Great ACTION Videos

"Third Wheel" is an award-winning short film that tells the story of Charlie Watts. He  is cheating on his supportive wife of seven years. The subject of his affair is the beautiful Lindsey Cavanaugh. He plans to get rid of his wife, but Lindsey has other plans. And so begins an adventuresome round of plot twists that build to a surprise-filled climax. Very well made, good video look and feel, and it even has a great line or two - "why did you hit him so hard?"  ""Cause I am a hitman." Yes it is a BIG download but it is definitely worth watching.

According to AtomFilms, Rockfish is the biggest, baddest, most intense action short you'll see this summer. On a far-off planet, an industrial worker tries to catch an alien and gets taken on the ride of his (and your) life. You must see it to believe it. Check it out at AtomFilms.

"Solve for X" is a 35mm black & white action movie that follows the story of a few days in the life of a hitman. This 11 minute film contains adult language, themes and violence.  Scott Spears, Emmy Award winner & contributor to this site, is the Director of Photography.  The piece was written & directed by John Whitney and stars Rafael Rosado, a professional animator, director of several animated shows like Men In Black:The Series & Ghostbusters. The film is available for download in WINDOWS MEDIA, QUICKTIME, and REAL PLAYER from http://www.scottspears.net

Here are two cool new films from Atom Films
		Pink Five Strikes Back Like, this film totally scored the Audience Choice Award at this year's Star Wars Fan Film Awards.
		Street of Pain Dodgeball is the latest craze among middle-aged adults. We're pretty sure this John Woo-style film had a little something to do with that.

This is truly incredible. Batman: Dead End is an extremely impressive bit of work that features Batman fighting his expected nemesis The Joker, as well as some of the most frightening leading monsters and creatures of the cinema. This 8 minute QuickTime movie is available in 2 versions for download - the incredible full screen version (160 MB) or the lighter small screen version (48 MB). You should also download the Making of the Batman: Dead End. Warning - this is very comic book violent. For more fan films, check our Fan Film page and FanFilms.com

Pow, punch, kick, smash and oomph. Watch what happens when a sleazy Internet merchant tries to rip off our heroine. Great editing and cinematography. Hosted at StudentFilms.com, Mahri's Revenge was directed, shot, edit and produced by Steven Reedy and stars Jennifer Hansen as the pissed off Mahri. The tracking scene across the roof following the fight inside is BRILLIANT! While you are at StudentFilms.com, check out some of the other great videos and short films. This is a great site.

Like rock and roll, cool skydiving footage and great editing? Check out the latest from Scott Snyder. "Beam Me Up Scotty" features some wonderful aerial footage cut to the Ramone's Spiderman theme song. Also check out "I want to be sedated" with music by the Offspring covering the classic Ramones song.

Do you like science fiction, battles and weird alien beings?  Check out "New World" According to producer Peter John Ross. 
it's all about a time on Earth after aliens have invaded, a group of young upstarts begin to fight back against the insect-like Invaders. Click here to see the trailer or watch the entire 10 online chapters. It's sort of  like the old science fiction serials of the 1930's, but with home made 
special video FX of the 2000's. The last two chapters are online  at Brownfish.com, MovieFlix and at Underground Film.
"New World" was shot with a Canon GL1 Mini DV, edited with Adobe Premiere 5.1c, and composited with Adobe After Effects 4.1. 3D Animation by the Triple By-pass Cafe, 3D models by Dual P. Davidson, wireframe models and animation done in Caligari True 
Space 4.3, texture maps were done in Photoshop and added to models in 3D Studio Max. 3D Matte Paintings done by Don Drennan in Lightwave 7.0

Special - The Making of "New World"

This is not your dad's Roller Derby. Check out the teaser for the upcoming "Texas Roller Girls" movie hosted at MP4.com. Pretty darn wild and a cool music track. Nice video and great editing. I'm ready to strap on my skates and start racing around in circles.

Are you ready for the real March Madness? Easter is coming and its a shoot-out between Jesus and recently deceased. Check out Air Jesus,  the overall audience favorite Extreme Film in the 2002 Viewer's Choice competition on chrysler.com/filmfest.  Also check out the other Extreme Films finalists. Produced during the 2002 Extreme Filmmaking Competition in Cannes, France, these ten films prove that the filmmakers can work—and excel—under pressure. Riding on talent and adrenaline, each director had just ten days to script, cast, shoot, edit and premiere a short film featuring a new Chrysler car. Winner Jeff Wadlow's film, Manual Labor, went on to win Best Domestic Short Film at the Wine Country Film Festival in 2002.

Oh boy, two new movies from BMW Films! BMW Films is a commercial site that sponsors famous filmmakers and directors to create exciting short films that push the envelope of creativity and style. One thing in common, somewhere in them, a BMW is showing off. Check off the two new flicks on the site  Winner of the Los Angels International Short Film Festival for Best Action Short and directed by John Woo, Hostage stars Clive Owen, Maury Chaykin and Kathryn Morris. Ticker was produced by the Ridley brothers, Scott and Tony, and was directed by Joe Carnahan. Again featuring Clive Owen as the BMW driver, is also stars Don Cheadle and F. Murray Abraham. To best appreciate these, you might want to download the 80MB files and watch them as they stream off your hard drive.

Do you like westerns? Do you like bad Japanese dubbed films? Do you like Sci-Fi? Who cares....  For a great adventure in cool video making, you got to check out High Tech Noon. This is brilliant. Great concept, wonderful production values and it will make you laugh. It will also make you wonder, "how did they do that?". This is the broadband version. For less bandwidth intensive versions, and other great short funny films, make sure you visit the  Pirate Videos web site.

Are you an activist? Into changing the world? Check out the Phone Bashing web site - these guys hate cell phones and the people who yak on them in public spaces. They began by dressing up inside of a stolen mobile phone suit, and then grabbing phones from people using them. And then they recorded the thefts on tape. Check it out... 

Do you worship Detroit Iron? Check out Dialing the Devil, an incredible short film written and directed by Toon Aerts. This is brilliant. We were blown away - not only is the film great, but the entire web site design and concept around it is incredible as well. Includes adult language and themes.  For you producers, the site includes a discussion of how the film was made and how they achieved its unique look.

Flat is a great, award-winning dramatic film. Only five minutes in length, I am sure you will be entertained and surprised.  You will find it hosted at the SanityCheck web site that also includes a bevy of other short videos produced by the same team. Some are standalone shorts, others are part of a series. Many of these were produced for a local community TV station. Check it out. In addition to being an especially well designed web site, Sanity Check offers access to music and other content.

From the international community, we found this short film on the BritShorts web site. You will like this well produced and edited drama, "A Shot in the Dark." A famous actress and her helpless infant are being stalked...will the stalker get his shot?.

We again visit the French web site www.avidz.com to see the cool "BlockBuster the Movie". Two guys, one girl and a whole lot of action - this short by Jacob Jocko shows what can be done on a limited budget and lot of imagination. In addition, the web site design is very interesting and provides a wide variety of streaming and download formats to watch the flick.

Powder Keg is the latest hot video from BMW Films. If you haven't seen any of these BMW films, you may want  download the proprietary BMW Film Player (4.5 MB for PCs and 7.0 MB for Macs) to get optimal performance. Best viewed with a fast (300 Kbps) connection. .Running time: 8 minutes, 15 seconds.
Parents strongly cautioned. Contains violence and offensive language.

Star, BMW Films, Short Comedy

This is the Madonna clip you have been hearing about. Now watch it. The Driver faces perhaps his most perplexing challenge: coming face-to-face with a hugely talented and successful rock star. But beneath her beauty lies a problem – she always gets what she wants. Guy Ritchie directs Clive Owen and a surprise guest star (guess who) in a battle of power against power. Running time: 6 minutes, 56 seconds.

Check out 405 - This is one of the most well-known of all Internet Videos. Combining live action with animation and special effects, this short documents what can happen when you get caught in a traffic jam near LAX. Created to help get the filmmakers a deal in Hollywood, the web site includes details of how the film was made as well as other juicy tidbits. If you are an aspiring filmmaker, this is a have to visit web site.