I’m the elephant, you are the mouse (re-duxe/re-master)
In a world of lies, there is always one truth, One self…..
Port an artist, is caught in the fast life of Los Angeles. Oliver, Port’s best friend narrates as Port gets sucked into an “on again-off again” relationship with Alice, and a drug addiction. Port’s story is universal in it’s search for truth and meaning, as his travels around the world bring him to fully realize the love he needs the most is his own.
Original score by Slowdive.
Take off and take care.
CREW
Director/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Director of Photography
Lawrene Schweich
Score
Slowdive
Assistant Producer
Mike Dytri
Editor
Paul Heiman
Reduxe Editor
Freddy Fingers Jr.
CAST
Port
Ferris Christopher George
Oliver
Mike Dytri
Aliah
Christina Una
Alice
J.C. Brandy
SPECS
Duration: 116 min
Shooting Format: Super 16mm
Aspect Ratio: 1:85
Life is Nice® (reduxe/re-master)
Set in in suburban Los Angeles, In the vain of “Stranger than paradise & Slacker”, “Life is Nice…” is a post, post-modern tale of love, friendship, perhaps bordem and a girl.
While following their often humorous adventures, the film explores the relationship between two old friends, Josh( Forest), and Silo (Mike Dytri), as they try to find the meaning in their quite often meaningless existence. The film’s pivotal character is Clara ( Kia Collin), Josh’s domineering and often manipulative girlfriend. As Clara plays the emotions of the two friends against each other, they discover just what their friendship is made of.
Featuring Steve Buscemi in best comic cameo ever!!!!
CREW
Director/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Co-producer
Mike Dytri/Matcheck Malish
Director of Photography
Eric Swanson
Score
Jesse Loya
Editor
Matcheck Malish
Reduxe Editor
Freddy Fingers Jr.
CAST
Liguor Store Guy
Steve Buscemi (yes, that Steve Buscemi!)
Silo
Mike Dytri
Josh
Forest Wise
Clara
Kia Collin
SPECS
Duration: 96min
Shooting Format: Super 16MM
Aspect Ratio: 1.85
Hussy: Life is Nice 2000®
Think All in the Family meets Swingers meets the Archies on acid and crack with a little One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest thrown in for good measure.
A black comedic adventure into the surreal crazy mixed up world of Josh and Silo and their freaky friends, jerked up love lives, and hustling ways.
AN ABSTRACT PAINTING IN THE WORLD OF CONTROLLED FILMMAKING!!
Josh and Silo, hipsters, pop-culture babies, best friends since they can remember, sit around their motor home at a trailer park overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean, talking about almost nothing. Questioning their lives and always wondering:
Who’s a pedophile? Why did you shag my mother? Where do you go when your guinea pig is gone? What do you do when your wet dream girl turns out to be a transsexual?
Everyday, weird friends (porno-stars, transsexuals, mongoloids, sex kittens, etc.) drop by making their somewhat normal white trash life fade into the surreal world of what some may call disturbing, nuts, strange, and in an odd sort way extremely funny.
One day they realize the junkyard they run isn’t bringing in the income they need to exist, and I do mean exist. These slacker, white trash, beatnik style “kids” have to come up with some wacky hustles and scams to get them out of their predicament and keep on existing. And as always, they do.
Inspired by Jules and Jim, Josh and Silo’s love life soon begins to get convoluted by love and a woman, Kate. After many attempts by Kate to be a lover to one of them, she realizes fate has taken it’s toll and if she wants one she has to have the other. Menage a’ trois style without the sex, platonic together and intimate apart?
Josh and Silo are hipsters caught in a make believe skewed world where everything goes and nothing is sacred. It is a world made up of what most would call broken taboos. They are free to do whatever they want because they are Josh and Silo, the hip hipsters who are going nowhere fast but having a hell of a time doin it.
CREW
Director/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Executive Producer / Asst. Producer
Tanya Stephens/ Melinda Esquibal
Director of Photography
Jaime Reynoso
Editor
Paul Heimen
CAST
Silo
Joss Godard
Josh
Forest Wise
Booker
Corin Nemic
Gina
Rebecca Lord
Kate
Genevive Maylan
SPECS
Duration: 15 min
Shooting Format: Super 16mm
Aspect Ratio: 2:39:1
Woman: The World of Mine
CREW
Director/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Artistic Director/Line Producer
Monster Chun (RIP brother)
MUSIC
Hoo
The Murder Hornets®
“we are alone, even when we are together”
CREW
Director/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Director of Photography
Forest Wise
Actor
Everybody and their mother
Petshops: Pet Shop®
A meta TV show via ACW world.
A puppet and his dream to escape his destiny of being a cure for AIDS. In a world of lies. “The muppets on acid.”
CREW
Wirector/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Director of Photography
Forest Wise
DEVELOPED PROJECTS (SCRIPTS)
crimsonpolarbear® presents
Neon Vultures: Nepal Project 25®
Find yourself, when you never knew you were looking.
Three lifelong friends from Los Angeles—now middle-aged and somewhat adrift—reunite in Kathmandu, Nepal, after the body of their best friend, missing for four years in the Himalayas, is finally found.
The men take on the responsibility of honouring his last wish: a sky burial, the ancient and rare Buddhist ritual in which the body is offered to sacred vultures high in the Mustang mountains, symbolizing both the impermanence of life and the interconnectedness of all beings.
As the friends face the logistical and spiritual challenges of fulfilling the sky burial, the journey’s intensity is punctuated by existential jokes and clever comic observations.
In the end, high above the world, as vultures circle and prayers echo—brings an unforeseen, tragic turn. Their pilgrimage becomes a profound meditation on loss, redemption, and the importance of love and friendship.
To remind us how absurd—and precious—it is to be alive. Forever altering those who make the journey of the sub-conscious.
CREW
Writer/Producer/Director
Forest Wise
Producer/Director of Photography
Tito Reynoso
Actor/Producer
Jimmy Duval
Cashmere Sabertooth®
Part of the ACW trilogy.
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings”……socrates
Take everything you know or think you now and throw it to the wind and begin. “Cashmere Sabertooth”, takes us on mind bending psychotic poetic bullet train ride to place where poetry meets commercial and they have a baby hydra.
A Black comedy, action, sci-fi, with a sharper edge than a samuri sword, and a great love story thrown in for good measure.
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
JUNGLE+ KILL®
“Everybody can hear you scream, again.”
“Deliverance” meets “Predator” meets “Texas chainsaw massacre” on the day of the dead of the first blue moon eclipse of the last 100 years.
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
The Dharma Cubs®
An ACW TV story.
A dramatic -baby heist- action- horror- adventure -black comedic tale with a little sci-fi and a love story thrown in for good measure. Poetry meets commercial on the playground of our sub conscious.
“The Dharma Cubs®” the TV series inside this universe is in active, active development and will be connected to “slowmotion superstars®” .
Christmas: South East Asia. Visna & Rin: Two young street jungle hustlers, Navi & Dao: two young sexy+ cute woman, one demon cowboy, a few too many creature weirdos, and a master heist, with a mermaid and witch or two, thrown in for crazy fun. What could go wrong?
Smack in the middle of an exotic remote jungle village, a “special” dance party, super score is about to go down. The dharma cubs® have a plan to steal it all, the perfect hustle, only to be double, criss-crossed, super f**ked by an entity unbeknownst to all of them. The very wrong marks from a different time space.
They succeed, only to be caught during their Christmas celebration. Caught by a woman, or something, hired by a guy that makes the devil seem like an angel of light. Now their journey/escape really begins, in a mixed up world they have no clue about, and no control over.
Run, run and begin again, to only be found. Danger, excitement, ghosts, boat prisons, a floating woman, poison newts, aliens, secret maps, crazy pixies, exotic insane adventures to get them through. Fairy-tale’s come to life, only to see the horror of living in a unknown universe of hate.
Will they escape? Can they survive? Are they able to love again?
Family, betrayal, and a crazy ass adventure make this a surreal ride of a this lifetime or any lifetime.
Think “Stranger Things” jungle style, meets “Harry Potter” very dark style, meets ”The Lost Boys” Asian style, meets “Kill Bill” meets….directed by David Lynch, Wong Kar Wai, and Spike Lee on psychedelic acid trip. What the f*ck is right!
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Faded Young Gods®
An HJ anthology+ story.
Françoise lamure’. Everyone wants her. Everyone needs her. Two jaded LA hustlers are hired by a super wealthy family to track down their daughter somewhere in Asia but where & why?
They’ll search anywhere, everywhere, because she’s the answer, she’s it, the prize..
We will meet different characters along the way; Buddhist monks, Thai hookers, Indian orphans, X pats, street hustlers, albino chief liars, etc. etc.
Picture this: The cold clean air above the mountains of Nepal. A clue here, a lie there. An Indian street guide, a trickster, an albino witch doctor. A glimpse, a hint, then a boat ride on the beautiful coastline of the Thailand beaches, then down the jungle route in the papua New Guinea rain forest, across the great wall of china, over the mountains through the jungle, down the river and start again.
Soon, they find the prize, only to find love and never look back. J. loves her, she loves him. They find the meaning of true real love. B. loves her but nobody will ever know, until it’s too late. B. wants to get paid to bring her back, collect the reward (cash) and it tests the levels of loyalty, friendship and sacrifice.
Conflict: love VS. money. Friendship VS. love, who, what will win.
As Butch and Sundance romanced and danced their way through these scary situations, our guys pull off coup after coup through language and cultural barriers, speaking and not speaking the native
tongues and charming the unwanting.
The chase goes on and on…only to culminate at the end of the world where everyone is questioned, questions, and only a few are set free.
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
I Wanna Be Adored: A Gorgeous Suicide
An HJ anthology+ story.
Pony standing up against a window looking down at the city of lights, Los Angeles, thinking how miserable his life is.
He is getting mentally prepared to sleep with a girl who paid him for joining her for the night, he has no idea how much his life is going to change within the next 120 days.
Fighting against a cheated husband, fighting his feelings for an impossible love, and, most of all, fighting against a lethal disease inside his body. Pony struggles to find out who he can trust, who his friends are and who is in control, him or the universe.
Pony realizes quickly that he and others gained control over his life and his only goal is to gain his ordinary life back again. He tries not to question the instructions he receives, but to follow all of them as best as he can.
He ends up in India. And yet, he is far away from influencing his situation, depending solely on their mercy – and on the cell phone they gave to him to wait for instructions.
LA, India and Hong Kong are the locations of this story full of greed, friendship, power, intrigue, blackmailing and life threatening situations. And a love, stronger than Pony has ever experienced, a love stronger than most have experienced!
The film starts in a quite postmodernist way, before the story line becomes more and more a thriller in a James Bond style without showing Pony as a super agent, but a normal guy caught up in a world of chaos. No James Bond here.
The love story is a key part of the film and influences Pony’s way to act and feel during these pace and hover hustles.
It is his new found love for Hope- a beautiful Asian woman, that is an angel to many, and devil to some. An angel which gives him the possibility to overcome his fate, but it is also this love that makes him almost lose his mind.
Who will survive? What does it mean to trust in a world of lies?
At the end of the day everybody wants to be ”adored”.
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Hustling Jesus®: (A) and (B)
Part of planned anthology.
This is not your ordinary ”popculture-nihilistic-genXadults & millennials-with-guns-screwing-people-over- black comedy- action- drama film”. Well, to be honest, it is. But it has a lot of other layers i.e: art, politics, history, literature, poetry, music and religion! And the infinite theme of love. A film with intellectual thoughts about existence, moral illusions and the overwhelming feelings of apathy in the new millennium.
The first film in a crazy lovely cinematic planned anthology.
A gang of hustlers ready to scam the world consisting of benny, their smart and ruthless leader; emma, a strong woman who is in charge but very much questioning her existence; vex the womanizing art lover; cherry the supervixen; pony the pop-culture trendy dumbass.
The gang’s employer is black tiger, runs the world, a “Godfather” type, who lives in South America, giving them missions all over the world. Sometimes the country is only a backdrop, and sometimes it’s directly connected to the story. However this gang more often than not takes matters into their own hands creating their own rules, bordering on suicidal behavior. Living in fear and passion the gang begins to question the meaning of their existence. Benny is at odds with it all. He loves Emma with all his heart. Emma wonʼt give into love, when all the gang do is equated with hate.
They all have a secret that lets them live what seems like forever.
Sistine Chapel; Italy to the serengeti in Africa and back again.
Love is not easy, Living is harder.
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Shot Out®
A graphic novel + tv series.
A graphic novel come alive, with no place to exist in this faded reality.
Los Angeles: 2069?
In the year…well forget the year. Sometime in the future. An epidemic, City Scape Disease has wiped out most of the plants, animals, vegetables, and minerals.
Some people survived, some died, and others, they just mutated. The city is now a post-apocalyptic visual hell. The epidemic was Government initiated, they wanted the perfect world, what they got was a mixed up reality. The police force is still in existence, along with the other government propaganda. Crime has been stabilized at an average percentage for the time.
The Government has taken ex-cons and made them into police, they are known as Skinners. These experiments are an attempt to give the people a fair shake in life? Or maybe control them for an eternity?
Our story begins with Crash and Johnny: two hip cool Skinners, best friends/brothers from different mothers, who hate more than anything their circumstance/situation (they’d rather be shagging women or jackin the latest CYB-Ex game).
A sadistic killer, Wacky the Clown, is on the loose brutally slaying people who are good and pure. After many screw ups on the force, Crash and Johnny have no choice but to capture Wacky the Clown or they will be thrown back into
Max-Tech prison.
As they realize their dead end situation, nothing is left but to snap into overdrive like real super cops on acid. Solving the case? With characters abound, “Shot Öut’s” insane/wacky theme, unique style, and the mystery of who the hell Wacky the Clown is, makes it a psychotic treat for everyone lost in their nightmares in a city that is so, so Shot Öut…
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Always There Baby®
Everyone is born with the right to love and be loved.”
Always There Baby, a hip love story, taking you to San Francisco, India and Paris. Worlds apart, but in the same universe.
A contemporary tale about a group of friends unraveling love, life and the meaning of their existence. Nico (a novelist) and his sister Alex (a lost free spirit) have a dark secret that deprives them from maintaining any kind of loving relationship.
Sometimes you have to let go of the idea of what love was to find out what love is.
Thrown into the midst of this love carousel are a host of off-kilter characters that add spice, dimension, complicate matters and give a simple love story an edge that hasnʼt been felt before, or ever again.
And in the end everything is…always there baby.
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Starfish & Cavier®
An ACW story.
A mermaid , a boy, and a dream to love in world of hate.
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Living on the Fringe©: Street Kids of the 3rd World
A documentary. 5 continents, 15 kids, 100 streets.
CREW
Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Creature Hunters®
A meta TV show inside ACW world.
CREW
Director/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
CAST
Forest
Forest Wise
Jimmy
James Duval
Blinded By the Light®
We are not all equal.
CREW
Director/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Floating Backwards®
Part of the Cashmere World.
CREW
Director/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise
Vanishing Heartache®
Another world right in front of our eyes. A doco series with maniac x-pats, the Underbelly superstars and delusional Jeffs.
CREW
Director/Writer/Producer
Forest Wise