Welcome to the homesite of Gary Chason.

Mr. Chason has been a film and theatre professional for over 30 years as a Director, Casting Director, Writer, Producer, Teacher, and recently as an Actor (see Dear Pillow quotes in "reviews" section).  He has recently focused his efforts on directing, cranking out two Hi-Def features in the last couple of years - Everything or Nothing and God Thinks You're a Loser.

We hope you enjoy your visit, and we look forward to hearing from you!

NEWS

September 28, 2010

GOD THINKS YOU'RE A LOSER

I won the Best Writer-Director award at the Atlanta Horror Film Festival. Programmers called it "hilarious!"

DISTRIBUTION

Tara Wood of Wood Entertainment has signed agreements to distribute both GOD THINKS YOU'RE A LOSER and EVERYTHING OR NOTHING. She is taking both to MidCom in Cannes in Oct. where the buyers are mostly from TV, which is ideal, then on to the American Film Market in Santa Monica in Nov. She'll also take them to Cannes in May.

IN DEVELOPMENT

BOGWERT, my children's script, is still in the works. Several LA production entities are considering it now. And I have adapted it as a book, a chapter book, and that is getting some notice too. We are likely to publish it online. We've already agreed to an I-Pad application, which is an exciting prospect. And I've completed two sequels, both chapter books: BOGWERT II: SNOT and BOGWERT III: STINK. Book IV is well planned and I intend to start on it soon, with the goal of finishing it by the end of the year. It's called TEARS. I have a concept for Book V too, which will be about Santa, and how he manages to do it every Christmas.

Richard Johnson has joined Susan Elkins and me in developing the property, which is looking more and more like a viable franchise.

EXTINCT (formerly ENDANGERED SPECIES), my creature-feature script, is still under option with Richard Johnson, but that ends soon. Don't know what's going to happen next, but I've got some interest from another Producer. But I hope Richard pulls it off somehow.

ON THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT

DEPTH OF PHIL: another acting gig for me. I play Phil, a homeless guy who finds Facebook on a computer at the library. He finds a woman he had a romance with when they were teenagers and makes a date to meet her for a drink. That doesn't go well, to say the least. Up and coming filmmaker Jack Daniel Stanley wrote and directed. It had its World Premiere at SXSW and Hollywood Premiere at the LA Shorts Festival, which is an Oscar qualifying festival. That means it got seen by the right people.

FOURPLAY: SAN FRANCISCO: the latest feature by Kyle Henry. Kyle's last picture, ROOM, played at Sundance and Cannes, so he's a talent to reckon with. 4PLAY is an omnibus of 4 shorts on the same theme: the transformative power of sex. I play a lead role in one of the shorts - a quadrIplegic whose wife arranges a session with a high-end transvestite sex worker. Strong stuff. And talk about an acting challenge. I couldn't move or speak. Had to rely on facial expressions and breathing sounds. It's not prurient at all; it's moving and sad. It had its World Premiere at OutFest in LA and is already for rent through IndiePix.

LIVE THEATER

CHRISTABEL: an adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem - another script of mine from the Nineties. It's not a movie at all, but it may end up as a video of sorts. It's a stage musical. Josh Robins of The Invincible Czars is composing the music and Ia Enstera-Layadi will design sets and costumes. I am checking out theaters in Austin to determine the right venue. Josh is well into composing the score and I must say that it is awesome. Since every second of the show has to be accounted for in the score, I am now calling it an opera. But not a sung opera in the Italian/German tradition but rather a danced opera in the Asian tradition of Kabuki and Chinese Opera. We have now finished Act One and it is very exciting! One more act to compose music for. I'm expecting production to occur in the 2011/2012 season.

IN POST-PRODUCTION

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: another acting role for me. I play a Priest who blows his brains out. It should roll out in 2011.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Indie Slate Magazine: I shot the photos of the Duplass Brothers for the magazine. One photo is on the cover many more are inside. Shot on FILM!

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