SANTA MONICA, February 2011
Max Gold directs a commercial for FreeCreditScore.com.
In collaboration with producer Ben Kuller and DP Nate Anderson.
Ben Palacios stars as Beach Dude.
Jessica Davis stars as Beach Babe.
Watch the video here.
HOLLYWOOD, November 2011
Max Gold directs STEP ONE, a pivotal conversation in the recovery process of two addicts. The short film is currently being edited, to be finished in the next month.
Writer: Allison Burnett
“Like Truman Capote, Allison Burnett knows how to pull up a chair and whisper a juicy story into his lucky reader’s ear.” -Vanity Fair
Allison Burnett’s screenwriting credits include RESURRECTING THE CHAMP starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson (2007), AUTUMN IN NEW YORK starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder (2000), UNTRACEABLE starring Diane Lane (2008), and FEAST OF LOVE starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear (2007). Burnett currently has two new films due out in 2012 including GONE, starring Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Carpenter. His latest film UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING, starring Kate Beckinsale will hit theaters on January 20. His most recent novel, Death By Sunshine (2011) has been hailed as a “masterpiece of dark fiction.”
Director of Photography: Daniel B. Gold
Daniel B. Gold won the Sundance Excellence in Cinematography Award for his work on BLUE VINYL (2002), which he also co-directed and co-produced. His documentary EVERYTHING’S COOL (2007) was an official entry in the Sundance Film Festival and winner of the Audience Award at the Eckerd Film Festival. His cinematography work on BORN SWEET (2010) garnered the Short Filmmaking Award- Honorable Mention at the Sundance Film Festival. In summer of 2011, Gold shot two one-hour specials for the BBC, and has several new documentaries due out in 2012. Among these is FINDING NORTH, which will premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Producer: Ben Kuller
Ben Kuller graduated from Wesleyan University in May and just moved to the west coast. He worked on the set of the feature film AMERICAN GANGSTER directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe (2007). Following GANGSTER, he worked in the development office at New Line Cinema. STEP ONE is the second short he’s produced. Ben met Max at The Maine Media Workshops in Rockport. They reconnected in Los Angeles and teamed up to make this project happen.
Starring: John Fantasia
John most recently starred in the feature film PROJECT LONDON, due out in 2012. He also starred in the thriller THE COLLAPSED (2011), for which he was nominated for Best Actor in the Buffalo Screams Film Festival. His other credits include A/V (2011) and REGULATE (2011), NYPD BLUE (NBC) and LAW AND ORDER (NBC).
Starring: Ben Palacios
Ben graduated in 2011 from Vassar College where he starred in Web series and short films, including CLASSIC OF CHANGES and FOURTH FLOOR MAIN. His stage credits include Tom in FAT PIG, The Lecturer in REEFER MADNESS, and Kabe in ONE FLEA SPARE. Ben is also a graduate of Prague Film School’s acting program.
STEP ONE was shot at Groundwork Coffee, using the Canon 5D Mark 2 with L series lenses. 1st AC Hannah Watson goes into greater detail with her blog post. The sound technicians were Michael Moore’s collaborator Jayme Roy and Iryna Kucherenko.
STEP ONE‘s entire budget was pledged by generous Kickstarter backers. Among them was Associate Producer Michael Aaron Gallagher, who explains his involvement in an interview.
See some behind the scenes footage here.
MINNEAPOLIS, November 2011
Max Gold directs a promotional Web spot for Merwin Liquors. In collaboration with DP Ryan Taylor and sound engineer Patrick Schaefer.
Merwins is using the spot to launch their new video contest.
Live for just a couple days, the spot has already garnered attention from Citypages and LOL/OMG.
Watch the video here.
SANTA MONICA, November 2011
Brooklyn-based painter Martin Wittfooth curated an exhibition at Copro Gallery in Santa Monica.
Max Gold tells the story of Dark Water by following Wittfooth and his studio-mate Jason Yarmosky through opening night.
To learn more about Dark Water check out Max’s article on Cool Hunting.
Equipment generously provided by Ben Kuller, on-the-fly sound cleaned up by Patrick Schaefer.
Watch the video here.
MINNEAPOLIS, August 2009
Max Gold directs a musical documentary for Cool Hunting and The Walker Art Center. Featuring exclusive interviews with bands Yeasayer, Calexico, and Solid Gold.
See the full article at Cool Hunting.
Watch the video here.
POUGHKEEPSIE, May 1, 2008
Max Gold directs two seasons of the Web series, Classic of Changes.
Gold experiments with burgeoning forms of social media to allow the audience to predict and create story events, released weekly in ten minute episodes.
Vassar College’s Miscellany News interviews Gold about his series.
“Changes details the lives of children of privilege as they attend a selective, coeducational institution in the Hudson River Valley: not Vassar, but rather Pencey Preparatory School, a high school. The episodes have depicted drug deals and sex in showers. It’s The O.C. of the V.C.”
This is the first of many projects during which Gold teamed up with actor Ben Palacios.
Read the full article here.
CAMBRIDGE, June 17, 2007
Max Gold builds an online video widget to aggregate footage of presidential candidate Barack Obama in support of his campaign.
Bloomberg Business Week interviewed Max about the impact of video in social networking on the upcoming election.
19 year old Gold said of his project: “It was like me trying to teach myself. It was fun.”
Read the full article here.
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