Tag Archives: indie

Summer 2011…the summer of ups and downs

If you’ve been following this blog at all, or posts of mine on Facebook and Twitter, you’ll remember a period where I was giving my films away for free because of what I considered a breach of contract on the part of IndiePix…my former distributor. Well they called my bluff and terminated our agreement. I [...]

bad business…free film

So it’s now been almost two years since The Brave and the Kind was released to little fanfare on DVD by IndiePix.  It then went on to VOD and iTunes download, but with almost NO mention or promotion. If it wasn’t for a few FB posts by me…no one would even known it was released. [...]

Engram. First Contact.

Starting this month I will be co-directing and producing my fourth feature film with one of my oldest partners in crime, Jesse Borkowski. We need your help. Right now we are crowdsourcing emotions/memories in hopes of getting a wide survey of humanity and not just our own little corner of the world. Engram’s emotion/memory component [...]

Orphaned Teaser Trailer…

…post production begins! Now I disappear into a dark hole until March…I will come back with test screenings in March. Orphaned Teaser Trailer from John W. Yost on Vimeo.

Orphaned Behind the scenes: Day 11

Here we are with another installment of the Behind the Scenes of Orphaned. This week we have another quick 5X5 with bees, fire and severed heads. This was our day to get all of the shots done before we burned the place down. Looking back, we had more than a days worth of stuff to [...]

We’re Back! Orphaned Behind the scenes: Day 12

So we’re all done shooting and back for the edit. Stay tuned every week for a new post of pics, video, and updates. Most of the video will be in 5X5 format. That’s five, five second clips put together for a quick glimpse at the day’s shooting. This week we start backwards with a 5X7 [...]