NIGHTBEATS is my second feature-length narrative film and what I have been working on since 2006. It is a contemporary noir set in the after-midnight world of lost souls and secret pasts.
NIGHTBEATS
TheGarageFilmworks
Starring
Lori Foxworth Bonnie Bennett Kelly Nixon
Anthony D’Juan David Harris
and
Francesca “Kitten” Natividad as “Lola”
with
Galen Howard Julianne Gabert Blair Leatherwood
Jackie Schultz Thom Green Brian Rivera
Background Actors Casting Leslie Goodman
Assistant Director – Club Scenes Jeri Hibbs
Production Assistants Christian Ruz Cabrera Deanne Rotta
Blood FX Makeup Tobija A. Annis
Dedicated to Bob Fosse Sam Peckinpah
Hal Ashby & Haskell Wexler
Music Consultant, Arrangements & Piano David Blanchard
Music Park Avenue Music
Post Production Audio & Special Sound Design Jimmy Bell
Producers Bonnie Bennett Mike Carroll
Writer-Director-Cinematographer-Editor Mike Carroll
Contact : Mike Carroll mikecarrollfilms@me.com
Post Audio Mixed at 3rd Bedroom Studios 3rdbedroomstudios.com
Additional Music:
“Too Late For Your Soul”
written by Lindsay Matheson and CJ Gladstone
performed by Roses on Her Grave
wwwmyspace.com/rosesonhergrave
“So Happy”
written and performed by Dirty Kings
from their album Electric Dirt on Barnburner Records
www.dirtykings.com
www.myspace.com/dirtykings
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Music provided by ROCKIT ENTERTAINMENT
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Copyright 2009 The Garage Filmworks
I mentioned that among the audience at the Nightbeats screening at Method Fest was a writer. He was Steve Milner, the senior writer for BelAir Magazine, based in Beverly Hills, California. He said his write up would appear in a couple of days. When I got home from work I was curious if it might be up yet. It was! What a spectacular review! Click on Steve Milner’s review and read it for yourself! Many thanks, Steve. We never expected anything like this.
Had a full Saturday of Method Fest at Calabasas, and exploding community just west of the San Fernando Valley. This was a sleepy little town in the Augora Hills up to just a few years ago. Now it’s a rapidly developing city with a large City and Community Center, hillside developments and one of the largest Mercedes Benz dealerships I’ve ever seen. There’s a lotta money in them there hills. Bon and I started the day at the Agoura Hills Cineplex where two of the eight screens were taken over for Method Fest screenings. Movies started at noon so...
Hit the road yesterday to drive south to Los Angeles and Calabasas for the Method Fest Film Festival and tonight’s (Saturday, March 27) screening of Nightbeats in The Founders Hall. It was a beautiful drive. The first time we’ve hit the road for an overniter since becoming dogified with Greyhounds. Nearly six hours to kill so Bon and I discussed what we should do next. I told her about my idea for The ABC’s of Walking, a character study I’ve been tinkering with since last summer and which I invested in the Canon 7D for. She had been a...
Attaching the Nightbeats trailer (1:18 minutes), playing at the Method Fest a week from tomorrow on Saturday, March 27 at 9:15 PM at the Founders Hall. Method Fest is screening from DigiBeta tapes at this screening venue, but I’ve spoken with the projectionist and I will be able to play a High-Definition version of the film out of my MacBook so this should look and sound fabulous. Hope to see you there. For more information about Nightbeats and our other films visit nightbeats-movie.com. Nightbeats film trailer on Youtube
It was 10:15 at night here in Sacramento when the phone rang. “Hey, it’s Lori.” “Lori? It’s after one in the morning in New York? What’re you doing still up?” I passed the phone to Bonnie, figuring something had to be up for her to be calling this late. “Lori,” Bonnie said with some concern. “What’s up? Is anything wrong?” “I had to call. I’m so wired. Have you seen the Method Fest website?” “No. Is something wrong?” “Look at it! They’ve got pictures of Richard Dreyfuss, Bruce Dern, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney — and me! And I’ve got...
Nightbeats will premiere in Los Angeles in The Method Fest Film Festival on Saturday, March 27 at 9:15 PM. From the time that Bonnie and I set out to make this movie I wanted it to be performance-driven. That we have been accepted into a festival that celebrates acting is a victory for the film. Bonnie and I will be getting to Calabasas on Friday, March 26, to begin promoting the movie and checking out the other films. One of my best pals, Chris King (watermarkfilms.net) played his first feature Touching Down at Method Fest a few years ago...
