The (Writer's) Journey

Welcome.  This is the continuing story of Unseen Hands Productions.  Most specifically, it's about my contribution to the company as I aim to get my screenwriting career started (fifteen years after my first and having just completed my fifteenth screenplay.)

I'm interested in showing the process as I work toward my goals.  The creative process itself is a really cool part of being a human - it's something that links us together now and throughout history.  And I think the business end of Hollywood is also pretty interesting.  I think showing my experience in both over the next chapter of my life will be cool.

A brief history for those who don't know us:

Unseen Hands was started in 1994 by myself (DJ Holloway) and my two best friends, James and Corey Monegan (cousins, not brothers.)  We started making movies with James's video camera, and never looked back.  In '96 we made our first scripted "feature" for our drama class at Willamette High School in Eugene, Oregon.  The next year, our graduating year, we made our first full length movie, and then continued that outside of school.

Our movies from that era include dozens of backyard shorts, but the scripted movies are:
MAN
The Hero of the Day
The Lucky Penny
Bishop's Cabin
Ripple
Haven
A Backyard Intergalactic Love Story
Yellowjackets
Ar Yung Hiro: Episode 7
Scarecrow

Then we split up.  Well, only literally.  We were still unified as a company, but James moved to Chicago and I moved to Southern California.  I made two features with my students at Eastside Christian High School:

Safety Squad
Stalker

And then my friend and co-worker Sun Kim asked me to co-write and direct a short for his festival, the Talent One Media Film Festival. James moved back out west and we made Pie & Coffee, which starred Doug Jones, and was an amazing experience.  It also was our first festival award - a Platinum Remi Award for Directing at the Houston Worldfest.
In the next two years, we made films for TOM Fest, Sunset, which won a Silver Remi for the script, and Stormdragon, which you can watch in its entirety online.

Which brings us to today!

James has moved back to Eugene to teach, but is still active in all our plans.  I'm still in Orange County, still teaching.  Our current goals are on three fronts, all viable (we hope!)  The first is trying to get my *professional screenwriting career started.  The second is to try to get Oregon money to make Possession Falls.  And finally, trying to obtain money down here for production of Brotherly Love.  I'll write about both those scripts here at a later date.