Since we are in the middle of development hell on a few projects, here is a video by some filmmaker friends of ours.  So far there are three episodes, which will be added shortly. Episode 3 won the audience award at the Rocket City Short Film Festival.  

Tina (of Stan and Tina) will have a part in the fourth episode.  So to kill time between our projects, here's Killing Time.  If you're watching at work, use headphones, the language is NSFW.  And put your hands over the kids' ears if you need to.  

Sooooo, we are currently working on The Batman Movie. I'm sure it will have a different title, much like The Mime Movie was called The Robbery, but with the exception of film festivals, it was rarely called anything but The Mime Movie. It's just what we do.

Anyway, we're currently working on costume parts. I got my cat ears (see picture), and Stan has most of his Batman costume. Last weekend we recorded my narration. This weekend, the plan is to lay down the track, get the timing right, and get a proper storyboard in place. Then we shoot it, edit, ???, profit!

This story was written by me (Tina) in 2005, and I read it at Open Mic Night at the Flying Monkey Arts Center.  It was my most highly requested story.  We had been talking about making it into a movie till at least 2007, but getting a bank to use is pretty hard to do.  If you ask to film a bank robbery, they will call security.  And, I only ever had one bank in mind.  It was historical (like Civil War Era historical), rumored to have been robbed by Jesse James (not true), and just a gorgeous bank.  In 2011, the bank ceased to be a bank and I jumped at the chance.  The cast is littered with other filmmakers:  the security guard, two of the mimes, and both tellers.  

It has shown at Sidewalk Film Festival (Birmingham, AL), DragonCon Independent Film Festival (Atlanta, GA), Rocket City Film Festival (Huntsville, AL), and Wizard World Film Festival (Columbus, OH).  It was nominated for Best Comedy at DragonCon.  

Sometimes, the video is slow, so here's the YouTube link just in case...

Tina here.  This is the first project that me and Stan actually did together.  It was a contest for Badass Digest.  Pick a president, pick an occupation from a list, make a trailer.  Winners were screened before Abraham Lincoln:  Vampire Hunter at the Alamo Drafthouse.  We shot this in a day.  I wrote the script in a few hours.  It was shoestring budgeting at its finest.  Why James Madison?  I don't know.  It was my first thought.  Probably because I did a book report on Dolly Madison in Mrs. Geigers 3rd grade English class.  Why ninja assassin?  Well, when you find out about a contest right before the deadline, you go with something easy.  For us, ninja was easy.  I'm the screaming woman in the picture.  Andrew Hobbs, a successful filmmaker in his own right is the victim, and Stan makes a small appearance as the 4th President.  Enjoy.