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TAWAN

THE YEAR OF SHOCK AND AWE!!!!!!

About Me


I am a filmmaker and screenwriter at heart...influenced by ALFRED HITCHCOCK, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Spike Lee, Legendary Gordon Parks, Louis Malle, and Fellini. This is a small list but my most important list of filmmakers who have made me! They have done things in cinema I can only dream of doing and they have truly SHAPED my thinking and story telling!
Since I was 4 (as what was told to me) I've been performing for family and friends, acting out scenes I saw in Orson Wells, Hitchcock and Fellini movies and staging rewritten scenes from their movies. In the 5th grade I had to learn French and Italian...well, actually the class had to memorize the opera La Boeheme in both French and Italian. This prepared us for a class trip we took to NYC to see the opera. From that point on I was sold! Filmmaking...is apart of my DNA.
Grafiek Studio is now the parent company of Unorthodox Cinema and Sexy Geek Media.
Grafiek Studio specializes in post production from editing to SFX. Film, HD, and DV.
Sexy Geek specializes in Interactive CDs, Internet Development(websites), Motion Graphics, Internet cinema and graphic design.
IMAGES FROM MY FILM "THE CRIME REPORT"
(Crime Scene was the working title)
IMAGES FROM THE FILM "UNTITLED" I am please to announce my film was just accredited at the Festival de Cannes
5 STARS at the Babelgum Film Festival!

My Interests

THE FILM "UNTITLED" movie poster

A scene from the movie P.O.V

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to network with other artist and anyone down to earth.

My web design company

Music:

I love a BROAD RANGE OF MUSIC!!!!

Movies:

Film noir, classic films, foreign films, anime. HEAT, SE7EN, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, A KISS BEFORE DYING, DONNIE BRASCO, DESPERADO, 28 DAYS LATER, HITCHCOCK COLLECTION,PASSION OF THE CHRIST, SCARFACE, WHITE HEAT, TRAFFIC, KILL BILL(VOL I-ONLY), RESEVOIR DOGS, SCREAM 1,2,3, BRAVEHEART, DAMAGE, RED, BLUE, LOVERS, TIE ME UP TIE ME DOWN, THE ORIGINAL--THE HILLS HAVE EYES, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET,PULP FICTION, JKF, PREDATOR, LOCK UP, DEAD AGAIN, WALKING TALL(THE ORIGINAL)...so many great films can't list them all.

Television:

FAMILY GUY, THE BOONDOCKS, AMERICAN CHOPPER, SOPRANOS, CHAPELLE SHOW(When it was on) and some other shows.

Books:

The Bible, Moby Dick, Hitchcock, A kiss Before Dying

Heroes:

My mother and Father, my stepfather Audley Byngs and Most importantly JESUS!

My Blog

UNEXPECTED

I've been working on the same project for about 7 months now and I've been pretty quiet about it. The budget I have for this project and the things I am attempting to do would seem foolish but Ia m ma...
Posted by TAWAN on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:44:00 PST

LA BOHEME

When I was 10 years old my class had to learn the opera La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini in French, Italian and of course English. This was a manditory condition by the teachers if we wanted to go se...
Posted by TAWAN on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:16:00 PST

BABELGUM FILM FESTIVAL

My film has recieved 5 stars in the Babelgum film festival!!!
Posted by TAWAN on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:03:00 PST

LAMENTATION

I don’t get a chance to blog as much anymore because my hands are full. I barely have time to respond to emails.There is much dicussion about filmmaking, format and so on which for the most part...
Posted by TAWAN on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:35:00 PST

"SUBSTANCE" film progress part 2

Well, I spent the better part of the day loading materials onto my system. Materials are key to any realistic 3D/CGI creation. Then I also checked out Kodak film stocks and lighting techniques. This i...
Posted by TAWAN on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:19:00 PST

TABOO - I know I will get looks for doing this!!!

I'm about to do something that is truly a no, no even in the Independent film world.One of my next films will be shot will a consumer grade Digital Video camera. This for me is the only way I can achi...
Posted by TAWAN on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:08:00 PST

DAVID

The treatment and script for the  film "David" is in the works. This will be under the company Unorthodox Cinema.The bible is a book not read as much in these days but if you ever decide to read ...
Posted by TAWAN on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:12:00 PST

CHRISTMAS :(

Well, unfornuately I can't spend Christmas with my family...I have to work!I was going to fly home to Jersey and see my mom, parents, cousins and friends.Kick it...eat, eat, eat...have a good time but...
Posted by TAWAN on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:52:00 PST

TEST SHOOTS and POST PRODUCTION WORK

I am doing some more test shoots after the holiday. There are some special effect ideas I want to explore.The documentary I have in post production is truly beautiful. There is no other way to describ...
Posted by TAWAN on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:47:00 PST

WEBDESIGN/DEVELOPMENT--DOUBLE WORK

Today was very prosperous. I was able to finish running a test on a site that I have been working on for a few weeks. However, I did have to do double the work which was unfortunate but things happen....
Posted by TAWAN on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:38:00 PST