrait Film was one of them. As you can see from another post…it’s very much still alive in everything I do as I head into graduate school. BUT, this was different. I got accepted to a film festival. It’s [...]