Finite Films

I am pleased to announced that after a long production process and a successful premiere at the United Film Festival – Los Angeles, Imperfect has now premiered online! We’re excited about this one because it’s very different than our previous films–strongly influenced by the constraint “Must be in the style of a 40′s noir.” We [...]

Last night Imperfect had its big screen premiere at the United Film Festival – Los Angeles! It was a wonderful night, we had a great turnout and so much incredible support from our friends and family here in LA. Thanks to everyone who came out and made our night so special! For everyone who couldn’t [...]

After a very, very long day…and night…and another day of editing, our upcoming film Imperfect is now picture-locked. This means, whatever happens from this point forward in post-production, the visual edit of the film is finalized. This is by NO means the end of the post-production process, however. In fact, picture-locking is just the beginning. [...]

Hello everyone! Happy 4/21! 4/21 is a special day for Finite Films, because most of our films feature the number “421″ as a kind of easter egg for those who know about it. So today, we’ve decided to turn it into a little game. If you are the first person to find the “421″s in [...]

This week we received some exciting news from the United Film Festival – Los Angeles: they’re going to showcase three of our films on the big screen here in LA! Come join us the first ever theater screenings of You Are Here and Occupational Hazards, followed by the WORLD PREMIERE of Imperfect! The event will [...]

Hey everyone! It’s been a busy week here at Finite Films since we premiered Lovebound: Love Abounds. I spent the week furiously storyboarding Imperfect so that we could start planning out how we’re going to get all the 180+ shots involved. Our team has been working very hard to get everything ready for the first [...]

Our first out-and-out comedy, Lovebound: Love Abounds, has premiered! I’d like to give a big special thanks to our post-production crew, including our visual effects supervisor David Sims, composer Aaron Gentry, and sound editor Daniel Clark. In the last week they’ve worked tirelessly to ensure the project was something they would be proud to put [...]

Hey gang, Our kookiest comedy yet, Lovebound: Love Abounds, is currently in post-production. We’re imminently locking picture and are going to try our hardest to turn around the final product a week or so from now. Until then, here is a hodgepodge of stills to tide you over, the first of which are direct screen [...]

The results are in! Here are the official constraints for our June Film: • The entire internet goes down. All of it, nobody has internet. – Eric B. • Someone is about to remember everything they forgot, in a rush, and it’s not going to be pleasant. – Josh T. • Someone is about to [...]

Hey everyone! Voting is officially open for the next film Ryan will be directing, to be released in June. Will the internet go down everywhere as someone is about to go to a Renaissance Fair, or will there be a scene shot as a time lapse of a character who hates Marilyn Monroe? YOU decide! [...]

Hey Gang, While Anamnesis was in its final post-production push, we were also working on pre-production for our March-release film I am directing.  Last Sunday marked our first day of production.  The title?   Lovebound: Love Abounds. Lovebound: Love Abounds is our first all-out comedy, and a very silly one at that.  Check out the synopsis [...]

Finite Films spends a day at Joshua Tree to film a scene for Anamnesis.

After a lot of late nights, and a lot of incredible work from some very talented people, I’m pleased to present Finite Film’s first production of 2012, Anamnesis! Making this movie was a really intense, wonderful experience. Thank you SO much to everyone who made it possible (you know who you are)! We’ll be posting [...]

The people have spoken–here are the official constraints for our May Film: • One character loves knock knock jokes. – Deborah • One character has an ambiguous sexual orientation, and no one can figure out if they are gay or straight. – Eric Y. • Someone is about to set fire to lots and lots [...]

Gizmodo.com featured Finite Films on their site today! Thanks to Jesus Diaz for the great write-up! Check out the article here: http://gizmodo.com/5880436/these-people-will-make-any-movie-you-tell-them-to-do

Hey everyone! Voting is officially open for the next film Alex will be directing, to be released in May. Will one character love ribbon dancing while having an ambiguous sexual orientation, or will the entire movie take place in one day and contain a shot from a previous Finite Film? The combinations are endless! (There [...]

Hi Everyone! This week we wrapped principal photography on Finite’s February Film, Anamensis. We still have a pick-up shoot next week, and some visual effects elements to figure out, but the main bulk of filming has wrapped–and it went extremely well! Finite Films has really become a well-oiled machine after our sometimes tumultuous first year. [...]

Hey everyone! We’re back! Well, we never really left. We’ve been working this whole time, but we shifted our focus a bit to enjoy the holidays. It was a nice semi-break, but now it’s back to full throttle. Alex was writing the entire time, and is now in full-on production mode on February Film, also [...]

Well, the constraints are in for April Film, and here’s what you guys chose: • The main character never speaks a line of dialogue. – Freddie A. • Must be in the style of a 40′s noir. – Olivia • A supernatural being/non-human must masquerade as a human. – Dan B. • One of the [...]

Hey everyone! I hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday season! Voting is officially open for the next film I’ll be directing, to be released in April. Will it be about a supernatural non-human living in a community garden told in the style of a 40′s noir? Or will it be about a character who [...]

Season’s Greetings! Our latest film, Mistletoe, has premiered! This one was a bit of a wild ride and took a lot of work to make it happen in such a short time, but here it is! I think we were able to pack in a sufficient amount of holiday cheer. This is our last film [...]

Hello all! We have just finished yet another crazy shoot, and now filming for the Holiday Film is wrapped. This film has been kind of a crazy saga, as the original script had to be abandoned due to conflicting schedules and lack of time. The result is the fastest-produced film so far. The first draft [...]

It’s 7:30am as I sit down to write this blog post. I’ve been awake since around 9:00am, yesterday. But it’s okay, because after a 16-hour final push to perfect the music and sound, I am pleased to present Occupational Hazards. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the incredible cast & crew behind this movie. [...]

Hey Everyone! The last couple weeks have been a bit of a blur for me, as we’ve been working non-stop shooting–and now editing–Occupational Hazards. I’m very excited about this one; it’s shaping up really nicely. Right now we’re prepping the film for color, music, sound design, and aiming for a release early next week. In [...]

Hey everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving! Voting is officially open for the next film I’ll be directing, to be released March 1st. I may have to make my first Finite Films short where nobody dies, per the constraint “No one can die.” Is it going to be a surrealist film about a sex therapist trying to [...]

Huge thanks to Film School Rejects for making Forest Falls their Short Film Of The Day, and for their kind words regarding Finite Films! Check it out: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/short-film-forest-falls-finite-films.php

If you’re visiting Finite-Films.com tonight, you may notice that our next film, Occupational Hazards, has at last moved from Pre-Production to In Production! This is particularly exciting, because Occupational Hazards has been in “Pre-Production” for a looong time–ever since you first voted for its seven constraints way back in July. This film was originally scheduled [...]

Hey all! I’m off writing, Alex is off directing, and Ryan has just finished putting together the video that demonstrates how the constraints you voted for were brought to the screen in Defenseless! Check it out below. —MT

Hey all! Ryan has just finished putting together the video that demonstrates how each of the constraints you voted on affected our most recent film, Forest Falls! Check it out below. —MT

Hey gang, Just wanted to share a first review brought to you by the kind folks at the horror blog I Like Horror Movies. http://www.ilikehorrormovies.com/2011/11/short-forest-falls-2011.html This guy watches a ton of horror films, so it was especially nice to hear his positive feedback on Forest Falls. In other news, pre-production on Occupational Hazards is going [...]

Hey everyone, I hope you all had a great Halloween! We slept. And it was good. Besides sleeping, however, we made a breakdown of some of the visual fx in Defenseless. The video focuses on five of the trickier shots in the movie, and pulls apart all the layers involved so you can see what [...]

Hey all! I hope you had a great Halloween, and if you haven’t yet you should check out our Halloween film, Forest Falls. We’re very proud of everyone involved. Voting is now open for the next film in the queue, February Film, so head over to the Vote Page to determine which constraints we’ll be [...]

Happy Halloween everyone! After what’s felt like the longest two months of my life, I am proud to present to you the completed version of Forest Falls. I’d like to thank everyone who had a hand in making our first horror film a reality, especially in such a short amount of time. Enjoy! -Ryan

Hey gang, It probably has lost all meaning hearing from us time and time again how “things are crazier than ever,” but well, it’s true. Post-production on Forest Falls is our most intense post-period we’ve yet to experience. In order to finish it on time, Michael, Alex, and I are all editing different chunks of [...]

I would like to thank the amazing cast and crew for their complete dedication, and thank the Finite Films audience for their patience. Without further ado I present Defenseless. —MT To watch the entire film CLICK HERE. To start from the beginning of Part Two, CLICK HERE.

The film is done! We completed the last bit of work around 3:30am and have been exporting and prepping the website ever since. It is being uploaded to YouTube as we speak as a 2.2 GB file, so it takes a little while. With approximately 120 minutes left on the upload, I estimate Defenseless will [...]

Hey there, Michael here again. We’ve had to make a few difficult decisions regarding Defenseless, as getting it completed has continued to be a very trying process. After innumerable sleepless nights we have a version of it that is watchable and could be released, but it is definitely far from perfect and not up to [...]

Hey! Quick update. Filming has begun on Forest Falls!  Ryan, Alex, and the whole gang has been off in the woods for three days now…out of cell phone service range and without internet…so I’ve been mostly in the dark about what’s been going on.  Some of the cast returned last night, however, and have reported [...]

Hey gang, Just wanted to check in real quick before Finite Films headed off to the wilderness for principal photography on Forest Falls. After a few days of prep work at our cabin-in-the-woods location, and another few days of the typical pre-production whirlwind of prop-gathering and whatnot, we start filming tonight. Check out the film’s [...]

It’s nearly October, which means Finite Films is switching gears from our spat of “Summer Blockbusters” (Stealing Time, The Kristy Corollary, Defenseless), and starting work on our next round of films for the fall, which include the yet-to-be-titled Halloween & Holiday films, as well as Occupational Hazards. While you already chose the constraints we have [...]

Hey Everyone, As Ryan and I start gearing up for production on the Halloween Film, director Michael Tucker and our fabulous cast and crew are still hard at work shooting the conclusion to our epic, action-filled movie, Defenseless. Here are a few behind-the-scenes pictures from the Part Two shoot: Director of Photography Terrance Stewart and [...]

Shooting for Defenseless: Part Two began a couple nights ago at our D.P. Terrance’s studio in Chinatown. (D.P. stands for Director of Photography, FYI.) After the grueling, often frustrating car chase shoot for Defenseless: Part One, we couldn’t be happier to be off the streets of LA and shooting here, in a controlled location with [...]

Hey Gang, Not a whole lot new to report on.  Alex and I are still working on the script for our Halloween film, and Michael is ensconced making Defenseless: Part Two a reality (filming starts tomorrow after some more rehearsals and lighting tests tonight). We had been holding off on posting some spoiler-iffic Stealing Time behind-the-scenes photos for [...]

Hey all, A quick update on how things are going here at Finite Films.  Ryan and Alex are hard at work writing the Halloween Film based off the excellent constraints you all voted for.  As far as Defenseless: Part Two goes, we’re going to meet up with the whole cast this weekend to go over [...]

It’s the start of a new month, which, as always, means a new script is in the works for our yet-to-be-titled Halloween Film! Director Ryan McDuffie and I have started developing a horror/thriller concept that we’re quite excited about, drawing inspiration from the constraints you voted for last week. Meanwhile, I’ve also been helping director [...]

Defenseless: Part One is done! This was a very challenging film to make and required countless hours of work and dedication from everyone here in the “Finite Family”. It is truly a “part one,” so expect to be left with a bit of a cliffhanger. We’re very excited about this film and are already hard [...]

Hey gang, While I quietly wait for the constraints to get locked in before it’s full steam ahead on the next film I’m directing (our Halloween film), we’ve been continuing to work around the clock to finish up Defenseless: Part One.  Michael’s doing some last-minute visual effects work on reshoots from last night, Alex and [...]

Hey all! I hope you all enjoy the constraints that are up for voting for the Halloween Film. There are some pretty fun ones (I personally like “one character must bite another character”) and I know Ryan is really excited to direct this one. While you are all voting on the next constraints, everyone here [...]

Hello Everyone! First off, today marks the start of our next round of voting! Vote for your favorite constraints for our Halloween Film, premiering (you guessed it) October 31! Our blog’s been awfully quiet this month, as the entire Finite Films team has been completely consumed by the production of our next film, Defenseless. This [...]

Hey gang, It is my pleasure to premiere to you our first film based on user-submitted constraints, The Kristy Corollary, starring Adele Watkin, Mikie Beatty, and written by myself and Ben Waldorf. The two month production period proved itself to JUST be possible, thanks to 8 long nights of filming followed by 3 weeks of [...]

Tomorrow our first film based on user-generated constraints, The Kristy Corollary, will premiere on finite-films.com! In the meantime, check out our latest Production Diary! This one follows the beginning of the FF02 shoot, where you’ll get to meet the stars of the next film and see how your constraints are influencing the movie. We’ll see [...]

Hey everyone, Thank you for all the wonderful constraints you’ve submitted over the past month! There’s one final, important step you can do in shaping FF03: voting! You can help decide whether a character is a sex addict or has extreme social anxiety. Maybe both! That’ll certainly give our next director, Alex Calleros, something interesting [...]

After a week of intense, non-stop night shoots, The Kristy Corollary has wrapped shooting! Now, it’s on to post-production, and then an August 1 release! For now, check out some stills taken on set during our last night of shooting. To see the full photo album, check out our Facebook page (and “Like” us while [...]

Our most recent film, Stealing Time has been featured on the blog One Cool Thing A Day! Head to the blog to check it out! Also check out the production diaries page to watch the latest behind-the-scenes videos! And keep submitting constraints! –MT

It is here. Watch our second film, Stealing Time. After watching the film, check out this video that shows how the constraints used for Stealing Time shaped the entire film! Then, submit some constraints of your own–yours may inspire our next film.

Hey everyone! Today is the first day of voting for FF02! You get to decide which constraints are going to define our next film–and there are some good ones this month. From a character slowly descending into madness, to vacuuming naked, to an actor having to act a scene with people unaware of and unaffiliated [...]

Hi Everyone, As you can see in our last couple production diaries, shooting our second launch film Stealing Time was no easy feat. It’s actually one of the most complicated, ambitious movies we’ve ever tackled–just keeping track of continuity in a movie about time travel is a full time job (thanks to Sophie Green and [...]

Hey gang, Ryan here, It’s June 2nd; Summer is already here! We just premiered You Are Here, wrapped Stealing Time, and voting has closed on our first set of user-submitted constraints that will determine FF01 (our numerical moniker-system for films that don’t have an official title yet), which I will be directing, and will premiere [...]

Our first launch film is finished! Check out You Are Here! You Are Here is a short film about a girl who is spending life waiting on a promise that was never made, and she must make a choice between what she wants and what she needs. It was written by Alex Calleros in November [...]

Alright, so far so good. It’s been over a week since the launch of www.finite-films.com. We’ve gotten some very nice feedback on the site, and it’s exciting to know that with its launch, Finite Films is a “real thing.” After a big rush to get the site up and running, this past week has felt [...]

Hi everyone! Alex Calleros here, Co-Founder of Finite Films and director of our current in-production film Stealing Time. This whole “constraints” thing started over a year ago in January 2010 when Michael Tucker sent me an email. Our friend, Michael Coleman (director of SoundWorks Collection), just got a Canon 5D and we wanted to test [...]

Since this is my first blog post, I should probably introduce myself. My name is Michael Tucker, I’m one of the co-founders of Finite Films, and I directed the first movie that we’re going to release, You Are Here. It’s a film that Alex wrote based on constraints that I sent to him in October [...]

Alright. It’s official. There’s no turning back now. One week until May. Then we launch Finite-Films.com. And then it’s full-steam-ahead, non-stop filmmaking for the foreseeable future. This is both incredibly awesome and absolutely terrifying. But mostly awesome. We (by “we” I mean our core Finite Films cast & crew) have been itching to collaborate and [...]