If you don't know me already, I'm Liz Bradley. I'm a screenwriter and filmmaker in South Orange County, CA. I attend Saddleback College, where I take many film classes and am assistant to the head of the communication arts department, Charlie Myers.
I became involved in film in 2006 when I took an acting class with the intention of becoming a voice actor for imported Japanese cartoons. In that class I met Christopher Smith, who was a budding film director and was taking the class to get to know some actors he could use in his films. After we struck up a friendship and he put me in a few short films, I decided to pursue screen acting, and from there began to explore other aspects of filmmaking.
I began taking film classes at Saddleback. I got to know many great people - most importantly, Charlie Myers. He has big plans for his students - he doesn't feel he's done enough by just teaching his students the skills they need to succeed, but he also wants to give us our first jobs. So Charlie devised a plan to shoot Ultra-Low Budget Independent Features at Saddleback, and use his students as most of the crew.
By late 2007, Chris and I had written a feature together (Die, Clown, Die) and I had convinced him that we should become a couple. Our relationship has only grown since then. The same cannot be said for that first feature we wrote. Faced with a budgetary crisis, we made the decision to pull the plug on it a week before shooting was set to begin.
As I write this in May, 2009, we are once again gearing up for our first feature. This one is called Biology 101, and there is no turning back, now. Charlie is producing for us again, Chris is directing, and I, armed with knowledge gleaned from every class I've taken and every book I read, am ready and waiting to give full production support to the two of them.
I'm going to try to blog as the production goes on. So stay tuned for drama, mayhem, and creative differences!
