The short film Apollo is going up on Vimeo!
We’ve divided the film into three Acts to preserve as much quality as possible. All three Acts will be uploaded over the next couple of days and will be available to watch for free via this website and Vimeo.
Check out the Short Films page to learn more about Apollo, and if you would like to support the filmmakers, DVDs are still for sale through this link. Enjoy Act 1!
Promotional video shot for DubFix on April 30th, 2011 @ Remington’s Downtown in Springfield, MO.
Shot by Bryan Manning and Brook Linder.
Cameras – 2 Canon EOS Rebel T2i
Lenses – Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Edited on Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
Springfield’s own SATO (Springfield and the Ozarks) 48 hour film competition held their awards ceremony at the Gillioz last week on Cino de Mayo! The New Stepdad took home THREE awards including Best DIrecting, Art Direction, and Audience Favorite.
In other news, one of the filmmakers in the team responsible for The New Stepdad was kicked out of the ceremony shorty after he accepted the award for Art Direction. It was his birthday and he was wearing a wig. There were several glass bottles heard rolling on the floor during awkward moments in the evening’s events that included a high school dance squad’s routine and a weird, trippy rock band trio. Loud, obnoxious cheering and drunken acceptance speech insights also debuted during the awards. Carver M. School a.k.a. Carver Middle School made itself known and least forgotten.
Apollo was one of the first and largest productions A5films has produced. Created as a senior thesis project at Missouri State University for the Electronic Arts program, the forty-minute short film explored themes of isolation, martial stagnation, and dreams all within a futuristic setting. Check out the trailer below…
A science-fiction short of stale love in a forgotten city where the sun is lost behind the clouds of pollution.
Apollo Sylvan, fixed within his memories, searches for sunrise in an abandoned theater
as his wife, Diana, trades herself for a chance to escape.
Apollo Sylvan – Kenny Kalinowski
Diana Sylvan – Jonna Kae Volz
Hannis Match – Nathan Shleton
Helias – Sayward Ferguson
Writer / Director – Bryan Manning
Executive Producer – Diana Botsford
Producer – Caleb Copeland
Director of Photography – Clayton Mason
Visual Effects – Blaine Morehead
Sound Design / Original Music – Jeffrey Brown
Production Design – Jessica Brothers
***Apollo is now available to view online! The entire short has been uploaded in three acts on Vimeo and embedded below. If you would like to support the filmmakers and gain access to a behind the scenes featurette you can buy the DVD through this link.
