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Fallout

Set in a future where a cataclysmic war is waged daily on American soil, “Fallout” focuses on the investigation into a failed mission by a Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism team to stop a group of terrorists with a suitcase nuke in the ruins of Phoenix, Arizona. A military investigator examines for evidence of betrayal – via questioning and a brutal holographic memory extraction process – though he may have his own agenda. An epic science fiction action thriller inspired by “24,” “Stargate SG-1,” “The Wire,” and “Minority Report,” “Fallout” was shot entirely on greenscreen and was produced by the students and faculty of the University of Advancing Technology’s Digital Video Program. 31 students worked on this project for more than a year under the supervision of writer/director/professor Paul DeNigris.

2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
- Semifinalist, Innovation in Motion and Video in Education

2011 Phoenix Film Festival
- Best Arizona Short

2011 Los Angeles Reel Film Festival
- Student Film category – 3rd Place, Best Editing, and Best Digital Effects

2011 Los Angeles Movie Awards
- Award of Excellence, Best Editing, Best Special Effects

2011 Los Angeles Film & Script Festival
- Honorable Mention, Narrative Shorts Category

2011 Action on Film International Film Festival
- Runner Up, Best Visual Effects (Short)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:
2010 International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival (Tempe, AZ)
2011 Phoenix Film Festival
2011 Los Angeles Film & Script Festival
2011 Los Angeles Movie Awards
2011 NewFilmmakers LA
2011 Los Angeles Reel Film Festival
2011 Action on Film International Film Festival
2011 HollyShorts Film Festival
2011 Renovation World Sci-Fi Convention Independent Fan Film Festival (Reno, NV)
2011 Atlanta Horror Film Festival
2011 Terror Film Festival (Philadelphia, PA)

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Extraordinary Colleagues

“Extraordinary Colleagues” tells two parallel tales – that of a comic book writer and her clueless editor, along with a glimpse into the larger-than-life “Sin City” style comic book they produce.

This was our entry for the Phoenix Film Foundation’s Summer 2010 “Beat The Clock” 48 Hour Film Challenge. The line of dialogue we had to include was “I am so hungry.” The required prop was a paintbrush. And we had a choice of 2 genres – action or romantic comedy. So we did both.

And yes, everything you see here was done in 48 hours, including all the animation and After Effects work!

 

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Kottak Attack: An Inside Look

Go behind the scenes of “Kottak Attack,” the video currently accompanying James Kottak’s epic drum solo during the Scorpions’ “Get Your Sting and Blackout” World Tour! See how state-of-the art visual effects were used to take you on a rollercoaster ride into James Kottak’s brain and send you back in time as the Scorpions’ iconic album covers come to life. From the surreal desert of “Crazy World” to the apocalyptic future of “Humanity Hour 1,” from the caged heat of “Pure Instinct” to the torture chamber of “Blackout,” this is one wild ride you don’t want to miss!

Directed by Paul DeNigris

Produced by Steve Macia

Co-Producer Shari Corbett

 

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Cowboy Dreams

Wild Bill Crum (Bill Engvall) is so good with a gun that he’s a target for every tough guy in the West. While Bill has survived physically, he is haunted by nightly dreams in which he faces a soulless menace out for vengeance. In restless slumber Bill is pulled inexorably towards a showdown, stripped of his natural confidence and self-assurance.

At last Bill is driven to share his nightly terrors with the men in whose hands he puts his life every day in the brutal existence of the trail-riding cowboy. As Bill bares his soul to the other cowboys in the flickering firelight, their reactions – and subsequent analysis – prove to be enlightening and more than a little humorous.

Directed by Paul DeNigris
Written by Steve Briscoe

 

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Swish Pan – video art installation

In this art video piece co-created with artist Mark Vinci for “Flip a Strip” (an exhibit at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art), the challenge was to create a video which evoked the banality of the strip mall as well as the essence of how we experience these buildings – usually as a rapidly-passing blur through the car window. Borrowing cues from Vinci’s artwork (markvinciart.com) and taking inspiration from a quintessentially 80′s track (“Every Big City” by Wang Chung, from their To Live and Die in L.A. soundtrack), the piece combines car-mounted shots, timelapse, and lots of “swish pans” adding up to a kinetic study of these ubiquitous forms that dot the American landscape.