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 2010: My Film Festival amigo, JOHN GULAGER (FEAST [all]) and ME at the SHRIEKFEST! |
 2010: Antagonizing the Westboro Baptist boneheads at the Oscars. Which is fair since they seem to enjoy antagonizing others for Shits & Giggles. It's their idea of fun. Like people withTDS enjoy endlessly losing their shit over everything. Plus, both groups get to hang around lots of LGBT etc. people, whose company they seem to enjoy. |
2011: ME and MICHAEL MADSEN
(SPECIES, KILL BILL Volume 1 and 2, SIN CITY)
On the set of THE SORROW, Co-wrote and directed by
VERNON E. MORTENSEN
and produced by KELLY PARKS.
They needed a stunt double and
since I was
Michael's height and body type, I said "Okay" and off came the beard.
What do I care? I'm going to be Madsen's Stunt Double!
Then came the wig and Mike cracked up!
2012 2012 saw the release of my first eBook collection of previously published short stories: PERPETUAL BULLET is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Diesel, iTunes, Kobo, and Smashwords. And yes, that means it's available for the Android Tablet, iPad, Kindle, Nook, Sony eReader, and pretty much every "e" out there including your home computer.
Look for my upcoming collections, BLITZ LIZARD and EVIL DIESEL. And check out my blog at feoamante. worpress.com! I worked as actor, SFX Make-Up Artist, and Director of Photography, in a number of short films throughout 2012. By and large the short films are intended for use as Proof-of-Concept Teasers to present only to potential investors for a feature film. As such, they likely will never see the light of day. Still, it pays! At the world famous San Diego Comic-Con, I spoke on a panel to a packed audience - standing room only!
Our webseries, UNIVERSAL DEAD, while too old to compete, was made Official Selection at the Los Angeles Horror Fest 2012! On September 19, after 18 years of a protracted fight with an inexorably winning Parkinson's Disease, my father died in hospice, scared and confused. His disease would not let him have it any other way, and his last wish was that his children were nowhere near him, as he didn't want his final weeks to be our last memory of him. 18 long years. I cannot adequately express how our family both came together and came apart throughout the many years of caring for my Pop. At turns we all helped my parents, at other times, at their insistence, we did our best to do something valuable with our lives so Pop could see it before the end. So my Mom would feel there was more to her life and the life she brought into this world than caring for the man she loved as he slowly wasted away. So my Pop could die in peace knowing that my Mom could find some joy in the last years of her life. We gained a morbid humor out of accepting it all, while always hoping that a cure was around the corner. My Pop was both grateful for our help at angry that he was "doing this" to us. "Doing this" to us. As if he had a choice. My wife and I moved back home to Houston, Texas. In November I'm contacted by Publisher and Editor Joe Mynhardt, who invites me to enter a story for his upcoming print anthology, FEAR THE REAPER. Over the next few weeks, I write, edit, re-edit, and (with the help of a few writer friends reading and demolishing it for me), polish my short story Cedo Looked Like People, into a horrific little tale. Joe liked it and it is one of the first stories accepted for the anthology coming out in 2013. THE SORROW, that I worked on in 2011 as Special Effects Make-Up Artist, gets a poster and begins the film festival circuit in the U.S.!
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MINE GAMES
2012: ME as a Zombie, by British artist,
LEE 'GOATBOY' HARTNUP.
2012: ME and my movie amigo, COLIN CUNNINGHAM (THE 6TH DAY, DA VINCI'S INQUEST, STARGATE SG-1, THE COLLECTOR, THE CRUSADER, Steven Spielberg's FALLING SKIES) prior to his Malibu Beach party!
2013 My Writer page is now up at Crystal Lake Publishing for my short story contribution to the upcoming anthology, FEAR THE REAPER, to be released in October. In April I join a film group and enter the 48Hour Film Project. I write our short film, BUSHIDO. Luz works with me as Still Photographer. Directed by and co-starring Skye McCole Bartusiak, we win a bunch of awards in May! THE SORROW gets distribution and the title is changed to A SIERRA NEVADA GUNFIGHT, and was released May 7. I begin work on shooting my next short film as a concept for a webseries, TV series, or feature. This is THE NIGHT MY MONSTER DIED. I choose to go union, and become a SAG-AFTRA Signator. Luz works with me as Still Photographer, Art Director, Set Designer, Producer, and Executive Producer. In June my wife's sister Rachel (Raquel), is diagnosed with Ovarian cancer. October and FEAR THE REAPER is released as both a paperback and an eBook! In November, Luz goes to take care of Rachel full time as she has to live near a cancer center far from her home and her husband and son need to work to pay the bills. We keep in touch with Skype. Dec. 31, I release THE NIGHT MY MONSTER DIED to the world on Vimeo! |
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