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Spruce Films (Swanny)

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About Me

Film & Personal Pics...
Production Company: Spruce Films
My Name: Don Swanson
Nickname: Swanny

I'm 28 years old and live, work, and play in and around southwestern Pennsylvania. I've been doing indie film since the summer of 2000 under the banner of Spruce Films. I have yet to stop attending school... because... pain is fun? I graduated film school on December 10, 2005. I attended Pittsburgh Filmmakers School of Film, Photography & Digital Media and concentrated in Film Production. One month later I jumped right back into another Masters at IUP, this time in teaching secondary English. My goal is to teach senior high kids literature, media, public speaking and drama while spending my summers making indie films & traveling with my lovely wife, Megan. Only 8 short months before I hang my career student life up for good!
Also, I'm working toward my first feature film, Lily, to be filmed in 2009. I'm hoping to do it in HD, so that's pretty exciting. I have a short version script done and will be working on the feature version over this coming winter.
By the way, I use this space of mine, or my "MySpace," for Spruce Films and me personally because I am way too lazy to even attempt to keep up two of these things; one is hard enough.
For more info check out my website @ www.sprucefilms.com
Check out my student work @ Undergroundfilm
Hop over to my IMDb Page

My Interests

Film, Movies, and Cinema!

I'd like to meet:

I'm terrible at keeping in touch, so I'd love to chat it up with old high school and college friends, as well as meet up with filmmakers and film lovers... or anybody interesting.

Music:

My favorite kind is folk/rock, but I like anything that is decent. Lately I've been listening to a lot of AdrenoKrome.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, May, Quills, Fight Club... and a lot more... not one to get into with a filmmaker!

Television:

X-Files, 4400, Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, My Name is Earl, The Office, Dead Like Me, Deadwood, Sopranos, Daily Show & Colbert Report

Books:

Anything by Hemingway or Poe. I love A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Heroes:

I saved the cheerleader... but I fear that I failed to save the world.

My Blog

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER ON NEW COMPILATION DVD

SELL OUT! (The Short Films of Don Swanson) is now available!  It will also be available on Amazon.com later in November.  It is retailing for $19.99, but I've created a special introductory ...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:53:00 PST

NEW SCRIPT & DVD UPDATE

A few things going on with SF at the moment. First, I finished "The Family Secret" script!  Not only is it a short in and of itself, it is also the opening act to what will be my first feature, "...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:47:00 PST

ANNOUNCING EVENT PRODUCTION SERVICES

Having done several weddings over the years for friends, and friends of friends, and in support of my plan to upgrade to HD and begin funding for a feature film, I am now "officially" doing weddings.&...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:42:00 PST

OFFICIAL LAND OWNERS!!!

Megan & I closed on our land today. 4.113 acres near Belsano, PA - 1/4 mile off of US 422.    We're 10 minutes from Ebensburg, 20 from Indiana, 30 from Johnstown, 40 from Altoona, and ...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:53:00 PST

FIRST PLACE FESTIVAL AWARD!!!

Word just in, End of a Dead Street grabbed 1st Place for best metal music video at the 2007 Indie Gathering, more to come as I find out!  Suddenly Shay won 2nd Place last year for best short...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:39:00 PST

Updates, n'at...

Ah, after a whirlwind tour with the family and in-laws for the last few days I get some time to myself... with Winston, our jet black cat!  And what do I do?  Eh, update my MySpace... y'up, ...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:20:00 PST

i know it's wrong, but it feels so right...

yeah... rob zombie's halloween is coming out in august.  like any other aspiring filmmaker, i'll give props to speilberg, lucas, etc... but i love carpenter's halloween.  i've seen it more t...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Sat, 05 May 2007 11:53:00 PST

FEATURE IN 2010

That's right, I've got a master plan.  I'm working on a horror short to shoot this summer on a Panasonic DVX100B.  The plan is to get it out and about in as many horror film festivals as I c...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:25:00 PST

oh, hell yeah...

I was going to have something really important to say... but I got up to check the laundry and lost my train of thought (yeah, that's it).  So, I have spring fever... bad... I am definitely going...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:16:00 PST

why, hello clarice...

what better way to spend a saturday night than with dr. hannibal lecter?  i am, unfortunately, enjoying the silence of the lambs alone.  megan hates horror, and all things "yucky," whereas i...
Posted by Spruce Films (Swanny) on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:31:00 PST