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Issue #91
by L. Swift and Jeff McQ
Jordan Robertson
The Easy
Film Connection mentor Kevin Sharpley
“While I was [in school], I really wanted to do real work, so after my first couple of months I got a gig to do a music video. Low budget, maybe seven grand or five grand or something like that. I hired a producer, I just wanted to direct. I hired a whole team. No one did what they were supposed to do, and I ended up doing so many things. The editors that I had they tried to squeeze more money out of me because they had a little more knowledge than me. I’d only been in film school for a couple months. It was just not a good situation.
“My next project, I really pulled my britches up and produced, directed it, sold it…From that point after I produced that second project, I just said, ‘Look, if I can produce a project, let me just start my own production company.’ That’s when…I formed my company to be able to work in that type of environment.”
CHATTING ABOUT ONE OF HIS PET PROJECTS:
“I’ve always been a big believer in storytelling across multiple media platforms, being able to tell the story in time and space. You can tell a story in two minutes, you can tell a story in five minutes, 10, 15 a half an hour, 10 hours or 12 hours which would be a television show—but you can also tell it in the written word. You can tell the story auditorily. You can tell it just visually with a comic book. I’ve always been a big believer in this. We formulated a project to showcase this ability. That project is called The Beach Chronicles. It’s one of- now my company’s bigger projects. It was a small little tiny, baby project and it just exploded.
“That one I wrote as a novel first. My creative director did these animated graphic novels vignettes…We put four of them together, entered them in film festivals, they got picked. That short got passed around to a bunch of celebrities, next thing you know we had all these celebrities on board…We set about actualizing those pieces and they kind of happened organically…David Lynch has his non-profit organization, so the music faction of his non-profit organization had a radio show, [and] they asked us to make a show…We did six episodes. In those, we have everyone from Tommy Flanagan from Sons of Anarchy, Nancy Sinatra, Jimmy Jean-Louis from Heroes…Then the decision was made to do the comic books…so now we’re working with the comic book company and we debuted the comic at Florida Supercon…The list goes on.”
ON THE INDUSTRY EXPOSURE HE’S ABLE TO GIVE HIS STUDENTS:
Film Connection apprentice Brian Kennedy
with Jimmy Jean-Louis of Heroes
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