Michael was recruited from Colossal Pictures to work as a visual effects camera assistant on the stop-motion feature film, James & the Giant Peach, joining the International Cinematographer’s Guild. He graduated to stage electrician and participated in the lighting of hundreds of national commercial spots, and later began his visual effects camera career at Colossal, serving as camera assistant and motion control operator. From there he found a position as a stage manager at Colossal Pictures, a commercial production studio. While earning his Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Production from San Francisco State University in 1994, Michael began work as a lighting and grip rental technician, learning the tools of the trade. Michael Hardwick – Director of Photography In addition, he is developing the sequels to Dreams Awake Portal 2012 and Finding Daylight, the other pieces to his “Awaken Trilogy.” Jerry also has several other feature film projects in development, with One Hand Clapping and The God Dilemma being at the top of his list. Dreams Awake is the first film completely written, shot and edited in the Mt. In 2007, after several years of development and many drafts later, Dreams Awake finally went into production. Thus, his seventeenth screenplay, Dreams Awake was born. This gave him quite an education into how the industry really works at the studio level, from the inside out.įinally, after being frustrated with how the traditional film development process worked, he decided to direct and produce one of his own screenplays. In addition, he spent several years at Sony Pictures Entertainment, working in a highly sensitive, often litigious financial department. Over the years he also worked on other filmmaker’s projects, learning the nuts and bolts of production, and working from production assistant to producer, as well as directing several shorts. However, after many of these projects never got into production or were never finished after going into production, he became wary of this world of development hell. In that same period several other spec scripts of his were also optioned. Over the following twenty-five years he was hired several times to develop and write other screenplays. After writing several spec screenplays in the early 80’s, Jerry was first hired professionally to write a screenplay in 1985. I have a strong feeling this is going to be a film standing apart from most others, in ways that I cannot quite communicate yet.Jerry Alden Deal – Writer, Director, Producerĭreams Awake is Jerry’s feature directorial debut, although he’s no neophyte to the filmmaking world. On the back burner for now.Īnd right now as I write this, I am in the throes of organizing, executing, and preparing a rough cut of “One Hand Clapping.” And has it been something! I have gone through so many ideas, feelings, thoughts, emotions, opinions, considerations, inspirations, conceptions, meditations, judgments, which have all excited me on many different levels. And then our current project, “One Hand Clapping,” came along, and I have yet to finish that doc. While doing this I felt I was really growing in my editorial skills, and actually expanding my abilities as an overall filmmaker. I was actually having more fun doing this, as I had no time pressure and I got to play with all kinds of images and musical pieces. Several years after that project I had been editing a documentary, on a subject that interested me greatly.
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