A while back I was contacted by the maverick Rafe Friedman: director, producer, actor, musician and family man. He's creating a television show called "Shoot The Three" where he collects artists of any kind to come on his show and represent themselves. Basically a meet and greet soiree pot luck stew of artists for the world to see :)
This was the episode that I was so fortunate to be apart of. It's the rough cut as of right now, but I HAD to put it up because I was so excited. When the final one comes out, I'll of course post it.
Shoot The Three
I'm the last segment of the episode :)
Cheers!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Soon to be transferring blog
I recently just purchased my domain name. I know that sounds vain, but it had to be done, haha. I am working with the very talented Steven Gomez who will be helping me create my professional website.... since I don't really know all that technical stuff. Thank goodness for Steven! So eventually I am going to be transferring this blog to merge with my website so I'll have everything all nice and organized. I love things nice and organized :) So stay tuned for news about the website! The website is addressed as www.minamirkhah.com So excited!
Here's the scoop
I have been MIA for a couple of weeks because I've been on the move. Went to a baby shower for my best bud and then hung out with my expecting sister, then had Thanksgiving and here I am now back on the radar.
Before Thanksgiving, I did some ADR work with Nathan Phelps for the film "Presumed Dead" that we wrapped earlier this month. I had never really done ADR work so it was definitely interesting, to say the least, and way more challenging than I thought it would be. Having to sync with oneself is not easy! However, it was tons of fun and an experience that I am grateful for. I saw the rough cut of the film so far and whoa....Nathan and his crew are RIDICULOUSLY talented. The film is soooo saturated and moody. It's really beautiful to watch. I can't wait to hear it with full audio now :)
Before Thanksgiving, I did some ADR work with Nathan Phelps for the film "Presumed Dead" that we wrapped earlier this month. I had never really done ADR work so it was definitely interesting, to say the least, and way more challenging than I thought it would be. Having to sync with oneself is not easy! However, it was tons of fun and an experience that I am grateful for. I saw the rough cut of the film so far and whoa....Nathan and his crew are RIDICULOUSLY talented. The film is soooo saturated and moody. It's really beautiful to watch. I can't wait to hear it with full audio now :)
A belated Thanksgiving wish
Since I was too busy gobbling my gobbler, I didn't get a chance to wish everyone a happy, merry Thanksgiving. I had a wonderful and tryptophan'ed evening :)
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Another film screening for Ey Pari Kojai
Hey folks, the film I shot last year called "Ey Pari Kojai" is now screening in various places in NYC. This upcoming Thursday November 10th, the film will be screened at DMAC (Duo Multicultural Arts Center) which is located at 62 East 4th Street East Village, NYC starting at 8pm. You can get your tickets at the door for $12.
It's also screened at the Hamptons International Black Film Festival Sun on September 17th, where it received accolades and appraise from the audience, so come on out and support a great film.
Check out the Ey Pari Kojai page on Facebook here:
FB page for Ey Pari Kojai
You can also check out it's IMDB page here:
Ey Pari Kojai IMDB page
Children Of The Dust commences
Before I go into talking about Children Of The Dust, I want to quickly recap on the audition I talked about a few posts ago. I was contacted to come back in for callbacks, which lasted about 2.5-3 hours where we rotated between the other actors and took pictures to see whom looked more matched and what not. Now all that's left is to find out whether I got it or not. It'd be rrrrreeeeaaaalllllyyyyy amazing to have gotten this role, but if not, I'd be okay with it because some of the other talent there was really qualified. Good for Arizona :)
OKAY! Now onto C.O.T.D. First of all: I love the cast and crew. They are just super down to earth chill people. Always a great recipe for a fun time. Secondly, I totally love how demented the script is. It highlights characteristics between Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Gregg Araki and since Chris Wilembrecht, the director, loves John Waters, there's a splash of him in it too. However, the script is entirely from the mind of Chris, morphed from years of being a cinephile.
We began filming on the fresh Friday morning where we, Carrie Fee Rapp and myself, had hours of make up done. We were demons in the starting scenes and David Weideman, aka Mad Scientist, had made demon masks with a fleshy molded substance. He's insanely talented with his department and I'm SOOO stoked to have been able to work with him on this project. He made us look legit. I was afraid to even look at myself! We had blood oozing from us, demonic eyes, teeth...the whole shebang!
William Hightower who plays Vincent was a real trooper too. He went through hell and back with his character, literally, haha. It was a strong vibe as we filmed all day through to the night, but was rudely halted when it began raining outside. So a few of our scenes had to get postponed.
The next day was epic. More blood, more gore and Carrie even did her own stunts. Take that Hollywood! Then on Sunday, that's when things got cccrrraazzzyyyyy. No more demon make up, however, I got to drive a badass manual muscle car....and I looked gggggoooooodddddd. In fact, it inspired me to save money to eventually purchase one, haha. Then we drove to the desert, where we were all pyromaniacs. I can't go into detail because I don't want to spoil the surprise, but it's going to look AMAZING. Carrie and I did get a work out and poor Will acquired A LOT of bruises. Luckily he can handle it ;)
Here are some pics from this weekend.
Carrie getting her face did. David the Mad Scientist and Desirae Sawyer, who also did makeup
My turn
Rrraawwwrrrrr
My version of a micro-dermal peel
Vincent's morning blunder
It was an accident...I swear
Desert maniacs
OKAY! Now onto C.O.T.D. First of all: I love the cast and crew. They are just super down to earth chill people. Always a great recipe for a fun time. Secondly, I totally love how demented the script is. It highlights characteristics between Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Gregg Araki and since Chris Wilembrecht, the director, loves John Waters, there's a splash of him in it too. However, the script is entirely from the mind of Chris, morphed from years of being a cinephile.
We began filming on the fresh Friday morning where we, Carrie Fee Rapp and myself, had hours of make up done. We were demons in the starting scenes and David Weideman, aka Mad Scientist, had made demon masks with a fleshy molded substance. He's insanely talented with his department and I'm SOOO stoked to have been able to work with him on this project. He made us look legit. I was afraid to even look at myself! We had blood oozing from us, demonic eyes, teeth...the whole shebang!
William Hightower who plays Vincent was a real trooper too. He went through hell and back with his character, literally, haha. It was a strong vibe as we filmed all day through to the night, but was rudely halted when it began raining outside. So a few of our scenes had to get postponed.
The next day was epic. More blood, more gore and Carrie even did her own stunts. Take that Hollywood! Then on Sunday, that's when things got cccrrraazzzyyyyy. No more demon make up, however, I got to drive a badass manual muscle car....and I looked gggggoooooodddddd. In fact, it inspired me to save money to eventually purchase one, haha. Then we drove to the desert, where we were all pyromaniacs. I can't go into detail because I don't want to spoil the surprise, but it's going to look AMAZING. Carrie and I did get a work out and poor Will acquired A LOT of bruises. Luckily he can handle it ;)
Here are some pics from this weekend.
Carrie getting her face did. David the Mad Scientist and Desirae Sawyer, who also did makeup
My turn
Rrraawwwrrrrr
My version of a micro-dermal peel
Vincent's morning blunder
It was an accident...I swear
Desert maniacs
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Happy Halloween!
Last week in the spirit of Halloween Travis Mills, Spencer W Carey and myself filmed a short about the tale between Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Ed Gein. Ed Gein is the story behind the cult classic film Psycho, where he claimed to have dug up his mother's grave and kept her "living" with him. Errol Morris and Werner Herzog are brilliant filmmakers and they decided to investigate Ed Gein's story about digging his mother's body up from the grave and seeing whether it was true or not. Herzog and Morris planned on meeting at the grave, Herzog arrived first to only wait in vain for Morris.
This short is based off that historical tidbit, with a lil' twist in the end.
Augusta: The Plainfield Ghoul
This short is based off that historical tidbit, with a lil' twist in the end.
Augusta: The Plainfield Ghoul
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