Creative Differences
CURRENT PROJECTS
"HOW WE DO" EPISODE 2 Now Playing
Premiere: Chain Film Fest 8/9/22, Recipient: Original Ideas Award
WINNER: Best Sketch, Dark Comedy FF, WINNER: Original Ideas Award, Chain FF NYC, WINNER: Best Proof of Concept, Austin Comedy FF, WINNER: BEST DIRECTOR (Dark Comedy), NY Actor & Director Awards, BEST EDITING: Night of Comedy Shorts, Milan Italy
FINALIST: NY International Film Awards, FINALIST: Independent Shorts Awards, LA
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Shockfest, Poor Life Choices, Portland, & Houston Comedy Festivals.
"HOW WE DO" TELEPLAY PILOT (Summer '21):
BEST CAST ENSEMBLE - Houston Comedy FF
WINNER, Best Cast Ensemble, Houston Comedy Film Festival, WINNER, Best Web Series/TV Pilot, Toronto Independent FF of Cift, FINALIST, Reno Comedy Film Festival, FINALIST, Best Series Pilot, New York Int'l Film Awards, SELECTION, ATL Comedy Awards
Summer '20 COVID Short Film, A weed-buy farce.
10 Festival selections, 2 Wins, 3 Nominations
Stars Kevin Iso & Kareem Green now seen on SHOWTIME's "Flatbush Misdemeanors"
WINNER, Best Director, Toronto Couch Film Festival, WINNER, Top Shorts Film Festival, NOMINATED, Best Actor - Kevin Iso, Portland Comedy Film Festival, NOMINATED, Best Cast, Toronto Couch Film Festival, NOMINATED, Best Comedy, ATL Comedy Awards SPECIAL FEATURE, Queens Underground Film Festival
SELECTIONS: NY Shorts International Film Festival, Global Shorts 2020, Independent Shorts Awards, Chain FF NYC
Comedy/Novelty category
"Evil Been Nestin'"
(in Your Large Intestine)
finalist
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"LOOSE CONTROL"
A snazzy NYC production hub, idea bank and "defibrillation facility" for creatives, Serious Vein's wide purview is rooted in excellence and levity, whose coexistence yields astonishing and proven results.
From concept to culmination, creative works of all stripes are executed with passion, discipline and detail while nurturing the delight, humor and flow of divergent & free-thinking. Outcomes range from locally famous to internationally infamous!
Serious Vein is home base to producer-musician-actor-writer-director-coach-consultant-photographer (and hyphenate-skeptic) Pete Macnamara, Fine&Dandy Records, Spiny Norman Publishing, and the performing artist "p-Rex."
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ORIGINAL CONTENT
Inspired stories. Quirky, irreverent & pithy. Screenplay, teleplay, theater, narration & sketch scripting, narrative-to-brand structuring, copywriting, slogans, tags, & jingle lyrics. Press releases, bios and one-sheets. Graphics & imagery coordination for targeted messaging with zero clutter.
MUSIC PRODUCTION
Composition/arranging/orchestration/recording/mixing. Commercial jingles, underscoring, album projects, demos, web content. WIDELY KNOWN for filmic horns, strings & vocals. Knack for memorable ear-worm melodies and authentic, groovy genre hybrids. Stellar NYC talent base; reverent jazz roots & influence.
RECORDING, ENGINEERING, EDITING & MASTERING
Music, dialog, sfx, voice-over & adr, editing, pitch correction, eq, fx, Noise reduction, finalization & repair, video editing + sync.
DIRECTION, SUPERVISION, COACHING & AUDITION PREP
Fun, snap-to, precision direction. Popular, proven coaching & preparation for any performer. Rapid analysis of scene structure, story elements and character intention. Music lessons, script-doctoring & literary editing, obstacle removal, artist development & guidance, career strategy.
VIDEO PRODUCTION / STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
Videography (incl. Self-Tapes), cinematography, still photography, editing, color-correction. Full film project coordination from full oversight to crew/talent/logistics/gear & scheduling. Published photographer with large B&W jazz archive.
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