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Welcome to the Tornado Films Newsletter for Sunday 21 April 2002.
Yes- this is the first newsletter since November
of 2001 so you haven't
been missing them- we just haven't been sending
them.
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Today is the one year anniversary of the
death of our dear friend Kenny
Raymond Bolden. Had he still been with
us he would have celebrated his
27th birthday last month.
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Website redesign.
If you haven't been to our website lately
you will not recognize it.
We have redesigned and streamlined the website
making it easier to view
and easier to navigate. Buttons on
the main screen take you to the
most popular pages. The menu on the
inside has been divided into
subcategories for easier navigation.
Plus, the site has an overall cleaner
look.
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Will the Real Tornado Films Please Stand
Up...
Eric Carlson, my friend and co-worker, inadvertantly
discovered ANOTHER
Tornado Films as he was trying to find my
website last week. After
doing some detective work I have found it
to be a British independent film
company owned by Geoff Evans. For the
full story and to read the
correspondances between Mr. Evans and myself
check out Lon's World Rant
Column on our website.
To visit Mr. Evans' Tornado Films surf on
over to:
http://tornadofilms.com
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Are we ever going to film again?
Yes. Soon. I hope.
As many of you know, I had projects planned
for early January of this
year. Now, nearly five months later
they remain unfilmed. Things got a
little busy and I got a little burned out...
(little being an
understatement in both statements), but I'm
ready to get back on track and get
the ball rolling. I want to film my
two shorts that deal with the 11
September attacks. The two films are
"Deserving Selfish" starring Amanda
L. Barenberg as a New York housewife and
DeAnna Winkler as her 'close'
friend and "Never Forget" starring J. Crawley
as a man suffering from a
huge loss and Mariann R. Porubszky as the
woman that enters his life.
I hope to finish both films in time to make
the mid-July entry deadline
for the Austin Film Festival.
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Re-writing like crazy.
Since the Austin Film Festival centers on
the writer, I would like to
enter "Yellow Brick Road", "Adrenaline",
and "Piper" in the
screenwriting competetion. I've been
busy 'cleaning up' and 'adjusting' these
three feature length screenplays to prepare
them for entry.
To visit the Austin Film Festival, surf over
to:
http://www.austinfilmfestival.com
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That is all for today's newsletter.
Please be sure to visit our
redesigned page (which even has message boards!)
and for Heaven's sake...
SIGN THAT GUESTBOOK!!!
Also, if you have been involved in one or
more of our productions you
will find a biography page for yourself in
our People section. If there
is any missing information, or if you have
any information or pictures
to add please e-mail them to:
http://biography@tornadofilms.8m.com
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Remember- visit our site:
http://tornadofilms.8m.com
Thanks!
Lon
This weekly hour-hour show, created and directed
by
Lon Christopher Teter, will focus on those
of us who
can't afford to go see a first-run movie
in the
theatre or to rent a new release. Each
week Kylie and
Bobby (played by Wichita State University
Theatre
Performance Majors Amanda L. Barenberg and
J. Crawley)
will watch and review 2-3 motion pictures
available to
rent in the Wichita area for under a buck.
(Depending
on where you go... Dillons has movie rentals
for 49
cents).
The show will air three times a week on KTQW
TV-53, a
low power UHF station. Cox Communications
refuses to
put this station on cable so in order to
watch it you
must UNPLUG & HANG... Unplug your cable
line and hang
your UHF loop antenna. The closer to
downtown Wichita
you live the better chance you'll have of
receiving
the station.
The show times are as follows:
Thursdays at 7pm (opposite "Friends" and "Survivor")
with repeats on Saturday at 3pm (after North
High
basketball) and Monday at 5:30pm.
The first episode airs Thursday 29 November 2001.
More information is available at the official
Kylie
and Bobby home page:
http://KBmovies.8m.net
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21 October 2k1
Park City, KS
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"PIPER" update.
So far all shooting on PIPER has been a success!
I am
extrememly pleased with how everything has
gone so
far. I look forward to getting back
on track with
shooting once some of my actors are done
with an
upcoming production of "The Glass Menagerie."
Meanwhile check out the PIPER page at:
http://tornadofilms.8m.com/piper.html
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"The Glass Menagerie"
Come see the first Wichita State University
Second
Stage production this week at The Welsbacher
Theatre
at WSU's Hughes Metropolitan Complex at 29th
North and
Oliver. It is Tennessee Williams' "The
Glass
Menagerie" and stars three Tornado Films
alumns:
J. Crawley (TANNER in "Piper") as Tom
DeAnna Winkler (TEEN GIRL in "Carry On",
PIPER in
"Piper") as Amanda
Matthew Clark (BAR PATRON in "Piper")
as Jim.
The show runs at 7:30 pm 25-27 October and
at 2:00 pm
27-28 October 2001.
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Tornado Films will enter FULL digital production
with
our next project:
Yep, our next project will be shot with an
$8000
professional grade digital camera and edited
on a
Media 100 professional grade editing bay...
How is this you ask? Simple, as of this
coming
Tuesday, Lon Christopher Teter will become
the newest
intern at KTQW TV-53 in Wichita, Kansas.
What?
Haven't heard of TV-53...? That's okay,
Lon hadn't
either up until a month ago.
KTQW is owned by Willard Garvey. It's
a Class-A low
power UHF station (pretty much like the station
"Weird
Al" Yankovich goes to work for in the classic
motion
picture "UHF".) You can only pick TV-53 up
if you
DON'T have cable (since those wonderful people
at Cox
say they want to promote local programming
but then
can't find room to squeeze KTQW into their
line-up).
Their scheduling isn't exactly the greatest
in the
world- and I think their broadcast of Wichita
North
High School football games probably brings
in their
biggest ratings... but hey, it's a start.
And since
this station is the hobby of one of the richest
men in
Wichita the station has plenty of state-of-the-art
toys.
If I were to change my major at WSU to communications,
it would take me two years or more to get
through all
the prerequisites before I could get into
the first
class that would let me play with the good
digital
equipment. Two years plus how ever
much money I would
have spent on tuition and fees. Plus
WSU will only
allow their students to use school equipment
for
school projects.
With KTQW I start on the equipment Tuesday.
I am NOT
being paid financially, however I WILL get
something
worthwhile. In addition to the experience
which I can
later take to one of the local network affiliates
to
get a good paying job, for every hour I put
in on a
KTQW project- they will allow me to spend
an hour on
my OWN projects with THEIR full-blown digital
equipment. Mary Knecht- Station Manager-
has already
told me she has NO problem with me taking
the $8k
camera out for the weekend.
http://www.ktqw.com
Yeah, their website is pretty plain, I'm going
to
encourage them to let me redo their site.
Also, at Tuesday mornings staff meeting I
will be
pitching my idea for a "space-based" children's
television program. Mary told me that
Mr. Garvey
wants a kids show but they can't come up
with
anything... Well, let's see how my
overactive
imagination can stir things up a little!
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That's all, see ya later!
Lon
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Mr. Curtright, it's been almost 2 years since
you last
did a story on our film company, last Sunday
we began
shooing a psychological thriller that I wrote
titled
"PIPER". It's intended for local release
followed by
film festival submissions. I will send
you more
information soon.
Mr. Getz, perhaps I can be involved in the
creation of
one of your wonderful columns after all.
But enough small talk... let me get to the
reason for
my e-mail.
As some of you know, my father, stepmother
Susie,
and my younger sisters Katharine (10) and
Nora (4)
all live in New York City, 1 1/2 miles
east of the Twin
Towers, in Brooklyn. They used to live
about two blocks
south of the Towers. I want to assure
those of you who
had wondered about my father and family that
they, for
the most part, are okay.
This is a horrible day in the history of not
only
America, but the entire world. Nobody,
unless they're
literally living under a rock will be able
to forget
this day or where they were as all the events
unfolded.
I have been on top of the Twin Towers once,
and
although I had trouble counting, I believe
that I have
probably been inside the Twin Towers maybe
twenty
times...?
I have enclosed the e-mail sent to me by my
father, a
former Kansan and current New Yorker involving
his
experience with this great tragedy.
Please read on, and pray for those who are
lost or
missing and their families.
=================
Hi. Just wanted to let you know that
we're fine,
although Katharine is a little traumatized
and Susie
and I are exhausted from long hours of work.
The city is still reeling, but considering
what we've
been through, the spirit is amazing....of
course, the
death lists haven' t been published yet.
Given the
nature of the target, and the kind of jobs
held by
many
of the people there, it's fair to say that
our part of
Brooklyn is going to turn out to be pretty
hard hit.
The rumor at Katharine's school before
I took her out
yesterday was that four kids lost at least
one parent.
Some big firms in the WTC apparently lost
hundreds of
employees each.
The police and fire departments
also got
clobbered, of course -- more than 300 dead
firefighters, including several high-ranking
chiefs
and whole companies of elite rescue teams,
and
somewhere around 75 cops.
Previously, of course, the death
of any one cop or
firefighter was a page 1 story.
I watched the whole thing
unfold from the corner
40 paces from my front door. The towers were
a mile
and a half away, but they were so huge we
could see
them very clearly and could make out the
huge holes in
the sides
even with the naked eye. My neighbors started
screaming when they saw the second plane
plow into the
building; it just happened that I had gone
back into
the house to check on Nora or I would have
seen it
too. Poor Hellen
(our babysitter) was watching from the corner
when the
first tower collapsed, and she almost collapsed,
too.
I heard both explosions and also the rumble
of both
collapses. Our house was downwind from the
site and
bits of torn insulation and a fine white
powder, which
I later learned was a coombination of pulverized
concrete and marble and sheetrock, etc.,
fell like
snow, covering the cars and porches with
dust.
The most amazing thing is that
this gigantic
complex of buildings, including two 110-story
towers
that could be seen from anywhere in the city
and that
everyone looked for as a point of reference,
are
simply gone--
wiped off the face of the earth in about
two hours.
All around them, from the edge of our old
neighborhood, Battery Park City, to the foot
of the
Brooklyn Bridge, is littered with debris
and rubble.
And of course in
addition to the possibly thousands dead (we
just don't
know for sure, although it seems there wo
uld have to
be that many), the whole southern third of
Manhattan
Island has been completely shut down -- no
traffic
except emergency and official vehicles, no
one going
in and out of the subways, no stock market,
no Staten
Island Ferry, no one standing in line for
the boat to
the Statue of Liberty.
Love to all, Lon
and family
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Ra-Con
We're only 2 days
away from the Ra-Con Fiction
Convention at the Broadview Hotel in Wichita,
Kansas.
At the Shadow Box Productions Wichita Studio,
Nick is
feverishly editing "Babyface" and at the
Tornado Films
Park City Studio, Lon is feverishly remastering
"The
Handkerchief". Both films will be screened
FIVE times
at the Ra-Con along with "Caffeine" and "Service
Station" (which makes its world premiere
at the
convention).
If any of you can
make it out- great, if not
that's okay. I'm not making any money
off of
screening my flicks there so it won't affect
me at all
if anyone doesn't attend. Especially
since I tend to
do free-to-the-public screenings at Wichita
State
(look for one of those coming up in October
or
November).
If anyone IS coming
to the convention, here is
some basic info:
Convention Dates:
3:00 pm Friday 17 August through
11:59 pm Sunday 19
August.
Three day pass- $29.00
One day pass- $14.00
In addition to the films (they're showing
alot more
than just MY movies) there are also several
seminars,
vendor booths, and even a few celebrities
(Bill Blair
who has been a Klingon, Cardassian, and several
other
aliens on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and
Babylon 5)
and Linda Harrison (Nova) in the original
Planet of
the Apes.
Our four movies will be screened five times:
Friday 5:30pm
Saturday 9:45 am and 2:15 pm
Sunday 1:00 pm and 7:15
pm
I will also be co-hosting a seminar on Film
Making
Basics at 2:15 pm on Saturday.
You can find more information at:
http://www.ra-con.com
"Piper"
Well, what can I say. The script is
about 96% ready
and so are just about everyone involved...
however we
are in a holding pattern as we try to recast
the role
of Erin Healy. Erin was originally
going to be
portrayed by Leslie Ann Teter who dropped
the project
to rehearse and audition for the Wichita
Symphony. So
good luck to Leslie, and good luck to us
in finding a
new Erin.
"Other Projects"
I have about four of five "super-shorts"
(under 10
minutes) that I want to begin shooting in
the fall.
Included in these are "Finals" based on a
short story
by Carrie Latimer and "In the Light of the
Diamond
Shamrock" a sci-fi based short narrative
inspired by
my most recent trip to the Leeker's Grocery
Store in
Park City.
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That's all for now....
Stay tuned to http://tornadofilms.8m.com for
more
info!
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INTRO-
Friends, Family,
and Movie Fans Everywhere,
welcome to another fact filled installment
of the Tornado
Films, LLC newsletter.
Only halfway through the year and it's already
been
nuts...
One of my actors (and
dear friend) committed suicide,
another of my actors (and dear friend) returned
to Wichita
after a one year hiatus, my wife gave birth
to our fourth
child (and newest actor) Avalon Clare Teter,
the Ra-Con
Convention is right around the corner (showing
several of
our movies) and I have less than a month
to finish my audition
for one of television's hottest reality TV
shows! What a year!
FESTIVAL CIRCUIT -
So, last month I
treated you to my excuse for missing
the deadline to enter the KAN Film Festival.
Now I get to
inform you that I've missed the deadline
for the Rhode Island
International Film Festival. Quite
simply, even though I did
recut "Caffeine" and "The Handkerchief",
I wasn't happy with
the quality of "The Handkerchief" recut and
plus there's that
issue of having to pay $40.00 an entry for
the RIIFF. So... I
didn't enter. But, hey, there's always
next year.
UPCOMING PROJECTS-
So, I've been saying
for years that I would love to direct
something that I DIDN'T write. Well,
it finally looks like that's
going to happen. I have been in negotiation
with my good
friend Carrie Latimer (she's a writer!) and
it looks like I'm going
to turn her short story "Finals" about a
girl preparing for her
Advanced Mortuary final exam into a short
film.
YELLOW BRICK ROAD-
I received a letter
from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences informing me that they had received
my screenplay
of "Yellow Brick Road" in their Nicholls
Foundation in Screenwriting
competition. I should hear by the fall
of this year whether or not
my script advances to the finals.
http://www.oscar.org/nicholl
SURVIVOR 4-
So, you're all probably
thinking I'm nuts, but I'm applying to be
a contestant on Survivor 4. I have
until 26 July 2001 to submit my
application and 3 minute max videotape.
The script for my audition
tape has been finished for some time now
and should hopefully go
before the camera in early July.
THE FUTURE-
So, last issue I
mentioned that I'm trying to get a job with a TV
station. At that time I was considering
KSN (our NBC affiliate) or the
UPN. I ended up applying to every television
station in town... CBS,
NBC, ABC, FOX, UPN, PBS, and the WB.
Only NBC called me back
and that was just to say the position was
filled. So, I'm going to send
them all letters again, and keep hounding
them every month until they
get sick of it and hire me. However,
I guess I should avoid KWCH (our
CBS affiliate) since that would disqualify
me from being a contestant on
Survivor.
I have a short script
that is still untitled that is a psychological
murder mystery. After the next rewrite
I hope to send it before
cameras sometime in July or August.
I do still need a lead male
and female...
ALSO---
My former (two different
classes) English Professor has informed
me that his daughter intends to go to the
New York Film Academy
summer program. But before she does
that, he wants to make sure
that she really wants to be a director.
So, has asked me to put her
to work this summer. I gladly accepted,
and will be letting her know
what being a director is like as we hit a
few summer projects.
FINAL WORD-
Well, that's it.
Please visit our webpage, and if you haven't
already... please sign the guestbook.
Thanks,
Lon Christopher Teter
PS- Feel free to forward this to anyone you
want... just please
include a header message that you're sending
it so they don't
think I'm spamming them.
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21 May 2001
This newsletter
is going out to a bunch of you across the globe from
right here in Park City, Kansas.
If you do NOT wish
to receive further e-mails from Tornado Films,
please reply to this message with REMOVE
in the subject line.
INTRO-
Friends, Family,
and Movie Fans Everywhere, welcome to another fact
filled installment of the Tornado Films,
LLC newsletter.
COMPETITION IS LEAVING-
Not that we're even
in the same league as far as movie making is
concerned, (mainly he has investors and I
don't) but my wife has always
teased me about my rivalry with other Wichita
filmmaker Jason Bailey.
Well I learned today during his interview
on 1330 KFH's The Warp Zone radio
show that Memorial Day Weekend, Jason Bailey
is premiering what will be his
FINAL movie in Wichita. He is moving
to New York to attend grad school at
NYU Film School. So, good luck to Jason...
and now hopefully we can catch
some of the Wichita spotlight!
http://www.filmsonconsignment.com/
FESTIVAL CIRCUIT-
KAN
Okay, so I screwed
up. I new the deadline for the KAN Film Festival in
Lawrence, Kansas was 1 May 2001. However,
I thought that it was POSTMARK
deadline and not the IT-HAS-TO-BE-IN-OUR-OFFICE
deadline. So now NONE of
our movies will be entered in this years
KAN. I had even recut "The
Handkerchief" and "Caffeine" as well as finished
the final cut of "Service
Station" all in preparation for that festival.
Oh well, at least I won't
have to worry about being beaten my Jason
Bailey's KAN 2001 entries...
http://www.kanfilmfest.org
RIIFF
I still have by
1 June 2001 to make the deadline for the Rhode Island
International Film Festival to be held this
summer in Providence, Rhode
Island. After careful consideration,
I have chosen to enter the recut
version of "The Handkerchief". It is
the only film I will enter as the
$30.00 entry fee can add up pretty quick.
I chose "The Handkerchief"
because not only is it my best film to date,
but it also takes place in
Rhode Island.
http://www.film-fetival.org
RA-CON
We're two months
away from the Ra-Con Fiction Convention to be held in
Wichita, Kansas 17-19 August 2001.
"Service Station" will make its world
premiere there along with showings of "The
Handkerchief", "Caffeine", and
Nicholas Engle's "Babyface".
http://www.ra-con.com
YELLOW BRICK ROAD-
I still consider
this drama about an Irish Catholic family to be my
best screenplay ever, even though it failed
to advance in the Project
Greenlight contest. Currently, I have
submitted the screenplay to the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Nicholl Fellowship in
Screenwriting. There it stand a chance
to win me a $30,000 fellowship to
take a year off of work and write.
http://www.oscar.org/nicholl
The screenplay is
also being read and reviewed by Kelly Garrett of
Stephanie Germain Productions, Sony Pictures
Studio in Culver City,
California. Big special thanks to Kodi
Wilson for putting me in
contact with Kelly.
If you would like
to read "Yellow Brick Road" just e-mail us back and
let us know. The script is 98 pages
long in Industry Standard format and
saved as a Microsoft Word document.
The screenplay is registered with both
the Writer's Guild of America West and the
copyright office of the United
States of America Library of Congress.
THE FUTURE-
My summer is still
a little hazy. I'm attempting to get a job at
either KSCC-TV (The UPN Kansas) or at KSNW-TV
3. I'm not sure what that
will do to my schedule, but I want to shoot
at least two films this
summer. I'm considering rewriting my
sci-fi short film "Time" for one of
the summer movies. I'm still not sure
on the other... Anyway, I'm always
looking for 'fresh meat' to be in my flicks.
Speaking of which, Chris
McLean has expressed interest in being in
one of my next movies. He's the
only visitor of our website so far to respond
to the request for actors.
If any of you are interested, just let us
know.
THAT'S ALL FOLKS-
Oops, I shouldn't
have used that quote... Knowing what big bullies
Warner Brothers are they'll probably try
to sue me now. Oh well, I could
use the publicity. Anyway, that's all
for this exciting fact filled
newsletter. Please visit our webpage
for any information that you need.
And if you haven't already... please sign the guestbook.
Thanks,
Lon Christopher Teter
PS- Feel free to forward this to anyone you
want... just please include a
header message that you're sending it so
they don't think I'm spamming them.
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In light of our recent
success with our movies being shown at a local
science fiction convention (coming up this
August), and with us about to
submit movies to the KAN Film Fest in Lawrence,
Kansas and the Rhode
Island International Film Festival in Providence,
Rhode Island, and about to
submit our screenplay "Yellow Brick Road"
to the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences Nichols Fellowship award,
we are suddenly struck with
tragedy.
Back in April of
1995, when we were still Brooklyn Cinema, we were
beginning a "mockumentary" about Kansas called
"Kansas: The Dark Rainbow"
starring Jason Whitley as Montie Lake Jones,
a talk show host who uncovered
all the scandalous occurences here in the
Sunflower State. One of the
people that would be interviewed by Mr. Jones
was a pimp by the name of
Tiller G. Tiller G was played by a
very dear friend of mine whom I'd met
earlier that month named Ken Bolden.
Ken, a Combat Arms
Training and Maintenance instructor in the United
States Air Force went on to play Mike Griffith
in the second attempt at
filming "Noir", and was also cast to play
Bob Boulder (based on himself)
in several screenplays by Lon Christopher
Teter including "A Seed of Doubt",
based on when the USAF attempted to screw
Ken, myself (playing Kirby
O'Donnell), and our best friend Jason Whitley
(playing Majik Caulfield- a
role he'd reprise for our "The Devil's Majik
Episode IV: Majik Goes to
Hell"), "Adrenaline", and "The Devil's Majik
Episode VI: Bob, Kirby, and
Majik."
It is with a heavy
heart that I announce that my dear friend Ken
Bolden, who just turned 26 last month, commited
suicide last weekend.
Ken hailed from the
small berg of Salem, New York and came to Wichita
via the USAF. He became part of our
family after racing one of our best
friends, Ian "Bam-Bam" Phillips. Still
being relatively new to Wichita, and
not having many friends here, he came out
and partied with us for two weeks
straight that Spring. He even came
to Easter with my family and I. The
rest, as they say, is history. Ken
affected many lives over the past 6
years that he lived in Wichita.
He always joked with
me that he couldn't wait for us to finally finish
a movie. Of all the projects I slated
for him, the only one he actually
shot anything for was the voice of Mike Griffith
on an answering machine
message in "Noir" (the second attempt).
Very few of you receiving
this e-mail knew Ken. Obviously, my
immediate family, as well as Jason "Majik"
Whitley, Ian "Bam-Bam" Phillips,
and Sean "El Gato" Cullinane, remember him.
Some of you may remember him
and not even realize it. Jessica, the
night I met Lara, when you were
talking on the phone briefly with a friend
of mine who was "stuck on base".
That was Ken.
I guess I'd have
to say that only about 7-8 out of the 50 people I'm
e-mailing remember Ken, or at least know
who he was (he was the guy my age-
with the curly hair and broken nose, who
wore a solid black suit to my
wedding). For the rest of you, I just
want you to understand what you've
missed out on. Ken had a natural charisma
about him that would have gone
over real well in our movies.
The attached picture
is from the reception at our wedding. Second to
the left is Ken Bolden, all in black (before
Regis made it popular). He
stands between Jason Whitley on the right,
and Ken's live-in girlfriend- and
mother of his two children- Danieca on the
left. To the right of Jason is Brent
"Gumby" Kingsland, another one of our old
crew.
Thank you for your
time. Our prayers are with Ken, his family his
children, and he looks down on us from the
heavens with his broken nose and
trademark smirk.
Ken, I have a shot
of Wild Turkey 101 waiting for you at McNamara's
Pub. Come home, dude.
Lon Christopher Teter
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Now for the good news.....
First, a big thank
you to Justin Sowden of JK Pyrotechnics (they blew
up the computer in our short film "Caffeine").
He gave me a little
information about a science fiction convention
that will be in the Wichita
area in August. I contacted the convention
management and next thing I knew
Tornado Films is now a part of this convention.
That's right!
It's the Ra-Con 2k.1
to be held at the Clarion Airport Hotel in
Wichita, Kansas August 17-19 2001.
Among lots of other interesting things
at this convention, guests will be treated
to a public viewing of our
films "Caffeine" starring Nathan Schultz,
and "The Handkerchief" starring
Mark Lewis and Stephanie Anderson.
They also want me to show "The Devil's
Majik Episode IV: Majik Goes to Hell".
They also would like
me (and I'm sure Nick) to help administer a class
on film making! This is too cool!!
For more info on
the Ra-Con, visit their webpage at:
http://www.ra-con.com
The second big news
is that a rough edit of "Service Station" starring
(alphabetically) Craig Abbott, Sean "El Gato"
Cullinane, Christopher Engle,
and Mark Kostlan is NOW FINISHED. It
is only a rough edit, but its a
completed film nonetheless. It just
needs
some last minute tinkering and
some slow, melancholy, original music for
the opening and closing credits.
So if anybody has some suggestions--- I'm
open to them.
Once again, this
is all too $#*&ing cool for words! And... since it's
now 4:20 am and I have school in six hours,
I'm going to bed.
Lon Christopher Teter
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First of all, I need
to make a correction from the last newsletter.
Towards the end I mentioned that Bain owned
Arista Entertainment (which I
believe is a recording studio). What
I MEANT to say, was that Bain owns
Artisan Entertainment, the indie-production
studio that released the
original "Blair Witch Project."
And now, the current news...
Over at our partner
studio, Shadow Box Productions, Nicholas J. Engle
has finished shooting "Babyface" starring
Molly Elizabeth Teter ("The
Handkerchief") and Lon Christopher Teter.
Soon it will be all
pieced together.
Lon Christopher Teter
has finished shooting "Service Station" starring
Mark Kostlan, Craig Abbott, Christopher S.
Engle ("The Handkerchief"), and
Sean "El Gato" Cullinane. Soon it,
too, will be all pieced together. Look
for extensive production stills in the Media
section of our webpage (link
below).
"Corporate Dreams"
update: DeAnna Winkler (who starred in our 1999
"Carry On") has answered the casting call
and will be portraying Karla in
"Corporate Dreams". However, filming
on this short films hasn't commenced
yet and things are getting tight as Ken Williams
("The Handkerchief")
(whom the part of Fred was written for in
early 2000) leaves in early April
to move to Turkey. All of us at Tornado
Films wish Ken the best of luck,
and hopefully we can finish filming before
he leaves. The film also stars
Steve Abbott and Scott Laird Wichael.
Festival Information:
Hopefully Lon will
have "Service Station" pieced together soon. He
hopes to enter it, along with a re-edited
"Caffeine" and "The Handkerchief"
in this year's Rhode Island International
Film Festival this summer in
Providence, Rhode Island. Though we
haven't confirmed it with the
representatives of Shadow Box Productions,
it can be assumed that Nicholas
will enter "Babyface" in this same festival.
Our next premiere:
Everything is still
up in the air, but Lon would like to a free public
viewing of the movies on the Wichita State
University campus, soon. It
would be ideal to shoot for May, before finals
week (when everbody becomes
insane). However, this time things
are going to be locked down as tight as
a frog's you-know-what. I'm sure some
of you who attended our Fall 1999
premiere of "Three Short Films" remember
how WSU's Media Resources Center
nearly ruined our first premiere. If
everything becomes planned out and we
have a go for the next premiere we will be
sending out a Press Release to
The Wichita Eagle (which thanks to Bob Curtright's
article two years ago we
had a pretty decent turnout for the 1999
showing) as well as the Wichita
State University Sunflower, KWCH, KAKE, KSNW,
and KFH 1330 am. We also hope
to get a spot on KFH's "The Warp Zone" Sunday
afternoon talk show (hey,
it works for Bailey).
One last note:
An extra big special
thanks to Kodi Wilson in Illinois who forwarded
our last newsletter to a friend of hers working
for a producer in Hollywood.
BE SURE TO VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AND SIGN THAT
GUESTBOOK!
The link is at the bottom of this newsletter.
Also, the webpage has been
COMPLETELY redesigned.
Once again, if you feel that you no longer
wish to receive these e-mail
newsletters, reply to this message with REMOVE
in the subject line. There
will be no hard feelings, we know what its
like to receive a constant
bombardment of e-mails.
However, if you enjoy learning more about
our projects, let us know. And
feel free to forward this to as MANY
people as you want to. Just please
try to include your own heading before the
body of the message letting them
know that you chose to send this and it isn't
spam on the part of our
production company.
By, the way, if any of you have access to either-
A) Know somebody who works for Flower Films
(Drew Barrymore's production
company) you may consider forwarding this
on to them (I have a screenplay
written specifically for Drew to executive
produce and star in).
or
B) Know somebody with too much money who's
looking to invest in the film
industry- specifically a small indie production
company with little capital
and lots of great ideas, feel free to forward
this
on to them.
Thank you.
Lon Christopher Teter
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It's official!
Spring Break is nearing and Lon and Nick are planning
on shooting at least TWO short films over
Spring Break.
The first one is
"Babyface" written and directed by Nicholas J. Engle.
This film, which poses the question: Just
how young are the perpetrators of
youth violence? stars Molly Elizabeth Teter
and Lon Christopher Teter.
The second one is
"Corporate Dreams" written and directed by Lon
Christopher Teter. This film stars
Ken Williams, Scott Wichael, and a
as-yet-to-be-named female lead and deals
with one of those days where you
only THINK that you've woken up for a big
day at work. We're still looking
for a female who would be willing to kiss
Ken Williams (which is just about
most of the women that I know) and to have
a NON-NUDE (I stress NON-NUDE)
from the neck up shower scene with Ken.
E-mail if you're interested. You
MUST be at least eighteen years old.
Nick and I have plenty
more screenplays that are ready to go... however
we're limited on time and people. If
you would like to be in one of our
movies, e-mail us back ASAP! Some of
the other projects in the pipeline
include a metaphorical drama about how men
really feel about their cars, a
psychotic stalker thriller, and a drama that
follows the life of a piece of
currency.
For more information,
feel free to e-mail us back. Currently NONE of
these projects are listed on our webpage
as we're trying to maintain a low
profile until we're ready to go public again.
Once again, if you
feel that you no longer wish to receive these e-mail
newsletters, reply to this message with REMOVE
in the subject line. There
will be no hard feelings, we know what its
like to receive a constant
bombardment of e-mails.
However, if you enjoy
learning more about our projects, let us know.
And feel free to forward this to as MANY
people as you want to. Just please
try to include your own heading before the
body of the message letting them
know that you chose to send this and it isn't
spam on the part of our
production company.
By, the way, if any of you have access to either-
A) Somebody with a connection in the film
industry (and I might mention that
Bain owns Artisan Entertainment) you may
consider forwarding this on to
them.
B) Know somebody who works for Flower Films
(Drew Barrymore's production
company) you may consider forwarding this
on to them (I have a screenplay
written specifically for Drew to executive
produce and star in).
or
C) Know somebody with too much money who's
looking to invest in the film
industry- specifically a small indie production
company with little capital
and lots of great ideas, feel free to forward
this on to them.
Thank you.
Lon Christopher Teter
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