HAZARD FACTORY

About a year ago, I helped a small local production with special effects for a day. i went out to Port Gamble and set Pyro effects for the film. It was very quick and dirty. I set up a volkwagon bug to detonate, rigged a friend of mine to catch on fire (without undue harm) and set another car and a few random objects with effects.

I went to the premier last night. I never would have guessed that Zombie film fans were so erudite, well spoken and generally showered. I caught up with the director Kevin Hamadani and his producer John, the same man that produced Iraq in fragments.

I recommend catching the film. It’s a comedy and completely over the top. It is an energentic send-up of living as an ethnic or gender minority, in the paranoid post 9_11 world. I would have liked to see a stronger intellectual effort, maybe an attempt to look at why Americans tend to isolate and persecute our minorities, but, it was a bit beyond the scope of a bloodspatter send-up.

I spent a little more time with the cast before the show and hopefully will pull some more independant f/x work in Seattle this year. Welll paid f/x work.

Rusty