FREAKFILMS, INC: Video Press Kits for Musicians

About Me

Freakfilms, Inc. creates video press kits for musicians.

The company was started in 1995 by Merle Becker, ex-MTV staff producer / editor. A love of music programming drove her to start Freakfilms, Inc., a company which has focused on projects either heavily influenced by music, or geared toward music video / promotion.

The company's name is a reference to it's mantra: "Keep it out of the ordinary".

In addition to doing electronic press kit & profile pieces for both major label, and independent artists, Freakfilms does commercial work for networks including MTV, Fuse, VH1, AMC, and IFC.The company has also finished a political documentary, "Saving Newburgh"and is currently working on another documentary .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/19/2005
Band Website: WWW.FREAKFILMS.COM
Band Members:THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS EPK / VIRAL VIDEO
James Hunter "The Hard Way" EPK
..James Hunter "People Gonna Talk" EPK

BC Camplight EPK

N. Lannon "Hollow Heart"

"Four Minutes With Kid Koala"

Influences: The Cohen Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze, Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet (for "Delicatessen"), Tim Burton, David Fincher (for "Fight Club"), Stanley Kubrick (for "Clockwork Orange"), Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, Sam Mendes (for "American Beauty"), and most recently, Jason Reitman (for "Juno").
Documentary filmmakers: Joel Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, Michael Moore, Ric Burns, Ondi Timoner (for "DIG!") and Jennifer Abbott / Mark Achbar ("The Corporation"), Nathaniel Kahn ("My Architect"), Chris Wilcha ("The Target Shoots First"), Andrew Neel ("Alice Neel"), Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini ("Farmingville"), Steve James ("Stevie"), Lauren Greenfield ("Thin"), and Ralph Arlyck ("Following Sean"), Amir Bar-Lev ("My Kid Could Paint That"), James Marsh ("Man On Wire"), Doug Pray (for "Surfwise"), Kelly Nyks ("SPLIT: A Divided America"), Julien Temple (The Filth and the Fury), Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk), Albert & David Maysles (Grey Gardens), William Arntz / Betsy Chasse / Mark Vicente (What The Bleep Do We Know)
Sounds Like: Purchase DVD of "Saving Newburgh" (2005 political documentary) ($11.99) (8.25% NYS tax & shipping added at checkout):

Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Check out the new EPK / Viral Video we just finished for the fabulous Kim Wilson, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual &videoid=54267692 . And wat...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:01:00 GMT

THE POSTER FILM

The website for the poster documentary, "American Artifact" is now up. www.AmericanArtifactMovie.com . Stop by and check it out!
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:25:00 GMT

Blind Melon Toes Across The Floor

(VIDEO O THE MONTH 6.06) I'll never forget where I was I heard about Blind Melon lead singer Shannon Hoon's overdose. Their album "Soup" had been on repeat in my stereo for weeks, and even though ther...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:04:00 GMT

Korn Twisted Transistor

(VIDEO O THE MONTH 11.05) For those who haven't seen it yet, Korn's video for "Twisted Transistor" tops my November video hotlist. Featuring Snoop Dogg, Lil' Jon, Xzibit and David Banner as the band, ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:37:00 GMT

Air Guitar Nation

Over the weekend, I caught the film "Air Guitar Nation". It's a hilarious documentary about the Air Guitar World Championships (yes, playing the invisible guitar), held every year in Oulu, Finland. Ev...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:54:00 GMT

Presidential Speech...

Alright, here's another one that's old but, God forbid it get filed away somewhere far away where it never gets seen again. It originally aired on Comedy Central's Last Laugh 2004, but it currently li...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:52:00 GMT

The Chemical Brothers I Believe

(VIDEO O THE MONTH 12.06) December. The time to ponder why you never achieved this years New Year's Resolution to "get out of this crappy job".Dom & Nic (Nick Goffey and Dominic Hawley) from the Facto...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT

THE VIDEO O THE MONTH...

I realize, for all of you faithful 'VIDEO O THE MONTH' subscribers out there, (and, yes, there's quite a few of you) that there has been a bit of slacking on my part to get a pick out this year (2007)...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:37:00 GMT

Elliott Smith Strange Parallel

(VIDEO O THE MONTH 10.06) Like any fine, upstanding member of the unofficial Church of Morissey, I listened to Elliott Smith incessantly for months before his death, and like any good C.O.M. member, I...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:05:00 GMT

Pink's Stupid Girls

(VIDEO O THE MONTH 2.06) February brings with it such noteworthy Americana as Valentine's Day, an opportunity to call it "The Blizzard of 2006", and my video pick of the month: Pink's "Stupid Girls". ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:04:00 GMT