Making it in Hollywood

Low Budget filmmakers give pointers to FAU Film Productions

The L.A. filmmakers of Night of the Dog recently came to talk to FAU Film Productions about how they did their feature.

Ian Nelms, his brother Eshom Nelms, Jeremy Catalino, Peter Donovan, and Michael Burke showed up to FAU to talk to the club about working with a very low budget. "Our budget was about the same price of a 1996 used Honda Accord," Eshom Nelms claims.

The filmmakers also claimed that shooting outside a studio was often a fun challenge. "I had to hide behind a fence in my underwear before I jumped out to scream each of my lines," Donovan revealed. Since they shot guerrilla style, with no permits, they frequently ran up against the authorities.

"We often ran from the police and sometimes the same cop," Donavan says.

Their main advice to filmmakers was, "make a movie and work your ass off."

Production facts: Night of the Dogs cost $5,000 to make.

The actors were paid zero dollars.

One of the characters had to dry-hump the cameraman to get an important scene filmed.

It was shot on a digital Panasonic.

More info at: www.myspace.com/nightofthedog.

• Facebook Comments
• Site Comments

Be the first to comment on this article!

Add comment


I am not posting spam. I understand posting spam or other comments that are unrelated to this article will cause my comment to be flagged for deletion and possibly cause my IP address to be permanently banned from this server.

Enter the characters in the image above:

log out