New short WIP is called A STRANGE KIND OF CREATURE. Going back to my roots with a blend of erotica, dread, and Lovecraft-infused horror. #scriptsky

#Scriptsky and #Filmsky friends...what's your 2026 look like? What are you most excited about? Where are you putting your focus and priorities? What are you aiming to accomplish in a year's time?

🔥I didn't make this, but someone posted it on FB and it's an amazing resource! Please share. #filmsky @timwestland.bsky.social @leahfromsd.bsky.social @rachelsl.bsky.social @firstglancefilms.bsky.social @cindybegel.bsky.social #screenwriting #filmmaking #moviesky #filmmaker #crew #tv #movies

New short film idea is coming along nicely. Gotta have this one written and packaged and ready to submit for funds by early February. Let's go...

Merry Xmas, you monsters.

To me, my X-Mas!

Merry Xmas, you monsters.

I want Harry D'Amour to have what Benoit Blanc has.

Winter Soltice in Umeå: 4 hours, 18 minutes of sunlight.

The Maximum Z 2025 Script Showcase is live! Big thanks to Paul @pezscreenwriting.bsky.social for all his hard work putting together this showcase of amazingly talented screenwriters. #Scriptsky maximumz.blog/2025/12/19/t... P.S. You can check out my dramedy feature 'Sam the Hammer' on the list

The Ersatz pilot will be out on youtube on the 10th of January! Animated by myself over 1.5 years #ersatz #indieanimation

Just finished the second draft of the outline/treatment for THE SPACE BETWEEN THE TREES and would love to get some eyes on it for notes. Always down to trade. DM me for the link if interested! #scriptsky

For the tree this year, Sophie decided to make MIDSOMMAR ornaments to hang. I love them so much.

Just finished the second draft of the outline/treatment for THE SPACE BETWEEN THE TREES and would love to get some eyes on it for notes. Always down to trade. DM me for the link if interested! #scriptsky

"A visually striking, black-and-white thriller with a complex, gripping story." - Tromsø International Film Festival Catch our film's premiere on January 20th during TIFF's "Films From the North" section. Written and directed by Chad Michael Ward, produced by Udda Studios, starring Agnes Born.

I will never forget meeting Peter, outside a strip club at 2am, after I had just moved to L.A. It was a strange but memorable encounter, and a small indication of what living in LA for the next 20 years was going to be like. RIP dude.

"A visually striking, black-and-white thriller with a complex, gripping story." - Tromsø International Film Festival Catch our film's premiere on January 20th during TIFF's "Films From the North" section. Written and directed by Chad Michael Ward, produced by Udda Studios, starring Agnes Born.

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Chris quite a bit back in LA for a few years. Super wonderful dude and forever a huge inspiration on my work.

Are you an EU-based actor who can speak fluent English? Raise your hand! Looking to build my database of available actors for future film projects. You MUST be able to work in the EU without a visa, so no American or UK actors, please.

Thrilled to announce that DESOLATION HEART will be premiering at the 2026 Tromsø International Film Festival in January. The sci-fi short stars Agnes Born, Mikaela Fredrikssen, Richard Desiatnik along with Alex Woods and @jcvim.bsky.social and is produced by Patrik Edlund for Udda Studios.

a reminder for the millionth time: your peers, NOT corporations, are making the media you want !!!!!!!!!

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

please support writers and artists and musicians and all the people who are doing the actual labor to create interesting, intentional work

This is going to be an excellent thing for up and coming writers. Was honored to be asked to consult on it a bit. AND it's actually free. AND it's built by an actual screenwriter. Pretty cool. #scriptsky #writingcommunity #screenwriting

Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.

Thrilled to announce that DESOLATION HEART will be premiering at the 2026 Tromsø International Film Festival in January. The sci-fi short stars Agnes Born, Mikaela Fredrikssen, Richard Desiatnik along with Alex Woods and @jcvim.bsky.social and is produced by Patrik Edlund for Udda Studios.

I helped out a little with the editing on @chadmichaelward.bsky.social's pretty short. Oh, why can't more movies be in black & white? #Filmsky #Filmmaking #ShortFilm

The 2026 festival season is coming! What better time than to commission a new poster for your short, feature, or screenplay. DM me for rates and details. #scriptsky #filmsky

THE TELEPHONE, my micro-short film starring Josh Neal, featuring a score by Joe Stockton, is now available to watch. Shot this back in 2022 as my first film project here in Sweden. Give it a quick watch and let me know what you think. youtu.be/zRm_39aVKIc #scriptsky #filmsky

"You spend half your time trying to get people to listen to you and the rest of the time trying to get them to leave you the fuck alone." The otherworldly Tom Waits, Grammy-winning & Oscar-nominated singer, songwriter, composer, and actor was #BOTD on 12/7/1949.

When the vibe of a thing is what is most powerful about it, using it as a basis for your thing, to which you bring an entirely different vibe, is tantamount to vandalism.

Every writer I know, every artist I follow, is in the fucking trenches trying to survive this shit. GenAI is not the future because if it keeps going there is no future, and even if it was that would be no excuse.

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

I like this thought. Get weird again. Summon the ghosts of Joyce & Beckett. Have a new beat generation, writing against the new culture of conformity. Out-create the machine & its rotting users with your real, broken, beautiful humanity. Get working on the new Naked Lunch, Desolation Angels, Howl.

Shoutout to @spolakiewicz.bsky.social for his invaluable notes on the first outline for THE SPACE BETWEEN THE TREES, which he calls "...sick, contained, atmospheric, and haunting. A killer concept." Excited to dive back in.

I can't say where yet, but DESOLATION HEART will have its premiere at a super rad festival in early 2026. Full announcement soon!

Hey #scriptsky! I've just finished a 10 page outline/treatment for THE SPACE BETWEEN THE TREES feature. I'd love to get some fresh eyes on it. Anyone up for a trade?

SCRIPT TRADE "The Space Between the Trees" is an 8 page folk horror piece that serves as the prologue to a feature film I'm writing. DM me if you'd like to trade your short script for notes. #scriptsky

I can't say where yet, but DESOLATION HEART will have its premiere at a super rad festival in early 2026. Full announcement soon!

BY THE HAND OF GLORY SHE RISES AGAIN A visual poem that I shot with Soja during a very brief trip to Dartmoor back in 2024. Annabella Rich provides the emotionally stunning voiceover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIP...

AZRAELLE One of the first, and probably prettiest, things I shot when I bought my Blackmagic 6k. Eden Tijerina is absolutely heavenly, and I'm honored that she let me come spend a sweltering summer day on her farm to shoot this with her. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNzd...

I want to cast Agnes Born in all the things from now on. I can’t wait to show everyone the work she and I and the whole DESOLATION HEART team have created together. #horror #filmsky #scriptsky

WHEN THE SHADOW YEARNS TO BREATHE A devastated young woman must come to terms with life and death when she encounters something strange deep in the forest. This horror short was the first thing I shot here in Sweden back in 2023. Let me know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVGz...

From the archives. Caitin Stickels Los Angeles, 2016 #photographer

Absolutely love this photo of Soja by @eds209.bsky.social on the set of FAIRY DUST.

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Even three huge stars + a truly visionary director can't get a sexy vampire movie financed In This Economy, smh. theplaylist.net/kristen-stew...

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