How does a wannabe director get that big break behind the camera? Well, Kirk Sullivan is in Colombia prepping his feature directing debut on the tentatively titled The Dead Men, a thriller about an American traveling in Colombia who becomes involved with a group that lives in an abandoned hospital with a haunted past. Every path to the director’s chair is different, but Sullivan’s came from hustling six years, until he was lucky enough to be Joel Silver‘s assistant and plucky enough to raise money to make a short film, The Come Up, as a calling card (check it out below). After graduating from USC in 2006 (on his third attempt to get into the cinematic arts and production program), he worked as a production assistant, sound guy, camera guy, assistant to Lincoln Lawyer producer Brad Furman, and then assistant to the line producer on Silver’s film The Losers.
- 3/19/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
It's not easy breaking into the entertainment business in Hollywood. It either take a lot of hard work, or you simply just know somebody. Here's a great short film called The Come Up, that follows an ambitious production assistant who "pulls off a daring heist on a Hollywood film set in a scheme right out of the movies, all to impress the industry’s biggest producer while (of course) pitching his screenplay in the process."
The movie was directed by Kirk Sullivan and it turned out really entertaining, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it! Thanks to Film School Rejects for the find!
The Come Up from kirk sullivan on Vimeo.
The movie was directed by Kirk Sullivan and it turned out really entertaining, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it! Thanks to Film School Rejects for the find!
The Come Up from kirk sullivan on Vimeo.
- 3/3/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
If you want to make it in Hollywood, you often have to start at the bottom before you can work your way to the top. One of the lowest jobs on the totem pole is a production assistant, or "Pa," and it's his or her job to do the grunt work that nobody else wants to do: coffee runs, lunch orders, heavy lifting, etc. Film School Rejects found a great short film called The Come Up, which is a pretty accurate depiction of what being a Pa is like until, in a clever twist, it takes a hard turn into into a chase/heist film, using some of the real studio backlots as sets. This is a must-watch for anyone who has worked in the industry. Check it out below! Watch Kirk Sullivan's full short film The Come Up, found via Film School Rejects: I've worked as a production...
- 3/1/2013
- by Ben Pearson
- firstshowing.net
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