You Are in Bedford, Man
You Are in Bedford, Man
Rex Ripper is the legendary prodigy of the heavy metal band DevilBreath. Thirty years later, he's a broken man who's just been fired by his own band. With the help of a (possibly) dead groupie, Rex rediscovers what's really important in life.
Rex Ripper is the legendary prodigy of the heavy metal band DevilBreath. Thirty years later, he's a broken man who's just been fired by his own band. With the help of a (possibly) dead groupie, Rex rediscovers what's really important in life.
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About The Project
You Are in Bedford, Man began as an educational project. As a professor at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, I was working with a group of graduate cinematographers. The project was simple: we got some rolls of 35mm film, a grip truck, some lights and a Panavision camera. It was only supposed to be an exercise. But as a producer with a decade of experience, I learned you never let 35mm film go to waste.
I called in favors to professional actors. I recruited the producing team from my current feature Simple Kind of Man. I got a great deal on a hotel. The result was You Are in Bedford, and I went through all the extra effort in order to show my students how imagination and a little resourcefulness can always exceed expectations.
This project was supposed to be fun, so I wrote a comedy. But like any good comedy, there's a serious message below. You end up where you want to end up. As nasty, bitter Rex dreams in the middle of the night with the spaced-out hippie Cat, these are two characters who are products of their choices. The dilemmas they find themselves are in no small measure a product of their own making. For better or worse, they are who they are, consequences be damned.
Incentives
$10
A donation of $10 will get you heart THANK YOU, for all the world to see in our credits. Emblazoned in the fanciest of fonts over Marshall McDaniel's classical score, you shall be forever associated with heavy metal royalty! You'll also be invited to our donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Wowza!$25
A donation of $25 is a special thing. It's like first class on an airplane, without the special bathroom, champagne or flying anywhere. But it is still special, make no mistake:
• a SPECIAL THANKS in the credits.
• A Blu-Ray/Standard DVD of You Are in Bedford, Man.
• Invite to a donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Huzzah!
$40
A donation of $40 ain't even first class...you're flying the plane now:
• Top billing SPECIAL THANKS in the credits.
• Invitation to a donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Turn it to 11!
• A "vintage" DevilBreath t-shirt with the band's original logo. These haven't been seen since the guys opened for Deep Purple during the "'81 Wales and Wales Only" tour. A rare, rare find.*
*please indicate your size, rocker.$75
A donation of $75 means only one thing: we have to give you some metal. There's no way around it. It's metal you demand, and it's metal you shall get. In the form of a super-secret, donors only concert from all-female, all-powerful Black Sabbitch. This Black Sabbath cover band will melt your face with some Iron Man, NIB, Snowblind and other devastating Sabbath hits. This concert will be held in early December 2014, so get some old fashion doom and terror under your stocking!
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$200
OK OK...maybe you've got enough heavy metal in your life. We get it (not really). We understand (weird). So how about this: a donation of $200 will get you your own original cello composition from our Composer Marshall McDaniel:
• Original cello composition for you, your spouse, your flying V guitar...
• An ASSISTANT PRODUCER CREDIT
• Invite to donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Ayss of Spaydzzz!
Marshall's no ordinary cello man. The man's a prodigy, like Yngwie Malmsteen but on the cello (and less of a d**k). He's composed and led chamber groups in both the U.S. and Germany, studied under the masters of the instrument. He is a master of the instrument, damn it.
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$250
Alright, we'll do this one. Maybe all the heavy metal and t-shirts and happy, smiling kids ain't enough for you. Maybe you're trying to make your own movie. OK, that's cool...we just hope it's about heavy metal.
Anyway, Writer/Director Justin Wolske will pre-produce one lucky person's short project (up to 30 min.). He will deliver:
• Script Breakdown, Shooting Schedule and Production Budget
• Full consultation on building Production Binder
• ASSOCIATE PRODUCER CREDIT
• Invite to donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Alcoholica!
Justin Wolske is a professional producer who has produced for MTV, Reebok, AOL, Crunchyroll and many other companies around the world. He teaches the subject of line producing at a graduate level. He does this stuff all the time. He should probably get back to it.
Claimed: 0 of 1
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$10
A donation of $10 will get you heart THANK YOU, for all the world to see in our credits. Emblazoned in the fanciest of fonts over Marshall McDaniel's classical score, you shall be forever associated with heavy metal royalty! You'll also be invited to our donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Wowza!$25
A donation of $25 is a special thing. It's like first class on an airplane, without the special bathroom, champagne or flying anywhere. But it is still special, make no mistake:
• a SPECIAL THANKS in the credits.
• A Blu-Ray/Standard DVD of You Are in Bedford, Man.
• Invite to a donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Huzzah!
$40
A donation of $40 ain't even first class...you're flying the plane now:
• Top billing SPECIAL THANKS in the credits.
• Invitation to a donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Turn it to 11!
• A "vintage" DevilBreath t-shirt with the band's original logo. These haven't been seen since the guys opened for Deep Purple during the "'81 Wales and Wales Only" tour. A rare, rare find.*
*please indicate your size, rocker.$75
A donation of $75 means only one thing: we have to give you some metal. There's no way around it. It's metal you demand, and it's metal you shall get. In the form of a super-secret, donors only concert from all-female, all-powerful Black Sabbitch. This Black Sabbath cover band will melt your face with some Iron Man, NIB, Snowblind and other devastating Sabbath hits. This concert will be held in early December 2014, so get some old fashion doom and terror under your stocking!
Claimed: 0 of 50
$200
OK OK...maybe you've got enough heavy metal in your life. We get it (not really). We understand (weird). So how about this: a donation of $200 will get you your own original cello composition from our Composer Marshall McDaniel:
• Original cello composition for you, your spouse, your flying V guitar...
• An ASSISTANT PRODUCER CREDIT
• Invite to donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Ayss of Spaydzzz!
Marshall's no ordinary cello man. The man's a prodigy, like Yngwie Malmsteen but on the cello (and less of a d**k). He's composed and led chamber groups in both the U.S. and Germany, studied under the masters of the instrument. He is a master of the instrument, damn it.
Claimed: 0 of 3
$250
Alright, we'll do this one. Maybe all the heavy metal and t-shirts and happy, smiling kids ain't enough for you. Maybe you're trying to make your own movie. OK, that's cool...we just hope it's about heavy metal.
Anyway, Writer/Director Justin Wolske will pre-produce one lucky person's short project (up to 30 min.). He will deliver:
• Script Breakdown, Shooting Schedule and Production Budget
• Full consultation on building Production Binder
• ASSOCIATE PRODUCER CREDIT
• Invite to donors-only screening of You Are in Bedford, Man in early 2015. Alcoholica!
Justin Wolske is a professional producer who has produced for MTV, Reebok, AOL, Crunchyroll and many other companies around the world. He teaches the subject of line producing at a graduate level. He does this stuff all the time. He should probably get back to it.
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Current Team
About This Team
JUSTIN WOLSKE (Producer/Director/Writer/Editor)
Justin runs The Royal Institute for Picture Quality, a media production consultancy and services company, and is one half of the creative agency Standard|Royal. Standard|Royal has consulted, produced, directed and/or shot feature films, television and short content for companies like MTV, Paramount Pictures, Nike, Reebok, AOL, Malibu Rum, Sony, Pepsi and many others.
The first feature he produced, Savage County (MTV New Media), premiered on national television in 2010. The second feature, Girl with No Number (Bigfoot Studios), will be released internationally in 2013. He also served as 2nd Unit Director on both. Justin earned his MFA in Film Directing at University of California, Los Angeles, and his writing and directing work has competed in festivals such as Shanghai and MethodFest, while winning awards from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the CINE Foundation and Elektra Records’ Jim Morrison Fund.
MELANIE RECKER (Producer)
After a year in the mid-market sales division of intel giant, InfoGroup, and five years in sales and marketing directorships at smaller firms, Mel now makes her living primarily as an actress, although she continues to freelance in graphic design and social media management. Mel is a native Canadian, but she grew up in Nebraska.
Recent acting credits include roles in Adam Coplan’s It’s Dark Here and several award-winning short films. Other recent producing credits include the forthcoming web series My Sister and I. Mel has as BA in Theatre from the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
EHREN PARKS (Producer)
Ehren's written work was most recently seen on ESPN Sport Science and Stunt Busters on the Speed Channel. His TV producing credits include work for ESPN, SyFy, TruTV, Speed and NatGeo. He also serves as co-captain of the documentary programming committee for the Slamdance Film Festival. Ehren produced the low-budget horror film, The Wretched, and continues to produce The Dead Hour, an on-going web-series, with an emphasis in marketing and distribution.
He holds dual MFAs from UCLA (Screenwriting) and The New School (Creative Writing-Fiction) – where he studied under Robert Polito, editor of the Library of America's Noir Fiction collections and biographer of Jim Thompson. He was a Peter Kiewit and Regents’ scholar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he earned a bachelor’s in Broadcasting. -
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