I was hired as Production Designer for an upcoming mini-short film for the popular website www.collegehumor.com ! The film, directed by my buddy Erick Boychuk, is a take on "The Office", but set in a Mayan Temple in 316 b.c. ! LMAO!
Im currently designing and researching the look of the sets, which we will build and shoot by mids of May. I spent some hours in the central library today afternoon (after wrapping early on Byron Lamarque's set - I love movies with children in them, they make short shoot days!) and borrowed a bunch of books with pictures of Mayan architecture and lifestyle. (Picture books being my favorite kind of books lol)
Im stoked about this gig. Its going to be a blast building and decorating the set inside a sound stage!
Let me know if you're interested in helping out and I'll hook you up! We're shooting in May 24th, only one day. (But we'll be busy building the sets well before then!)
YAY!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
My interview on Beyond Robson Magazine
Last month I was approached by Beyond Robson Magazine (www.beyondrobson.com) for an interview that would be featured in their section on Vancouver's Filmmakers. The article is finally published - its great to read about other local filmmakers and dreamers like myself! (we're not alone! haha)
Go filmmakers Go!
Javier Badillo - Filmmaker
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Go filmmakers Go!
Javier Badillo - Filmmaker
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Webseries in the making!
I am producing a fast and funny webseries called "Badillo Bros. DIY Car Patchup Show" (working title).
This young adult oriented, tongue-in-cheek lifestyle series, 5 minute per episode, will follow my brother Victor and me, (complete opposites but inseparable pals), on our mission to fix simple car problems and teach anyone how to do it themselves, at home.
Now, the goal is to actually learn something useful and legit while having fun in the process. Victor is a professionally trained Automotive Service Technician and has years of experience in car repair, aside from being a total car and motorbike junkie. Me? Im just the guy who uses cars to get from point A to point B, when every other form of transportation fails. And like me, my friends with cars could use a tip or two about DIY car repair and save themselves some money to buy food and pay rent. hehe
In each 5 minute episode we'll introduce a new "client" (a buddy with a car problem), a hilarious animated sequence of "what could go wrong" if the potential problem is left untreated, and a fun, easy solution in the hands of Victor. (not Javier, god help us!). There's more - the show will also feature the local cultural and ethnic mosaic, and the episodes will be peppered with subtitles when our clients don't speak English!
SO! I'm very excited about this project and I'll keep you guys posted on its development. We already have some key production elements falling into place and things should move forward within the next couple of months.
Stay tuned! ;D
love,
Javier
This young adult oriented, tongue-in-cheek lifestyle series, 5 minute per episode, will follow my brother Victor and me, (complete opposites but inseparable pals), on our mission to fix simple car problems and teach anyone how to do it themselves, at home.
Now, the goal is to actually learn something useful and legit while having fun in the process. Victor is a professionally trained Automotive Service Technician and has years of experience in car repair, aside from being a total car and motorbike junkie. Me? Im just the guy who uses cars to get from point A to point B, when every other form of transportation fails. And like me, my friends with cars could use a tip or two about DIY car repair and save themselves some money to buy food and pay rent. hehe
In each 5 minute episode we'll introduce a new "client" (a buddy with a car problem), a hilarious animated sequence of "what could go wrong" if the potential problem is left untreated, and a fun, easy solution in the hands of Victor. (not Javier, god help us!). There's more - the show will also feature the local cultural and ethnic mosaic, and the episodes will be peppered with subtitles when our clients don't speak English!
SO! I'm very excited about this project and I'll keep you guys posted on its development. We already have some key production elements falling into place and things should move forward within the next couple of months.
Stay tuned! ;D
love,
Javier
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Cineworks Committee!
Last night I became appointed member of the Equipment and Technical Advisory Committee and the new Fundraising and Marketing Committee of Vancouver's Cineworks Filmmaker's Society, at their annual general meeting.
In the next few days I will start participating in the shaping of the future of this awesome collective of film artists. If you don't know about Cineworks yet, check them out! www.cineworks.ca
In the next few days I will start participating in the shaping of the future of this awesome collective of film artists. If you don't know about Cineworks yet, check them out! www.cineworks.ca
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Screenplays submitted to Hot Shot Shorts!
After cold reading and workshopping "Karen and the Slug" and "RSVP" last week with the great actors John R Taylor, Liberty Kee and Olivia Reese, I went back and re-wrote them, and made them much better. I was having a hard time making those dialogues believable, but fortunately my brother Victor and my good friend Emily helped me out with them. After doing some major changes (axed one character in one of them, changed the arc of another character in the other), I finally felt confident of having something worth showing to the film community.
So tonight I went to the weekly Celluloid Social Club meeting and submitted both of my scripts for consideration - after paying a considerable sum (Im wondering how am I going to pay for rent next month, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there).
Fingers crossed at least one of my scripts will make it to the reading session (5 will be workshopped) and who knows, maybe even get picked to be the one to get produced (with over 20,000 dollars worth of equipment from William F White and services from other companies)!
And if not, well, I'll make them anyway! :)
So tonight I went to the weekly Celluloid Social Club meeting and submitted both of my scripts for consideration - after paying a considerable sum (Im wondering how am I going to pay for rent next month, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there).
Fingers crossed at least one of my scripts will make it to the reading session (5 will be workshopped) and who knows, maybe even get picked to be the one to get produced (with over 20,000 dollars worth of equipment from William F White and services from other companies)!
And if not, well, I'll make them anyway! :)
Monday, April 12, 2010
Great moviemaking and musicmaking weekend!
This weekend was epic - two awesome movies and a stellar band rehearsal. Saturday and Sunday became one solid day!
On Saturday and Sunday I Art Directed my buddy Erick Boychuk's short comedy "The Curious Case of the Missing Condom", written by Elsa Morena and produced/starred by Mike Germant and Alexis McEwen. It was a great fun shoot, and laughter was present in front and behind the camera all the time!
We wrapped at 7pm, and I jumped on the bus to make it to my band's rehearsal at Crying Sky music studios on Main street. The jam session went awesome, and the songs are sounding better by the minute. Then the band chilled out at the new Timmy Ho's next to the studio, which has been the habit lately. Cant wait to jam again next week.
On Sunday, just before wrapping "Curious case of missing condom", I left to work on my friend and ex-film instructor Byron Lamarque's Feature Film "Lost and Found", a dance drama. I wore the hat of Key Grip on this one. The location was in a beautiful heritage house in New Westminster, about an hour away from the other film. But it was worth it, the shoot went well and we wrapped at midnight.
Byron's film has about ten more days left to shoot, starting again next weekend. I will again be in charge of sourcing most of the equipment from the Vancouver film rental houses, which I enjoy doing and saying hi to my old buddies who work there!
Its monday night, and Im going into withdrawal. lol
On Saturday and Sunday I Art Directed my buddy Erick Boychuk's short comedy "The Curious Case of the Missing Condom", written by Elsa Morena and produced/starred by Mike Germant and Alexis McEwen. It was a great fun shoot, and laughter was present in front and behind the camera all the time!
We wrapped at 7pm, and I jumped on the bus to make it to my band's rehearsal at Crying Sky music studios on Main street. The jam session went awesome, and the songs are sounding better by the minute. Then the band chilled out at the new Timmy Ho's next to the studio, which has been the habit lately. Cant wait to jam again next week.
On Sunday, just before wrapping "Curious case of missing condom", I left to work on my friend and ex-film instructor Byron Lamarque's Feature Film "Lost and Found", a dance drama. I wore the hat of Key Grip on this one. The location was in a beautiful heritage house in New Westminster, about an hour away from the other film. But it was worth it, the shoot went well and we wrapped at midnight.
Byron's film has about ten more days left to shoot, starting again next weekend. I will again be in charge of sourcing most of the equipment from the Vancouver film rental houses, which I enjoy doing and saying hi to my old buddies who work there!
Its monday night, and Im going into withdrawal. lol
Monday, April 5, 2010
A night of rocking
Last night we rehearsed for a good three hours at the studio and finished another song. We don't have enough songs for a set yet, but Its always encouraging to know you are making progress when its easy to feel you're running on a wheel, like a hamster. So I think it doesn't matter if you're moving ahead slowly as long as you're moving ahead! Sooner or later you'll look back and say, wow did I come from all the way back there? :) It's definitely a thought that has kept me going when things seemed to have gone stagnant in my life.
The new songs are a mix of old school punk and latin ska, and sound like they're gonna be awesome to play live one day. Fast and loud. We still need more tweaks here and there, need to tighten up the structures and I gotta write new lyrics, but the hardest part is mostly done - four strangers got together and wrote a few first songs! As we keep on jamming, the process will become faster, better and somewhat easier, as we become better friends, our communication becomes second nature and our band chemistry strengthens! w00t!
Somewhere down the line we'll come up with a name for the band too. haha
The new songs are a mix of old school punk and latin ska, and sound like they're gonna be awesome to play live one day. Fast and loud. We still need more tweaks here and there, need to tighten up the structures and I gotta write new lyrics, but the hardest part is mostly done - four strangers got together and wrote a few first songs! As we keep on jamming, the process will become faster, better and somewhat easier, as we become better friends, our communication becomes second nature and our band chemistry strengthens! w00t!
Somewhere down the line we'll come up with a name for the band too. haha
Friday, April 2, 2010
Cold Read / Workshop for 2 of my scripts
I will be workshopping 2 shorts I wrote :
"RSVP" and "Karen And The Slug".
Im looking for a few actors to come out and play!
Time and date: Thursday, April 8th, 2010, 9am
Location: TBA
Scripts:
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Title: RSVP
Logline: A young urban woman is hired to teach a lonely senior man how to use the internet and send an email.
Synopsis: When Kit gets hired to teach a senior how to use the web she thinks its easy money. Drama unfolds when she finds out he's been invited and has to RSVP to his daughter's wedding, whom he disowned when she was a teenager for moving in with her boyfriend.
Genre: Drama
Length: ~5 pages
Kit - a young woman in her 20s, East Indian or Philippine.
Donald - a senior man in his 60s/70s, Caucasian or Chinese.
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Title: Karen And The Slug
Logline: A little girl scams her mom for money to buy an ice cream.
Synopsis: Karen really wants an ice cream like the other neighborhood kids. But when mom tells her she cant have any money for it, Karen devises a plan: to bring garden slugs into the bathtub and convince her mom to use the old method to repel them by spreading coins around.
Genre: Comedy
Length: ~5 pages
Karen - a witty 8 year old girl, Latina, East Indian or Philippine.
Sarah (mom) - a young woman in her 20s. Latina, East Indian or Philippine.
Pedro (dad, smaller part) - a young man in his 30s. Latino, East Indian or Philippine.
"RSVP" and "Karen And The Slug".
Im looking for a few actors to come out and play!
Time and date: Thursday, April 8th, 2010, 9am
Location: TBA
Scripts:
----------
Title: RSVP
Logline: A young urban woman is hired to teach a lonely senior man how to use the internet and send an email.
Synopsis: When Kit gets hired to teach a senior how to use the web she thinks its easy money. Drama unfolds when she finds out he's been invited and has to RSVP to his daughter's wedding, whom he disowned when she was a teenager for moving in with her boyfriend.
Genre: Drama
Length: ~5 pages
Kit - a young woman in her 20s, East Indian or Philippine.
Donald - a senior man in his 60s/70s, Caucasian or Chinese.
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Title: Karen And The Slug
Logline: A little girl scams her mom for money to buy an ice cream.
Synopsis: Karen really wants an ice cream like the other neighborhood kids. But when mom tells her she cant have any money for it, Karen devises a plan: to bring garden slugs into the bathtub and convince her mom to use the old method to repel them by spreading coins around.
Genre: Comedy
Length: ~5 pages
Karen - a witty 8 year old girl, Latina, East Indian or Philippine.
Sarah (mom) - a young woman in her 20s. Latina, East Indian or Philippine.
Pedro (dad, smaller part) - a young man in his 30s. Latino, East Indian or Philippine.
Loves of Lady Purple
I've been working with Daniella Sorrentino, a writer/director who works in the Vancouver advertising world and whom I've known for a few years, on her upcoming dramatic fantasy thriller "Loves of Lady Purple".
The story was originally written by the late British novelist Angela Carter, and Daniella acquired the rights to this particular short story, which she felt strongly compelled to convert into a short film.
And what a story it is! A wonderfully dark tale of chilling gothic fare. I can't reveal more details, but I'm totally blown away by the visual concepts Daniella envisions and the huge task of bringing them to celluloid life. I've been storyboarding and brainstorming with her, and going one step at a time.
Here's a wiki page on Angela Carter's short stories, where Loves of Lady Purple is found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks:_Nine_Profane_Pieces
The story was originally written by the late British novelist Angela Carter, and Daniella acquired the rights to this particular short story, which she felt strongly compelled to convert into a short film.
And what a story it is! A wonderfully dark tale of chilling gothic fare. I can't reveal more details, but I'm totally blown away by the visual concepts Daniella envisions and the huge task of bringing them to celluloid life. I've been storyboarding and brainstorming with her, and going one step at a time.
Here's a wiki page on Angela Carter's short stories, where Loves of Lady Purple is found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks:_Nine_Profane_Pieces
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