Apollo has just been posted onto vimeo. 
The 5-minute film follows Dee as she comes home to her New York apartment to find a drunk fire fighter with a knife in his hand and her dog, Apollo, bleeding on the floor. 
It is begins with an evocative opening shot, followed by a hypnotic sequence in a car. 
It is a compelling work – acting and technically solid. It’s well worth your time!
Tag Archives: Megan Hill
Bad Side Movie – The Shoot
The Bad Side film short was shot last night, everything in 5 hours. Mike Deminico (Director) and Adam Holz (DOP) – and Joe Schiffer (AD) at the start – worked through the shot list like machines – some 50 shots in all – an impressive feat indeed.
Adam and Mike shoot opening scene
Gardiner Comfort (Derek) and Megan Hill (Dee) worked through the scene again and again,
delivered on all of the fighting and yelling, through every shot – mediums, close-ups, point of views – with a professional focus, getting closer and closer to that feeling of loss and anger. 
Biba struggled in her role as a badly wounded serval, wanting to either get up or go to sleep, whichever wasn’t needed. Micaela Martegani graciously took on the role of the doorman (woman) at the last minute. 
She was precise in her delivery and the jacket was a perfect fit. (Thanks, David.) I helped too. I drove. 
It was a nice car, a Mercedes C250 RWD, but the traffic was terrible – due to the on-going blackout and cleanup efforts in downtown Manhattan – and I missed the final set of shots. 
It was an interesting experience for me in the end, allowing others to take over my ideas, seeing the characters brought out, the framing choices made. It was not exactly as I envisioned it, but there was a moment listening to a scene, Dee yelling, that it felt like something really had come to life. Post-production is next.
My Bad Side Movie: Rehearsal
We just had the first rehearsal for our short film, Dee, based on the novel, My Bad Side. The actors are excellent. Megan Hill is Dee with Gardiner Comfort is Derek, while David DiGregorio will play the doorman. Biba decided not to rehearse for her role of Apollo.
Ready for her close up
Megan and Gardiner work very well together; it is something to see actors give life to characters, not exactly what you anticipated and something more as well. 
Mike Deminico directs the production with Adam Holz on camera. There will be a lot of handheld work and a lot of movement. It might be black and white; that hasn’t been decided. But there will be close ups of high heels on the pavement and a struggle for the knife.
Dee towers over Derek
The shoot is on Wednesday. It doesn’t seem real. I wonder if I should have left Dee alone on the page.