For Immediate Release
The Haunting at Danford Cabin
Winner Best Animation and Winner Grand Prize Best Overall Film
at the Third iPhone Film Festival
The Haunting At Danford Cabin – Official MoviePoster
Los Angeles, Ca – May 25th, 2012 – Genshi Media Group would like to congratulate Director Craig Anthony Perkins and Producer Debora Jo Myers for their win at the third iPhone Film Festival. Their stop-motion horror short “The Haunting at Danford Cabin” won Best Animation and took the Grand Prize for Best Overall Film at this year’s iPhone Film Festival. This year, the festival was judged by a jury of 10 filmmakers and industry professionals from around the world.
$3500 worth of prizes are being award to the Grand Prize winners, including $2000 worth of studio services at Filmlook post-production house, the Mobislyder, a Steadicam® Smoothee and the Fostex AR-4i Audio Interface along with a shipment of other prizes.
This is the third short film with Craig in the Director’s chair and the first shot as a stop-motion animation. In addition to Writing, Directing, Editing and Scoring the film, Craig along with Producer and Voice Actress Debora, acted as Puppeteers for their first time. “It was definitely a learning process and we found out the hard way what not to do the next time we attempt something like this…” said Craig when asked about the filming process of a stop-motion movie, “We did everything the old school way, shooting 24 single still shots [on the iPhone 4S] for every one second of footage that you see on the screen. All told we had about 4000 still shots that I then had to animate together.” Craig also spent a lot of time on the sound design, performing actual foley work, explaining “Every single sound you hear in the movie was recorded by me using the Zoom H4N hand-held recorder; the footsteps, the ticking clock, door creaks… every sound, just like they use to (and occasionally still) do in Hollywood. I even got Debora to make the chicken sounds when we tried (and failed) to record real chickens!”
“The Haunting at Danford Cabin” is also an Official Selection at the Canadian Film Centre’s Shorts Nonstop Film Festival and will be included in a couple of other festivals later this year.
About Craig Anthony Perkins:
Award winning Filmmaker, Composer, Photographer and Designer Craig Anthony Perkins began as a musician at the age of four and became interested in filmmaking at a very early age as well. In the past Craig has worked in both a creative and technical capacity within the entertainment industry for companies such as Philips Media, Universal Interactive Studios and AVID, doing everything from video game design and film post production, to sound design, composing and technical writing.
Under his own company Genshi Media Group, he has released several albums on the iTunes Music Store, has had his photography published in magazines and exhibited in galleries, and has designed indie art toys including the much sought-after Broken Heart Robot which has led to talks with two TV networks for consideration as an animated series based on his toy character.
Now, Craig is delving full time into filmmaking as a Director, utilizing his various skills and experience from the past.
About Debora Jo Myers:
Writer, Producer, Actress and Artist Debora Jo Myers is working as the Co-Writer, Producer, Actress and Costume Designer for recent Genshi Media Group films. She is also the co-founder, editor and multi-genre writer for the webzine Ladyfire.com. In the past she has also worked as a strong civil-rights activist and in her spare time is a collage artist and singer.
About Genshi Media Group:
Founded in 1995, Genshi Media Group specializes in film production, music and sound production as well as music consulting services for the film and tv industry. In addition, Genshi Media Group’s design division has enjoyed success in the areas of Web & Graphic design as well as Product/Toy design.
Genshi Media Group was founded by Craig Anthony Perkins as a vehicle for exploring his love of music, design and film production.
With his background as a composer, musician and producer as well as his experience in photography, web & graphic design and programming, Craig has been able to combine these elements into a working “production house” that has formed partnerships with other filmmakers, designers, musicians, programmers and artists as well as strong working relationships with major companies.
In 2011, Genshi Media Group refocused it’s entire company exclusively to Film Production, opening a film production office in the burgeoning film industry of Portland Oregon.
Scene from “The Haunting at Danford Cabin”
