Charlie on Parole

SPOILER ALERT: We’re the last film in the last...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:35:14 -0500

SPOILER ALERT: We’re the last film in the last block

Details about The Unofficial Google+ Film Festival

When: Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 8 p.m. E.S.T. (GMT -5)
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Congratulations to the 18 short films that have been selected. The schedule of films are listed below. Most if not all the filmmakers will be in attendance!

How it all works:
Each block of 6 films will be streamed live at http://VidCastNetwork.com, and then a Google+ Hangout will be streamed with the filmmakers in attendance for a question and answer session immediately following the films.

A moderator will field questions for the filmmakers via chat from the audience on VidCastNetwork. You will also be able to post your questions for the filmmakers on a comment thread located at the +Unofficial Google+ Film Festival page.
In order to participate in the chat on VidCastNetwork, you will need to create a free account at VidCastNetwork.com (through Justin.tv).

At the end of each hour, 6 new films will be shown with the new filmmakers in attendance.

At approximately 11:30 p.m. E.S.T., the Google+ Hangout will be opened to additional people and then the public.

Unofficial Google+ Film Festival Programming

Short Film Block 1: Saturday December 3, 2011 at 8 p.m. E.S.T. (GMT -5)
“Nuit Blanche” by Arev Manoukian from +Spy Films
“Sebastian’s Voodoo” by +Joaquin Baldwin
“Frankie and Toby - Snack Attack” by +Dennis Barahona
“Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan” by +Brad Kremer
“UNIPSYCHO: A Documentary” by +David Howe
“La Cosecha (The harvest)” by +Daniel Garco

Short Film Block 2: Saturday December. 3, 2011 at 9 p.m. E.S.T. (GMT -5)
“Kingyo” by +Edmund Yeo
“Leave Me” by +Ryan Dunlap
“Out of Order” by +Paddy O’Sullivan
“The Bad Smell” by +James Gass
“The Suspect” by +Vinod Bharathan
“The Inner Workings of Outer Space” by +Paul Cain

Short Film Block 3: Saturday December 3, 2011 at 10 p.m. E.S.T. (GMT -5)
“The Board Room” by +Mike Wollaeger
“The Pet Shop” by +Matthew Gilmore
“Candy Crime” by +Ben Jacobson
“Change for a Dollar” by +Sharon Wright
“M v. W” by +Alex Gianopoulos
“Charlie On Parole” by +Darren Miller, +Kevin Mead, +Paul Briganti

Public Hangout with the Filmmakers and audience: Saturday December 3, 2011 at approximately 11:30 p.m. - ? E.S.T. (GMT -5).

Project Contributors
+Keith Barrett - Live Streaming
+Jaime Byrd - Creative Collaboration/Hosting
+Johnathan Chung - Creative Collaboration
+Ryan Crowe - Creative Collaboration
+Christina Trapolino - Creative Collaboration
+Aaron Wood - Artwork
+Daria Musk - Special thanks for the inspiration and early contribution.

Brought to you by:
+Blind Lyle Films - http://www.blindlylefilms.com
+SocioloG+ - http://www.sociologyplus.com
+Vidcast Network - http://vidcastnetwork.com

Charlie On Parole has been accepted to the Unofficial Google+ Film Festival!

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:03:56 -0500

Charlie On Parole has been accepted to the Unofficial Google+ Film Festival!:

It will be screened as part of the 3rd screening block at 10pm, this Saturday, December 3rd!

We’ll be there for a live streaming Q&A afterward!

Tell your friends!

What is the song that plays at 18:20 through 18:45? Great film by the way!!

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:03:32 -0500

This is from Just Impolite by Plushgun

Thanks so much! Thanks for watching!

this was awesome.. thx

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:43:26 -0400

Thank you so much for watching it and liking it and letting us know! That’s three more things than we could ever hope for! Well actually, that’s exactly what we hoped for. You’re awesome. That’s what I’m trying to say. You are awesome. Thx you.

Just Impolite by Plushgun Featured in the trailer and film!

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:07:08 -0400

Just Impolite by Plushgun

Featured in the trailer and film!

Here’s a song from the film written and recorded by Emily...

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:28:24 -0400

Here’s a song from the film written and recorded by Emily Axford!

Worth the wait: "Charlie On Parole," a short film starring TJ Miller

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:54:28 -0400

Worth the wait: "Charlie On Parole," a short film starring TJ Miller :

We’re on the Comic’s Comic!

Good Day by Jukebox The Ghost Featured in the credits of Charlie...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:06:00 -0400

Good Day by Jukebox The Ghost

Featured in the credits of Charlie On Parole

Charlie On Wikipedia

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:36:26 -0400

Charlie On Wikipedia:

Feel free to add anything if it makes sense!

Check Out Charlie on Parole, a Short Film with TJ Miller, Bobby Moynihan and Joe Wengert | Splitsider

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:03:01 -0400

Check Out Charlie on Parole, a Short Film with TJ Miller, Bobby Moynihan and Joe Wengert | Splitsider:

We’re on Splitsider!

captainhippo: With the recent release of the short...

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:36:18 -0400

captainhippo:

With the recent release of the short film, Charlie On Parole, on the interwebs for all of your viewing pleasure, we’d like to present you with a cover we made. It is a cover of a song Emily Axford wrote for the film.

Also go and watch the film.

Charlie On Parole Stars TJ Miller, Molly Ryman, Joe Wengert, Lynn Laurence, Mitch Wissick, and Bobby Moynihan.

Written by Kevin Mead, Paul Briganti, and Darren Miller.

Directed by Paul Briganti and Kevin Mead

Music by Emily Axford, Plushgun, and Jukebox The Ghost.

We love this!

mooshoo: One of the neat little things about being one of the...

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:34:00 -0400

mooshoo:

One of the neat little things about being one of the editors of Tumblr’s film section is that I’m e-mailed daily by directors and producers who want me to plug their projects. While I think that the gesture is great, most of the stuff I’ve been sent thus far hasn’t really been worthy of plugging.

That changed today.

This morning I received an e-mail from Darren Miller asking me to watch ‘Charlie on Parole,’ which is this fantastic short film starring the always hilarious TJ Miller (Cloverfield, She’s Out of My League).

If you like the film, feel free to follow the guys that made it below:

[CharlieOnParole.com | Kevin Mead | Paul Briganti | Darren Miller]

Thank you so much for the amazing support!

kevinmead: paulbriganti: darrenmiller: Three years ago, Paul...

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:33:33 -0400

kevinmead:

paulbriganti:

darrenmiller:

Three years ago, Paul Briganti, Kevin Mead, and I made this 22 minute short film, starring TJ Miller.

Over time, we recut it, and decided recently to release it on the internet to the public.

This was by far the hardest thing I’d ever done in my entire life. I was a junior in college and knew nothing about how to make a film; all I knew is that I wanted to. So I worked my ass off. And Paul and Kevin did even more so - they co-directed this, and it’s something I’m very proud of.

I know it’s not the kind of thing you can watch while you’re doing 8 other things, so if you happen to find a free 20 minutes and want to watch, I hope you like it.

Trying to release this online and make it successful without approaching traditional distribution channels is a bit of an experiment, so if you’re able to help out at all by passing this video around, we would love you. Passionately. It would last forever until we die together at the same time while making out at the age of 6000.

CHARLIE ON PAROLE (official website)

Starring TJ Miller, Molly Ryman, Joe Wengert, Lynn Laurence, Mitch Wissick, and Bobby Moynihan.

Written by Kevin Mead, Paul Briganti, and Darren Miller.

Directed by Paul Briganti and Kevin Mead

Produced by Darren Miller, Kevin Mead, and Paul Briganti

Music by Emily Axford, Plushgun, and Jukebox The Ghost.

Thanks for the well written description of passion, Darren!

We made this film a few years ago and were lucky enough to have a bunch of friends and very talented people be in it.

I’m really happy people can see it. It is a very long watch for the internet, but if you have nothing to do on your lunch break, tune in!!

Yea, thanks Darren! And thanks Paul! And thanks to every person who helped us make this happen.

For a short, this film has changed so many times since the initial cut, and I am really happy with where it ended up. Pretty much everything I’ve learned about writing and filmmaking can be tracked according to the progress of this film, and I owe that to all the incredibly talented people who helped us make this. Thanks everyone! And if you haven’t seen it, check it out, yo!

Charlie On Parole On IMDB

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:09:00 -0500

Charlie On Parole On IMDB:

We’re on IMDB!

Check out the poster for Charlie On Parole!

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:08:00 -0400

Check out the poster for Charlie On Parole!

We have completed the trailer for “Charlie On Parole”!

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:07:00 -0400

We have completed the trailer for “Charlie On Parole”!

GW Rough Cut Screening

Sat, 10 May 2008 16:06:00 -0400

We held a rough-cut screening event at GWU last night. It was the first time all of “On Parole” was shown to the public. The event was a success, because we say so. Also because we raised a lot of money for post production, and everyone seemed to have a great time and actually enjoy the movie. These are all good things. So, success. We are headed back into the editing room to keep working and we will be finished with the final cut by the end of the summer! Stay tuned!

Facebook Group!

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:06:00 -0500

Facebook Group!:

We have started a new facebook group to promote “On Parole” and the production company as a whole. The more people we can get together to help us make this all possible, the better. Tell all your friends! Check it out!

That's a WRAP!

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:04:00 -0500

Our final weekend of shooting is done!

Holy MOLY everyone! What a weekend!

The last few days have been about 15 hours long. Exhausting, but wonderful. I’ve written a lot about shooting on set so far, but there’s a lot more that goes on before and after that may be a lot rougher than what happens before the AD yells “action” and a director yells “cut”. For example, the first time this occured was at about 9am on Friday, but Kevin and I bussed up to New York from DC on Wednesday just to get the ball rolling. We started by renting the van to carry all of the equipment on Thursday morning. Of course, when we got there, we were met with “your van is gone, someone else rented it,” even though it was reserved. I didn’t tell the guy that he was unoriginal and that Seinfeld already did that one. BUT, he just gave us a 16 foot truck instead of a van for no extra cost, which was nice, except for the fact that it meant we had to be driving a 16 foot truck around Manhattan for a weekend (much easier than it sounds).

From there, we picked up all of our lighting equipment, and brought it over to our office location in Brooklyn where we’d be shooting the following day. We used the opportunity to unload all of our lights a day early to save time the next morning. We checked out the huge, barren office. This brought us back to Manhattan, where we decided we had to make a Staples/thrift store run to make it a huge, busy office. We had to split up for this, because we also had to run to Jersey City to pick up our camera. About four hours later, we were set to shoot in the morning.

All our office scenes were shot Friday morning. It was a lot of fun because we had this giant office to ourselves, and were able to populate it with some really great extras and supplies to make it work exactly the way we wanted. That last sentence sort of unintentionally equates supplies with extras. I’m sorry. Our extras were all really good. They made shooting even more fun. The office supplies did not. I mean, post-it notes and index cards are fun, but only to a certain extent. Anyway, the office scenes look great. We actually started the day shooting perhaps the most climactic scene in the movie, which was really interesting, because the rest of the day was spent shooting scenes that led up to it. Again, TJ was brilliant, and so were all our other actors. Joe was phenomenal. These were his showcase scenes and he nailed every one of them. He and TJ worked really well together (both are very experienced and talented improvisers).

After the office, we shot our subway flashback scene, which was a lot of fun. This is when Kevin, Paul and I have our cameos, so that was cool too. The footage from this scene looks really incredible. Gus made it look so awesome.

So, we packed everything up, left the truck in Brooklyn (no parking in Manhattan), and headed back. I wrote my expense report for the day and took what I’ll call a nap, because each night this weekend we slept for about three hours. Then it was wake up time. We split up to get the truck in Brooklyn and bring it back to Manhattan, so we could shoot all our apartment scenes. The apartment belongs to a friend of ours, so trying to set up in his place at 7am while trying not to wake his roommates was pretty difficult. It didn’t work. They were really nice about us being there and completely invading their place though.

We started the apartment scenes by trashing the place, shooting a scene after Charlie trashes his apartment, cleaning up the place, and then shooting “clean apartment” scenes. Again, footage looks amazing. I can’t wait to put some of this stuff up here so everyone can see it. Sunday was no different. Hang on, yes it was. We got to shoot in the most hilarious office I’ve ever been in. Our parole office is one with fake wood paneled walls with completed puzzles framed and hung on them, along with huge American flags hung everywhere. It was perfect. Yes, the scenes are funny, but not necessarily more so than the office in which they take place. That’s all I’m saying. Also, Bobby Moynihan and Emily Axford came shoot their cameos there. Both were so funny, and a lot of fun to have on set.

Sunday night, at about 7:30, halfway into the most disappointing Super Bowl of all time (try being a Pats fan in New York city on that day) we were done. It was an incredible feeling to have worked so hard with so many great people and actually pull it off the way we did. Every single cast and crew member worked so well on this project. We were so lucky. Or maybe just good at assembling a great cast and crew. I don’t know. Either way, we succeeded more than we ever could have hoped. We have a still extremely long road ahead of us with post production and beyond, but for now, we can proudly say that production for “On Parole” has officially completed.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our supporters who donated to the project. We are still fund raising as hard as ever, and still need more support as much as ever, but without this support we never could have come close to accomplishing what we’ve accomplished in these last three weeks. So thank you, so much. And don’t worry, everyone’s contributions went to good use. By this I mean, not only was it spent wisely, but it was all spent. Our budget was extremely tight, and now we are broke again.

So fund raising begins once more! If anyone is interested in being a part of this project, PLEASE check out our donation page and at least consider donating. And of course, check back here for production stills, cast/crew info, and footage very soon! This website is about to blow up!

TJ On Letterman!

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:03:00 -0500

TJ Miller, start of “On Parole,” was a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman last night for his role in the hit movie, Cloverfield!