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REAL LIFE-stories from Feature Workshops, with actors/writers Santa Fe; TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/reallife/162159330

Rick's Canoe (a comedy shot in Santa Fe, NM, ©2005). TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/rickscanoe

THE HIGDEN MAN (70 min., ©2004) shot in 1 1/ 2 days, on-location, Heber Springs, AR, for $39 budget: the 3rd/final 'Steve Gillard TRILOGY' feature (begun with CHETZEMOKA'S CURSE, & RELEASE THE HEAD).

AMERICAN ORPHEUS (84 min., ©1992, shot in Port Townsend, WA (w/Debra Daubner, Katrina Eggert Blair, Jan Burr, Jasmine & Aaron Carver, Tom Taylor, Debi Hinton), +Curtis Imrie & Willie Boy Walker.

BLUES FOR THE AVATAR, shot in Port Townsend, WA (73 min., ©1995), was the inaugural Feature Workshops production. See FULL MOVIE: https://vimeo.com/423780852

RELEASE THE HEAD (88 min. ©2004, with John Barnum, Steve Gillard & Sue Gillard (Dogme #10), Katrina (Eggert) Blair, MUSIC by Marc Gizzi, Marlon Schmidt, Robert Force, Jabez Richard & Silas Holm.

Since my Chetzemoka's Curse-Dogme #10 (©2000) is heading to NYC premiere (March, '24), I'll now run my series of "Port Townsend, WA" movies, starting with this, and work back to 'American Orpheus,'92

PROSPECTS (72 MIN., B&W, ©2010), an Indie Western by Curtis Imrie & Rick Schmidt, shot on-location, Little Menokin, Colorado. (Read "Thoughts on PROSPECTS" by Carolyn Zaremba, The 5th Wall, etc.)

THE FIFTH WALL, (89 min., ©2000) A sexy screwball comedy by Rick Schmidt & Willie Boy Walker. Scroll down for trailer: <https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thefifthwall/160800038>). Great Xmas flick!

A Mini-Doc/video essay about my 1983 feature EMERALD CITIES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghyt1xp9pj4

A MAN, A WOMAN, AND A KILLER, SHOWBOAT 1988, EMERALD CITIES (The Trilogy): https://vimeo.com/ondemand/manwomankiller https://vimeo.com/ondemand/showboat1988 https://vimeo.com/ondemand/emeraldcitieshd

movie #1: MORGAN'S CAKE

Real Life Story #8. After my 8-day cross-country hitchhike trip, and marriage falling apart, my story "Joe's Sandwiches" shows how the world is always ready to teach us a lesson, among the miracles.

Real Life Story #7: Transmutating from a metal-casting sculptor to "filmmaker" (a bright-lights/scary-tech video camera operator/later editor of plastic strips (1970-71).

Real-Life Stories #6. From fry-Cook to taking art classes at CCA, Oakland, CA (1964), and almost dropping out there too. (See: "The Funny Sticks," etc.) .

Real-Life Story #5. Bowling with father (1955).

Real-Life Story #4––BLACK SAVIOR (1955).

Real-Life Stories #3––born "breech," cherries OD, my 4-tine garden fork, Cowlick, etc. (age 1-9).

Real-Life Story #2 ("Winning a Panda @Riverview Amusement Park (Chicago, 1955).

BLUE TOILET FIRE (1955)

THE GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN (Part 7-Wrap up from Queen Gertrude)

THE GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN (Part 6)

THE GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN (Part 5)

THE GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN (Part 4)

THE GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN (Part 3). Queen Gertrude's nuclear-war talk coming up (someone's gotta talk about it!).

THE GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN (Part 2)

THE GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN (Part 1).

And so, another publishing miracle fell in my lap. Kinkos was about to get rich off my over-positive book-copies production.

I guess I saw no advantage in quitting. And how else would I spend my days?

Like a condemned man, penning his memoirs while awaiting the guillotine.

“But there is considerably more that needs to be accomplished.”

Not Really Writing a Book, But Maybe Finally Learning How.

MY BOOK DEAL How a C- English Student Wrote a Filmmaking Book that Helped Launch Kevin Smith & Vin Diesel

RED CONVERTIBLE, DEAD MEAT.

Roast Beef, Burning.

THE BIG RIDE/TEMPTRESS

Tripping Businessman, & Flagstaff Flatfoot.

Stamped For Life

The Butcher of Sausalito

Hook, Line, and Stinker

SWITCHED BABIES

THE MAN WITH TWO WIVES

Secrets of Men & Women

My What-If book, & Hello!

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