Byron A. Martin Producer Location: Canada Biography: Byron A. Martin is an award-winning producer that develops independent film, television and documentary projects. To date he has produced almost 100 hours of television, filming projects in fifteen countries. He has produced projects for Disney, Sony, Universal, Turner and Bell Media and managed productions for some of Hollywood’s leading produc...[Read More]
Location: USA Biography: I grew up in a small town near San Luis Obispo Ca. From a very young age, I started writing short stories and making horror movies with my friends (as many kids from the pre-iPhone generation). From day 1 all I have wanted to do was have fun and make something cool. Right out of school I became a touring bass player and radio DJ/producer. In 2009 I moved to Los Angeles. Sh...[Read More]
Dee McCullay Filmmaker, Writer, Artist Location: Belgium Biography: I was an 80’s horror kid, always renting up all the horror and cheese horror I could find and making horror movie props and wishing I could get into special makeup fx when I grew up. A love for horror has always been there, as I had always loved it. By the time I started my first scripted horror short, Fallacious, I was fully pre...[Read More]
Location: Sunshine Coast, Australia Biography: My name is Rob Stanley, I am based on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. I am an artist who specializes in all things dark and macabre. I have created many works from fine art to concept artworks, VFX, and advertising design for feature films and large corporates. The only formal training I have as an artist is a trade in signwriting and graphic design....[Read More]
There used to be a time when filmmakers were forced to flock to main cities, like Los Angeles, to pursue a career in showbusiness. Int the past, the West Coast held a majority of the key elements to a successful film industry. In the past couple decades, however, technology has moved the film industry out of Los Angeles and into the rest of the world. Not using tons of expensive celluloid film, ca...[Read More]
No matter what it is you decide to do with your life, be it filmmaking, sports, espionage, the greats all started somewhere. Even the greatest of greats start as wide-eyed novices, learning first hand the basic rules of their trade. As an artist, no one starts out as a master. The beginning of a career can be difficult, with a steep learning curve, but constant practice will no doubt shake off the...[Read More]
In the dark corner of a dark room sits a lonely girl in a lonely chair. Her fingers moving in a blur across a keyboard as she stares helplessly into the bright void of the computer screen in front of her. Violently she taps away at the keys, creating terrifying tales of grandeur and of modest frights. Anonymously she writes. For years she slaves away, tapping and creating, then destroying. Always ...[Read More]
It’s been a great start to Women in Horror Month, and we want to keep the love and respect going by featuring all women FearMakers this month. When we first began creating the WAIH community, we thought the indie horror scene was far from thriving. Boy were we wrong. The same goes for women in horror. At first glance women only seem to pop up in front of the camera, usually running, usually toples...[Read More]
How much of life happens by chance? No matter how much we plan towards something, life has this crazy way of making even the strangest of happenstances come to fruition. This week’s Featured FearMaker was looking for Pink Panther when she accidentally stumbled upon a little show called Alfred Hitchcock Presents. That seemingly unimpactful event changed Meosha Bean forever, leading her down a path ...[Read More]
The forest is cold and dark. Tall trees filter out most of the moonlight, leaving only large, dark shadowed figures hastily whipping around indistinguishably. There they stand, back to back in the dark, the weight of chainmail and heavy axes and swords beginning to weigh too much to stand, but the danger is still out there. While fighting to keep their eyes open, they listen intently for the foots...[Read More]
Nobody wants to be a filmmaker. Okay, maybe that’s not entirely true, there are millions of people who dream about being in the film industry. Perhaps a better statement would read, “Filmmakers don’t want to be filmmakers.” That doesn’t make much sense either, but it’s the truth. Of the millions of people who want to make films, there are only a few thousand who ever pick up a camera. Out of those...[Read More]
Sitting in a small dark room, not a terribly small room, but no larger than a roomy interrogation room, a man sits alone in a comfortable, pleather chair. His eyes are glued to the glow of the several screens in front of him, as the cold white luminance gazes back at him. He is editing. The painstaking hours are perhaps the most crucial to the filmmaking process, and there is, of course, a deadlin...[Read More]