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General Information Joseph Elsey Home City: Chicago email: proveyouwrong@hotmail.com High-Res Image Aspiration To provide a free resource for artists and DIY solutions for filmmakers. Area of Expertise Camera: Video Directing Producing Writing Reels Palooka 06/21/2008 Javier used to dream of becoming a prize fighter. Now he just dreams of putting food on the table. For a chance to do both, he'll give up more then he ever imagined. What do you do when giving you're best just isn't enough? Braveheart Barbeque 02/17/2008 A certain Scotsman has just moved into the neighborhood... and life is never going to be the same. Roscoe Village: What Could Have Been? 04/23/2007 Nate wakes up to find a sleepless Van, staring into space, chain smoking. On the way home from work Van saw his ex-girlfriend with husband and child. Spinning him into a bout of contemplation and regret. And on the flip side, while out to dinner with his girlfriend Lane, Nate brushes with a life filled with diapers, soccer practice and driver’s per [...continues] Aqua Teen Hunger Farce? 02/05/2007 FLASH! The ABS News team brings you a story ripped from todays headlines. Cracker-Jack reporter Rand Bandersnatch exposes the holes in Chicago's Homeland Security. Check out "Aqua Teen Hunger... Farce?" and find out just how scared you should be! Mogo Myspace Click Here a [...continues] Roscoe Village: The Forbidden Zone 01/01/2007 Van wakes up on the couch in the buff and has to explain to his roommates the events of the previous evening with seductress Monica. And how it really didn’t go as well as it was billed. Carter and Jasper enter and reveal a story about Van’s would be girlfriend that leaves his jaw dropped. Is Carter the “Love Machine”? Will Van enter The Forbidden [...continues] What is the HFB? 11/21/2006 What is the HFB? Has Mayor Archibald P. T'Willigers' administration over stepped their bounds? Does Peter McBedelman hold the key to a brighter future for the citizens of Chicago? Find out, America, as Rand Bandersnatch reports on the newest developments at city hall in this ABS News Special Bulletin. Add Mogo Doesn't Socialize as a Friend on [...continues] Roscoe Village: Retreadamon 11/01/2006 Join Van, Hayden and Nate on a reckless tale of abandonment. These life long friends stumble through life together. Sunday morning, after a night out at the bar, we find Van getting ready for the Lions game. Nate awakens from a pile on the floor to very uncomfortable surprise. Hayden not to happy about the exchange recounts the events of the evenin [...continues] Punisher: Against All Odds 10/24/2006 Winner of the Reactor Convention 2006 Fan Film Contest. The final, though late, product of Upressplay.com's three day experimental film seminar at the 2006 Reactor convention. Developed, shot, and finalized by the attendees of the Reactor who volunteered their time and their minds to help make this trailer. Thomas Doyle Piwnicki, and Joe Elsey p [...continues] Letters to Ming Mong 10/08/2006 Mogo Doesn't Socialize responds to a letter from their adopted Chinese son, Ming Mong. Add Mogo Doesn't Socialize as a Friend on Myspace Click Here Marazene: XecuTe 06/05/2006 If you listen closely enough you can hear it. The trance-like, danceable headtrip laced with violence emerging from the midwest is none other than Chicago-based MARAZENE. Tipping the hat to the sound pioneered by the early 90's Chicago Industrial movement led by MINISTRY, songwriting finesse of the Smashing Pumpkins/BILLY CORGAN, and the crunch hea [...continues] Palooka: Trailer 04/19/2006 Newly released trailer: Javier, played by Mauricio Mesa, is a young boxer training in Chicago Wife pregnant, losing record as a fighter and unable to get steady day work, finds the walls closing in on him. Joe Elsey - Filmmaker 07/25/2005 Poet, Scholar, Idiot, Filmmaker. Need we say more?.... Roscoe Village: Episode 3 Trailer 05/21/2005 After a chance encounter with his ex-girlfriend Van painfully reflects on his life status. Battles with the idea of becoming a responsible adult and raising a family. Where Nate is scared into sobriety after Lane reveals to him that her period was 2 months late. Throwing him into his own life affirming evaluation of what he wants and who he wants [...continues] Roscoe Village: Episode 2 Trailer 01/27/2005 Van wakes up to a very rude awakening as the guys enter into the Forbidden Zone! Roscoe Village Official Site: Containing Wallpapers, Photos, Avatars, Trailers and Press Releases. Click Here Roscoe Village Bulletin Board: Log on and let us know what y [...continues] The Roommate 04/24/2004 This poor guy has a violent roommate who hates to be disturbed while he's sleeping. His ex-girlfriend and dumb ass buddy are doing everything to get his ass kicked. Court Jester: Stand Up 11/14/2003 Court Jester's first venture into the visual realm has brought forth a music video that has captured the raw intensity of the live performance. "Stand Up," being the first single off "GINA". "Stand Up", a powerful guitar driven rock anthem. Download to your iPod! Two Days in Limbo 09/01/2003 In the final days of World War II, a young medic is for the first time stationed on the German front. His platoon ambushed, and himself wounded, he finds himself no longer fighting for his priciples or duty but for his very life, as he spends Two Days in Limbo. Winner Best Dramatic Short NY Internationa Film Festival Michigan Independen [...continues] Sweet Blue Cheeba 07/20/2003 Our big mouthed hero Roy tries to win the love of his ex-girlfriend Wendy, by trying to expose her new boyfriend's dealings with the drug underworld. Accompanied by his stoner buddy Floyd, the only thing standing in his way is Doc and his bodyguard Sly. Caleb's Cube 07/09/2003 Caleb has a fear of leaving his apartment. His fear becomes overwhelmed by the need to get away from his roommate Stewart. Who is obsessed with an underground movement on the web called Time Cube. Can Caleb escape from the clutches of the Cube? Will Stuart become a Christian Scientist? Find out inside the Cube! Buy Caleb's Cube Online Now [...continues] Sweet Blue Cheeba: The Trailer 05/28/2003 An idiot, a stoner, a drug dealer, a king pin and one gay dude all vie for the incoming shipment of Sweet Blue Cheeba! The Confession 05/27/2003 Joseph, a young priest, battles with his feelings of guilt over the war he and his fellow priests have taken against sin. Stay Dead 03/07/2003 Jack, Russell and Lara are on their way to St. Louis, when then pull into a small Illinois town. In search of gas they follow the brainless Billie Lou back to her farm, where they will have to fight for their lives. The Zombies are coming. Prepare yourself. Stay Dead Official Site: Containing Wallpapers, Photos, Avatars, Trailers and [...continues] Mouse Trap 11/21/2002 He only thinks he's the superior being...A man has to know his limitations. The Confession: The Trailer 10/11/2002 In the name of God, and in the eyes of God, reap different consequences. A young priest is torn over his pursuit for justice, versus abiding by God's will Two Days in Limbo: The Trailer 10/11/2002 A young medic is dropped in a platoon of war hardened grunts. Where he finds that war isn't as glamorous as the newpapers make it out to be. Stay Dead: The Trailer 08/02/2002 3 Travelers, driving through a remote area, stumble into a situation, where they encounter two of the most disgusting, most terrifying... Still Images Stay Dead Me trying to take the edge off of latex being ripped off my skin. Stay Dead A brief moment of pause on an otherwise busy day of shooting Stay Dead Two Days in Limbo This picture predates my mustache a full two years before any of the other ucrew members were rolling with one. Writers Samples: Contact writer for treatments and screenplays. Title Genre Stay Dead Horror/Comedy/Westren Three travelers get themeleves stuck in the middle of nowhere. Add hillbillys, moonshine, corrupt corporations, delusions of grandure, dirty sex, retards, vomit, zombies and they find themselves in a whole mess o' trouble. Har har! Eat O Rama 2: Electric Bugaloo Experimental The 'true' prequel to Stay Dead. The story is much like Stay Dead except it involves nothing in Stay Dead. Instead our story focuses on the hardships of a young argentinian boy who struggles against the hardships of life. Seeing his parents killed by a corrupt police state. The seperation from his twin brother. His forced exile to America. The discovery that the streets of the United States are not actually 'paved with gold' and are instead 'paved with sorrow'. That despite the loss of the right side of his body works his way through school and gets himself into one of the best schools in the nation to become a doctor. Only at the last minute to lose both his hands and half his brain in a horrible drunken driving accident. Even after losing his parents, brother, childhood, home, left side of his body, both hands, half a brain, his ability to practice medicine in any legal aspect this young man drags himself from nothing to become something. He sells everything he has, takes a loan from a bank, borrows money from friends, begs in the streets and finally he is able to afford a semester at a respectable film school. Not having use of the left side of his body, and no hands this Argentinian man, strong in character, has trouble using the camera. He aces the test with the other half of his brain, but trouble using the camera. Great trouble. Still, he manages to work his way through film school. He sells a kidney. From the non-working side of his body. He doesn't feel good about it and many nights are spent repenting to the holy mother, but it pays for another half-semester of film school. He makes many new friends at his new school. He tells them all about his story. A young woman who is very attractive takes sympathy on the man. They help each other with their films. He helps her write, direct, shoot, and otherwise fully conceptualize her films and she holds the camera for him when he to use it to shoot the next scene of his movie. Together they get through film school. The strong of heart, mind, and character Argentinian man who fought all odds to become a great doctor and then an even greater filmaker comes out of film-school with a feature script based on his life story and a short film which has already won some awards. He gets ready to move on to LA where a producer has already purchased the rights to his story and the Argentinian man's script will be made into a big-budget studio film with all the appropriate indie-actors who have just been bought up in the latest hollywood cattle drive. The man steps outside with a new lease on his otherwise physically wretched life. Side by side with his new girlfriend, who happens to give really great hand-jobs. She really knows how to work his ball. The man steps outside and is instantly shot in the working side of his face in a drive-by. His blood splatters onto his new girlfriend's face. She screams and immediately grabs his script and hotails it to LA. And as his soul evacuates his body his life flashes back to him. All the pain and suffering in his life. His triumphs over it all and only to end like this. He asks himself if he has any regrets before he enters heaven. He can only think of one and that is the moral of this story children. And the large black nanny closes the book. "Lordy, lordy. What a sad story my little chitlins... But there's a moral. Be sure of that youngins... A strong moral... Do any of you know what that moral be?" And all of the children, bright-eyed and bushey-tailed, raised there hands so high you might think they were reaching for the clouds in the sky. The nanny leaned over in her rocking-chair and motioned for the sweet innocent children to give their answer. And they did. In synchronized, harmonious choir they answered... "Anyone can make a bad movie about good art, but not everyone can make a good movie about bad art." Training Blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Previous Work EDUCATION B.A. Film, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois 2002 SKILLS • Knowledge of digital editing systems: Adobe Premier, AfterEffects. • Knowledge of digital video cameras: Canon XL-1S, Sony PD-150. • Fluent with PC and Macintosh. MS Word, MS Excel, Adobe Photoshop. EXPERIENCE Director, Execute Music Video: Featuring Marazene, February 2005 • Music featured on The Matrix: Revolutions SFX portion of the DVD. • Shot on green screen. • Supervised all post-production and SFX with Premier and AfterEffects. Director, Roscoe Village: Episode 2, December 2003 • Directed second episode of a three episode series. Producer, Short Films, Dec 2002-May 2003 • Caleb’s Cube- 11min short on 16mm/ Complete movie on Upressplay V.1 DVD • Palooka- 25 min short on super 16mm/ Trailer on www.upressplay.com Director/Writer, Stay Dead, March 2002 • Complete movie on Upressplay V.1 DVD; www.upressplay.com • Short based on feature length script. Writer, Feature Length Scripts, 2002-2005 • Empire of the Dead, horror/action script ,WGA west registration #:920513 • Stay Dead, horror/comedy, WGA registered. • Road to Rockford, Comedic Musical INTERNSHIPS Editing, Outsider Inc., March 2003-May 2003 AWARDS Eagle Scout Award- Received in 1997 Equipment Used Sony PD-100, Sony PD-150, Sony DSR-300 Special Skills I am semi-narcoleptic.