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Selections+awards

It’s always nice to be picked! Being selected on a elementary school playground was a nice feeling. Winning an award for a contest, also a great feeling. It’s nice to be wanted.

To be clear, there is a wide range of levels of prestige and challenge in life’s various contests. Being the valedictorian in a class of one doesn’t change the fact that you might enjoy some great university scholarships for just showing up. Most of the time, there’s a bit more competition. Well… We are blessed with multiple selections for festivals. This is great! We are definitely hoping for many more to come, but for now, we are thankful that it has started.

Actually, we’ve won a few things along the way as well. Best Cinematography in New York City! Best Social Short in an Indian festival. Best Dramatic Narrative Short in Austin. Great stuff! Fifteen (15) selections as of November 2019, with many other festivals to come.

Earlier this year, a number of people contributed to an IndieGoGo campaign we launched to help fund the final steps of completing ADNAN Far from Home, a short film we produced. In addition to finishing the project, the funding has been used to enter a number of wide-ranging film festivals in an attempt to broaden the number of people who might enjoy seeing this eight minute short film on “the big screen.” It really is amazing to see a project in a theater environment with a crowd. It’s actually very special!

Even though this IndieGoGo campaign officially concluded earlier this year, it is still “UP” on IndieGoGo and still enabled to receive funding since these funds could still go towards the stated goal… entering more festivals. If we understand it correctly, this campaign will continue to be active through at least part of November. Even though it no longer shows a deadline date, you can still click on the various perks found down the right side of the page. You would be added to the final rendition of the project in the future and receive the same perks.

If you would like to read about this project, you can see the UPDATES by clicking here. As these updates state, we are truly appreciative to those who added to the available funding for ADNAN. We are proud that this short film will be seen by more and more over time. If you would like to be part of this, please join us.

Industrial Support

Mustang International is proud to have expanded our focus in the world of industrial media support. One specific industry we have been pleased to work with more in recent months is the mining industry.

MSHA is a Federal agency regulating (encouraging) safety in mining. They mandate that each mine has site-specific safety training. For Mustang International, we are well-positioned to help with this as more and more mines are opting for video training to meet this requirement.

However, Mustang International is capable and ready to work on more than just site-specific training. Contact us today!

International Film

Mustang International producer, J Matt Wallace, has two different international film projects in development. In March 2019, Wallace shot in Istanbul for a second time in 4 months to finish up primary production on a new short film entitled ADNAN. Focusing on a Syrian refugee trying to make his way through the streets of Istanbul.

Later in March, filming was completed for another short film called ALISHER’S GIFT. This film is based in central Asia and addresses family, heritage, culture and religious freedom issues during the Persian New Year, Nowruz, which is celebrated all over central Asia and the middle east.

Both stories will be subtitled in English. ADNAN will be in Arabic and Turkish. ALISHER’S GIFT will be in Uzbek and Kyrgyz.

Post-Flood Studio Upgrade

In December 2017, Mustang Recording Studios were flooded due to a burst pipe on the ground floor.

We have been enjoying and using this studio for many years. It’s been super functional, but never has really been dedicated to recording or multi-track production. Regardless of the function from day to day, we were pretty devastated to find such damage to a key part of our lives and business.

However, we are hoping to make Lemonade out of some pretty sour lemons. While insurance helps with some of the costs, we are in the process of trying to upgrade the studio in some important ways.

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Two key things are new wood floors and better professional wiring/routing. These were not on the immediate TO-DO-LIST. However, this unfortunate situation kind of created the situation that makes NOW the time to do these things.

Check out our KICKSTARTER Campaign.

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Tertium Quid Production Wraps

August 6-7, 2017, were fantastic days. We shot the short film Sunday & Monday.

Here’s the cast & crew!

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Cast

Gordon Dean Nolen

Carla/Salome Denise Lee

Will Will Godby

Bear Keith Hale

Despair Man Steven Harris

Hooker Christy Tai

Riff Raff Lead Gordon Atkinson

Riff Raff Reggie Freakin Regan

Musician Scott Morse

On Set CREW

Director J. Matt Wallace

Producer Ioannis Hansen

1st Assistant Director Anthony Milton

2nd AD Miriam Wallace

Associate Producer Morgan Wallace

Director of Photography Shaun Falcone

1st Assistant Camera Ryan Patterson

2nd Assistant Camera Dick Saunders

Gaffer Juan Rocha

Swing Grip Richard Porter

Grip/Electric John Francis McCullagh

Truck Grip Tori O’Rourke

Location Sound Mixer Jake Wallace

Sound Assist (A2) Tyler Cardwell

Video Assist Dillon Hutyra

Script Supervisor Inez Espino

Hair / Makeup Anna Howard

Set Dresser (Sunday) Sean McCord

Art PA (Sunday) Allison Tackette

Production Assistant Michael Smith

Production Assistant Natalie Watkins

Behind-The-Scenes Photographer Brad Sutton

Video Assist Interview with Jordan Brady

In April 2014, Matt Wallace provided Video Assist support to a commercial production crew producing a series of new DODGE TV spots. Jordan Brady was the director, and he also produces a Podcast called “Respect for Process” that discusses commercial production.

During the last day of shooting, Jordan interviewed Matt about video assist services. Click here to visit Mustang International’s page regarding these services.

FYI: Jordan uses the terms “VTR” and “video assist” interchangeably – which is common in the industry. VTR is short for Video Tape Recording. Even though tape is no longer used on set to capture and playback images, the term “VTR” is still used to describe the function on set that originated with video tape machines and operators. A more accurate name for the actual function currently provided on set is “video assist” as it encompasses not only the recording and playback capabilities, but the service of providing high-quality video monitors for real-time viewing to assist the overall production.

 


Jordan Brady’s Podcast Website