Author: Jon Stout

My Ghost Stories (2025) web series

Are You Scared Yet? We’ve launched season one of My Ghost Stories, a series of short interviews that take you on a journey through five different paranormal encounters. Join us around the campfire, but be careful, these tales will send shivers down your spine.  Festival Round-up: Ready to take a […]

From the Office (2024) short film released

Festival Round-up We’re tickled to announce the release of the absurd dark comedy, From the Office (2024). Shot on 16mm film, in black and white, this film lives in the uncanny valley between office bureaucracy and human apathy. Featuring an inventive, retro score by composer Dario Forzato, as well as […]

Collaborating with an Editor:

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cutting Editing a film or video can be horrifying. You have to ‘kill your babies.’ This is not a skill that comes naturally (which is a good thing for babies). When you shoot a project, you fall in love with certain scenes, […]

Story: the beginning after the end…

I’ve been thinking about endings lately, and what makes a good one… Of course, on a technical level, the ending of your film should wrap up your plot — and wrap up the problem you’re tackling. You might wrap up your plot very neatly, like in Die Hard, where the […]