Posts Tagged ‘eric walter’

Recent Developments

by Eric Walter
January 27th, 2010

After a long hiatus from the blogging world, I have finally gotten my feet on the ground enough to return and share my thoughts.

First off, I’ve been busy.

In August of ’08, I made the move from Maryland to Los Angeles where I proceeded to starve on the Venice beach boardwalk for the remainder of the year. Venice is a good time. After living out here for over a year, I’ve grown accustomed to the westside of LA. I very rarely make the trek out to Hollywood. Only if I have a decent reason.

For the past five months, I’ve been living in Culver City developing my first feature documentary film based on the infamous Amityville Horror case. The details of this project have yet to be officially announced, but don’t worry. I’m very close.

I’ve also formed a production company, Film Regions International, Inc, with an aspiring producer from Bakersfield, John Blythe. John is currently studying entertainment law and management at UCLA and co-producing the upcoming documentary. He’s the sinister-looking guy standing next me in the attached photo. Although, I’m not too sure who looks more sinister. Hard to tell.

So, it feels great to be posting again as I plan on making it a priority, especially in conjunction with the release of our documentary film. Please stand by for updates.


The M Report: Eric Walter

by Eric Walter
October 25th, 2008

by Marlon Wallace, The M Report

whistle location 300x159 The M Report: Eric WalterOn March 29, 2008, his 23rd birthday, I spent the day, the entire day, with local filmmaker Eric Walter. Now, I know quite a few guys, post college, who don’t make big deals out of their birthdays, and as I spent the day with Eric, basically following him around like a shadow, he didn’t make a big deal out of his either. Never even mentioned it the whole day we were together.

Still, something struck me as fascinating. I’m wondering if it even dawned on him that it was his birthday. He got up that morning and got ready for what turned out to be a full day of work without the mere mention of it. Since graduating college, I’ve had to work on several, if not all of my birthdays. The only difference is I got paid for my work.

Eric is an independent filmmaker, which is of course an easy euphemism for a guy who makes movies with practically nothing, for practically nothing, if not absolutely for free. Eric and his crew of no more than a half-dozen, who were all volunteer, were out running around, lugging equipment and props, dressing sets, and standing outside in a sunny, yet still very chilly, early Spring morning for about six hours shooting the first two scenes of his movie, a short film tentatively titled Whistle.

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WHISTLE: Best in Summer Shorts Film Festival

by Eric Walter
July 13th, 2008

The first exclusive screening of WHISTLE was held at the Milton Theater’s Best in Summer Shorts Film Festival (BISS ’08) on Saturday, July 12 at 8 PM. I’m happy to report our film won all three categories including Best Overall, Best Technical and the Audience Favorite award! Congratulations to our wonderful cast and crew for their hard work and dedication to this project over the past few months. Below I have included a few images from the short film festival.


WHISTLE: A Review by Marlon Wallace

by Eric Walter
June 24th, 2008

by Marlon Wallace, The M Report

still4 300x166 WHISTLE: A Review by Marlon WallaceNo Country for Old Men (2007) proved how effective a suspense film could be with minimal sound and an extreme lack of a musical score. It was probably the quietest thriller I’d ever seen, and yet still quite terrifying.

This short film by co-directors Eric Walter and Jon Parke rivals this year’s Oscar-winner by co-directors Joel and Ethan Coen as a sort of a “No Country for Old Women.” Instead of a mostly hushed yet aggressively-active chase, Walter and Parke make theirs a mostly loud yet passively-chilling following.

Here, an old woman, presumably widowed, living alone except for her dog, is stalked and essentially haunted, not by a psychotic bounty hunter, but a noise, or a series of noises. It’s not just haunting. This film, in fact, is an assault of sounds. It’s in the vein of The Raven or The Tell-Tale Heart, except there is none of Edgar Allan Poe’s psychological insight. Yet, all the Gothic charm as well as all the evocative and symbolic power remain.

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FOX 21 News Promo: The Lumberjack of All Trades

by Eric Walter
January 27th, 2007

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News package from 2006 promoting the release of The Lumberjack of All Trades (2006).