CRYING ON CUE

An actor weeps

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FRANKIES

NEW VID ALERT: Some buds & I secretly shot a short film inside of a diner.

It’s been a while since I shot anything guerilla (ie. no budget, no permission), so when my buddy @AhrenBrunow showed me footage that he had shot on his Google Pixel, I started brainstorming ideas that we could shoot in a stolen location. The end result is a love-letter to my favourite greasy spoon in all of Toronto,…

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UNCAGED

I love rasslin’, so getting my foot in the door with IMPACT Wrestling was my 2018 dream come true. ✨

Today, we’re kicking off 2019 right w/ this short doc I had the pleasure of cutting together, which profiles “The Machine” Brian Cage:

Rasslin!

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YEAR IN REVIEW: '18

YEAR IN REVIEW: ’18

I spent my 2017 focused on one thing: shooting as much as I possibly could. Through the year, I made my money in advertising and immediately invested it into personal projects which were shot with low-budgets, stolen locations, and talented friends lending their time (not to mention: gear).

At the beginning of 2018, when I looked back on the stuff that I had made the year prior, I was super…

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GRAVE CONCERNS It’s now been three years since I moved to Toronto and decided to pursue filmmaking as my sole focus.

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SLAM DOC

I always knew what I wanted to be when I grew up: a professional wrestler.

Immediately after graduating high school, I sold my car, moved to Moncton, New Brunswick and began my training in the squared circle (under Peter Smith AKA Brody Steele). Unfortunately for my hopes & dreams, my small and fragile body (bad knees, bad back) was not built for a life between the ropes.

Fast-forward to the…

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RETURN TO PARIS

A few weeks back, I borrowed a friend’s camera to familiarize myself a bit more with camera-operation — I ended up following my beautiful mini-dachshund Wren [AKA Wrenegade AKA @Wren.TheWeenie] around for the day.

I didn’t really have any ideas for what I could do with the footage until I heard this vintage French culture / music mixtape by Starfunkel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDBuYykGyM

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GRAVE CONCERNS @ AFF

GRAVE CONCERNS @ AFF

It is a gosh-darn privilege to have my work return to Nova Scotian screens later this month as GRAVE CONCERNS plays FIN Atlantic International Film Festival.

Screenings (Shorts Program 3): Saturday, Sept. 15, 3:30PM at Park Lane, Theatre 8 Tuesday, Sept. 18, 9:10PM at Park Lane, Theatre 2

The short, about two gravediggers (played by Tim Walker and Jeff Hanson) toiling away in the wild west, was…

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WORLDSTARRR

The last update to this now-decrepit cyberspace was damn near six months ago — a shameful amount of time for anyone wishing to stay relevant in today’s digital carousel.

Why the radio silence? Well, as opposed to 2017 where I was focused on simply cutting my teeth by shooting as much as possible (2017 Year in Review), this year I’ve been focusing on trying to take that next step in my filmmaking…

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YEAR IN REVIEW

In 2016, I watched Mark Duplass‘ SXSW keynote address, “The Cavalry Isn’t Coming“, and it immediately slapped me upside the head.

In the talk, Duplass rightfully points out that many of the obstacles facing filmmakers twenty years ago are now gone, and that there’s no excuse for filmmakers (especially up & coming) to not be kicking out content.

Twelve months later, I have written & directed four…

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Ladies & gentlemen! My holiday gift to you: my very first feature film screenplay, WRESTLE ISLAND (PDF download), which tells the story of a small maritime island being invaded by an army of professional wrestlers.

Another gift: I teamed up with illustrator-extraordinaire, James Edward Clark, to help bring a few scenes from the script to life:

So why am I just dumping this thing onto the internet?

This film stands very little chance of ever getting made due to the many, many millions of dollars that it would likely cost to pull it off — this is essentially the film I would make if Hollywood ever gave me a blank cheque to go shoot a movie in Nova Scotia.

As such, I’d very much love to share this script with anyone out there who’s interested enough to read it. I think I cooked up something fun here and I hope you agree.

WRESTLE ISLAND (PDF download): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hn9C_e5L1NUUuDpuyrg5BJpECppFe8Oy/

Happy reading & happy holidays, y’all.

Wrestle forever. ❤

WRESTLE ISLAND Ladies & gentlemen! My holiday gift to you: my very first feature film screenplay, WRESTLE ISLAND…

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RED BULL 30 YEARS

Earlier this year, through a random late night Google binge, I discovered that Red Bull was founded in Austria in 1987. I found it interesting that the youthful brand had been around for so long and I immediately began brainstorming ideas for a 30-second spec ad that combined those two opposing elements (age with vitality) while celebrating Red Bull’s 30 years in business.

https://vimeo.com/247…

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CURLING CANADA   Thanks to my friends at Clark Stanley Inc., I had the pleasure of travelling to Regina, Saskatchewan last month to direct a series of promos for…

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Shout out to my buddy Dan Jardine who recently snapped a few pics of my smug mug for promotional purposes. Dan runs Boom Shoal Enterprises, a Toronto-based photography & film production company. Check his stuff out @ http://www.boomshoal.com/ ❤

FACE PICS Shout out to my buddy Dan Jardine who recently snapped a few pics of my smug mug for promotional purposes.

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#TBT: GLEN VS. WRESTLERS Here's a quick clip from 2013, where I was raising funds for my pro-rasslin' short film, …

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SPACE MONKEY (1MIN CUT):

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WHITE SAVIOR

This past week I had the absolute pleasure of taking part in my first unofficial 48-hour film fest. It wasn’t really a 48-hour film fest, I just didn’t find out about the damn thing (TIFF Shorts Fest) until last Tuesday, and submissions were due Sunday at midnight.

We shot Friday morning and I spent my weekend slumped over a laptop (I have very poor posture) and I’m pretty dang happy with the…

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In the name of science, the Canadian Space Agency sent thousands of chimpanzees on ill-fated voyages to the stars. Not even science could explain what happened next…

This project was the most fun I’ve ever had making films. Honestly, if I could pair up with awesome pro-wrestlers to make kickass origin stories for the rest of my life, I would be a very happy man.

Growing up, my dream was to become a professional wrestler, so working together with Space Monkey, a wrestler whose work I legitimately love, has been a tremendous privilege for this lifelong rasslin’ fan.

Please enjoy. <3

https://youtu.be/aL60b4zxxtg

Stills courtesy of Britt Edwards:

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CAST Space Monkey – Confidential The Scientist – Dan Sanderson Voiceover – Jake Thurgood

CREW: Glen Matthews – Writer / Director / Editor Mark Corless – Director of Photography Steve Cutler – Assistant Director / Steadycam Op. Adam T. Burke – Audio Technician Petra O’Toole – Production Assistant Britt Edwards – Set Stills Brendan Henry – Visual Composition Nathan Boone – Assistant Editor Alina Sechkin – Pixel Art Werner Mueck – Space Monkey Illustration Featuring “Horse Blood” by Judge Bitch & Original Score by Jason O’Brien Thanks to Adam Massey, Tim Corrigan, Matt Sutherland, Landon Morris & Eric Konecne

SPACE MONKEY ORIGINS In the name of science, the Canadian Space Agency sent thousands of chimpanzees on ill-fated voyages to the stars.