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Hi Mr.Pyro this is Taylor and Jasira film majors at purchase college and we have recently discovered your body of work, currently working our way through the movies, so far we have rectuma, the god complex, the curse of queer wolf, rage of innocence we have a few questions for you. What were your original aspirations as a young film maker, and how did that change throughout the course of the films you produced and directed and are your proud of the body work you have made? Our second question is how has your Relationship with your recurring actors developed… Read more »
Hi! I was just wondering if you had any thoughts on the chance of My Mom’s a Werewolf getting any kind of HD restoration or special edition? I realize somebody else wound up directing that film, but you still wrote it, and I’d love to see a high quality scan of it with a commentary by you one day.
PIRRO REPLY: I have nothing to do with that film, so I couldn’t tell you.
Hey Mark-
Wondering if “Queerwolf” is your only super 8 movie? What kind of camera(s) did you use? Were sound cartridges still available in ’88?.Sounds sync. Or am I wrong, and it was all MOS? Was it shot on super 8 for cost reasons or asthetic reasons, or both? I gotta know what you know.
Thanks!<
Sorry to bother you again, but the SAG people say that if you go financial core and do a non-union film, they won’t help you if you are mistreated on set or don’t get paid. Is that valid?
Have you seen SAG’s page on financial core? It says things like “If you go fi-core, You can’t put you’re a SAG member on your pictures, headshots, resumes, etc.” Is that a true statement? How can they do that?<
Dear Mark,
How do you apply for Financial Core? I need to do this within the next week. I am working on a non-union project that will eventually turn union. But when I called SAG they bithced at me. So, now I’m sick of their harrashing and negativity and want to have the freedom to do any prject I choose. What are my steps?
Thanks,
Please email me at rickogrey12@gmail.com
Richard
Hi Mark, many years ago I saw “Curse of the Queerwolf” and I loved it, but forgot the title and would later mistakenly search for a gay vampire film (it had lots of biting the neck). Finally, a friend told me that my films remind him of you and I looked at your website and discovered that it’s true. Where have you been all my life?! I am now in Toronto and I cannot find Rectuma for rent anywhere, but I won’t give up. I can’t believe that Blockbuster doesn’t have at least 100 copies on their shelves! They are… Read more »
Some Core people are being harrassed (literally) by SAG representatives to re-join the union. What action can be taken against these people? They have even taken steps to send lists of Core actors to the production companies in our area telling them not to hire us.
HI, I am financial core and getting letter threatening from SAG that the law has changed and that financial core does not apply to SAG anymore.any truth to the rumor.or is this just SAG’s way of bullying unsuspecting non member members?
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I am thinking about going financial core. How doing must actors list there unions on their resumes?
To The Good People At Pirromount:I just want thank you for ALL the great information re: Financial Core. I was recently on the set of feature film here in Philadelphia & the SAG“leaders” felt it necessary to ostracize the Fi-Core actors. This kind of behavior was not only highly unprofessional (especially while on set) but it was illegal. As you already know – we have a legal right to pursue non-union work w/out being threatened & intimidated. It was shocking & disappointing to see the negative approach that was being taken by the local SAG leadership. There was so much… Read more »
Is there someone at Rhino that we could contact to advocate the release of DRGS on DVD?
Hi Mark,
I am financial core. I’ve heard that if I don’t relinquish my fi-core status and go back to SAG before the end of the year that I won’t be let back into SAG. Does this mean SAG is taking away my ability to work as a SAG actor? Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Irene
Real nice! I found lots of interesting things here. I will bookmark!
I have seen at least one of your movies. It was pretty hilarious. Curse of the queerwolf. Great stuff. A few years ago. Maybe we can do a film together later. I have a new one coming out after this one and several straight to dvd scripts.
Check out my movie Hotel Horrible. It may be weird enough for you. Do a search. My videos are on uncut and youtube and livevideo and sumo and google. Do you want to distribute it? Shoot the second segment? Finance the second segment?
Thanks,
Rich
info@hotelhorrible.com
I like your movies, and I REALLY appreciate the fact that you do them on a shoestring budget. But, do you pay the bills with what you make from making movies? I mean (and I do NOT mean this in an insulting way)–do you have a day job?
What do you think of the works of Fred Olen Ray and Jim Wynorski?
I just wanted to say Thank You for posting the information about working SAG and Non-SAG members on a film. I have a small production company as an off shoot of a modeling company I own and have concerned myself about this with a recent contact from a SAG member. Your posting of the information and brining it to the public attention is great. Its a shame we can’t just all work together and make films period!
I love your films. I would love to be a part of one, even if it is a small role. What do you need from me in order to make this happen?
Where can I send my picture and resume?
Oh, yes, of course. There are crane shots in the teaser, and they look pretty good. I should’ve made that connection on my own.
So far, what little you have of God Complex looks really professional. We seem to have climbed the mental ladder a few rungs since Adam came on the scene.<
I see you’ve improvised a camera stabilizer for God Complex. Is that essentially a monopod with an L-bracket? I ask because I’ve made a simple stabilizer from a Sunpak monopod, with a 2.5 lb exercise weight at the bottom, and a one-foot length of pre-perforated steel sandwiched between the camera & the mounting screw. I have stacks of steel washers attached to the ends of the steel beam. At just about exactly the center of mass there’s a tightener for the monopod’s telescoping section, which serves as a very handy grip. it has a good moments of inertia in three… Read more »
I am doing a low budget with SAG Fi-Core actors. DO you know whether there is any need to contact SAG about this or can the Fi-core actors just do a regular non-union actor deal memo?
When you loop dialogue in post-production, do you have anything resembling a recording studio with controlled acoustics? I ask because [1]- I’ve seen a few no-budget indies that looped in bedrooms, etc., with pretty good results, and [2]- you’re probably a bedroom kind of guy.
Will NUDIST COLONY OF THE DEAD ever be published on DVD?
By the way: DEATHROW GAMESHOW was released in germany with english language! [Title: DEATH GAME]
Looking for more movie investors. Our team of global professionals have received a flood of scripts from around the world ranging in production costs from US $1 million to US $90 million. What are your thoughts.
I read that you own 80% of polish vampire and only 40% of your other films. Who owns the the remaining 20%-60%of your movies? Do you give your cast and crew a cut? Do your distributors take a percentage? Thanks.
When you documented the Rectuma premier, did you use the same mini-DV camera that you used to shoot the feature?
Now that you are using an HD camera, will you still need to use “pirrovision” like with your other vids?<
Where can I get my sitcoms and books onto the screen?
Whats is wrong with the mosquito version. I just got it from ebay, did I get cheated?
ps. love all of your movies
I am trying to purchase a dvd of RECTUMA. Can you tell me where I can go to buy this? Thank you.
Regarding Joe’s question:
Hey Mark, do you mean true HD or HDV? Like the Panasonic AG-HVX200? Please tell me what the heck I could get my hands on for 1K. Any recommendations helpful. Keep on, keepin’ on.
Speaking of the HD cameras, can you still produce marketable work with consumer DV cameras available, or do I need to take the plunge and buy an HD?
How can we get the soundtrack to “A Polish Vampire”? Especially the title theme, I need that for a Halloween compilation! If not on CD, you should make some mp3’s, that would be sweet.
I just saw an ad for your submissive Jesus product on Youtube and am very upset. Isn’t it bad enough that you make insulting movies without having to move into the rhelm of religious novelty items? Do you honestly believe that creating a toy ridiculing Jesus is productive?
I saw two videos of your Stan Freberg puppet videos, “C’est Si Bon” and “Yellow Rose of Texas.” I cracked up so hard. I had just got the TIP OF THE FREBERG CD yesterday, and so my day was GREAT. Who did those videos? Whoever it is, I’m waiting to see his treatment on “Sh-Boom” or “The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise.” I would crack up at how they would depict how fast the banjo player would play and the smoke rising from the analog recording equipment. That would be so funny.
Is it still possible to get a Nudist Colony of the Dead poster? My husband was actually in the film and I’d like to surprise him w/a Christmas gift of the poster all framed and everything
I think it should be stressed that the producers of South Park don’t tell such irreverent stories just to aquire fame. They are filmmakers with a message to tell, and that message has to do with the terminal neuroses wallowed in by most of the adult population of the world.
I see you’ve purchased HD cameras for the upcoming God-flick. Are those off-the-shelf prosumer models? Thanks.
we are now scheduled for fliming across the nation summer of 2007. our funding is needed. what we thought we had for funding no longer exists. can you guide us?
Hi Mark, I’m just curious whether shooting on DV harms the marketability of your films. For example, Polish Vampire is a classic but in part because it was super-8. Are you positive that you will never use film again while on your own money?
Spike Lee’s Bamboozled was shot on DV but he took the extra step of transferring the whole thing to film. How can a feature sell without that extra step?
I looked you up on imdb.com and I see you have only made seven features. How many films did you make before you could quit your day job and live off of your film profits? Thanks Mark.
I have been trying to find Buford’s Beach Bunnies for about 5 years or more now. I saw it for the first time when I was in college, i think on “skinomax”. Bravo My roomate and I would stay up, get drunk, and laugh our asses off. When I came home I would rent it, and showed all my friends. In my little hamlet of Pennsylvania everyone under 30 probably saw it once. I wish I would have bought a copy, any idea where I can find one?
I just saw the world premier of Rectuma over on YouTube. What’s the title of that music you laid in? Thanks.
You have inspired me. i stumbled upon “Nudist Colony of the Dead” at a local ma and pops rental place going out of busness, so i bought it along with about 300 of the last of their films but your title stuck out the most (except for the porn but granny gang bang 3 and stuff him full of pipe sticks out a little more) but anyway i watched your movie every night while i slept recorded your songs onto a tape and play them in my car. i am a huge fan. i was in a huge slump in… Read more »
I love you. I really mean it. You’re so amazing. You don’t even have to answer this.
I’m trying to track down a VERY good friend of mine, Greg Gross. Could you help me? I noticed he has written a lot of music for you. Thanks, Sally
Have you ever thought about teaching a low budget filmmaking class? Maybe put it on dvd? Or writing a how-to book.<
any plans for putting death row game show on DVD?