FilmRazor LLC, is an award-winning production company with operations in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.
The company has seen significant festival recognition for narrative short films and screenplays. And their most recent short film, The Situation, was sold and is now distributed by Shorts International and currently airing on DirecTV and AT&T U-verse. FilmRazor also produces high-end video and national commercials for clients such as Sony PlayStation, Comcast Cable Communications, Comcast Spotlight, Spectrum Reach, and more.
FilmRazor LLC is currently seeking funding for the feature film, PINCH.
Dieter Dengler was a German-born United States Navy aviator during the Vietnam War. He was one of two survivors out of seven prisoners of war who escaped from a prison camp in Laos. He was rescued after 23 days on the run following six months of torture and imprisonment and was the first captured U.S. airman to escape enemy captivity during the Vietnam war.
The company was forged when a studio was created in the back building of a rented house in Mill Valley, California. This house was owned by Dieter’s son. Werner Herzog, a famous film Director, made a documentary about Dieter’s story, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and used the house as a backdrop. Later he made a movie of Dieter’s story called “Rescue Dawn” starring Christian Bale.
The front door to the house instantly stood out. On each side of the door are half circle windows. Engraved in ornate frosted lettering are the words “Good” on one side and “Things” on the other. We soon learned that Dieter himself built the house and specifically designed this door so that every time he walked through it he would be walking through “Good Things.”
After this man was tortured and suffered beyond comprehension, he vowed to have only good things come and go from his life. A truly inspiring story that made all of us at FilmRazor adopt “Good Things” as our mantra in life and work forever.
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
Chris Del Sordo, Director/Writer/Producer/Partner Gary Palmer, Writer/Producer/Partner Joseph Anselmo, Executive Producer Cliff Traiman, Director of Photography Peter Hathaway (Consultant)
A distraught man struggles to overcome a personal tragedy, an unexpected twist of fate changes everything.
Mark Deering (Russell Shealy) is a man who has it all… married to his high school sweetheart, has great friends, and loves his job saving lives as an EMT. But Mark’s world will come crashing down when his wife, Jennifer Deering (Stephanie Pearson), is senselessly murdered in a small-time robbery. His best friend Craig (Brent Roberts) and his wife Vanessa (Tia Streaty) are helpless in easing his pain. Mark’s world will once again turn upside down when a random encounter will alter his life forever.
A scheme gone horribly wrong leads three criminals to find themselves in a desperate predicament.
Sold and distributed by Shorts International and currently airing on DirecTV and AT&T U-verse.
Camera: Modified Canon 7D. Altered to respond only to infrared light. The infrared effect in conjunction with a Lensbaby Composer at a fairly open aperture makes for ground-breaking creative imagery.