Waaaaay back in spring of 2016 4Milecircus began collaborating on a pair of music video for their upcoming LP, Brighton, which was due for release in the fall. The album was still in process but singer/bassist Louisa was pregnant, everyone was busy AF and the band wanted to get footage in the can ASAP. The […]
2018 was a busy year at The Circus! We kicked off January with a cast and crew screening of Sean Mannion’s Meme, the first full length feature film to come out of 4MileCircus, at Videology (RIP). In January we were also deep into preproduction for It’s Normal, having our first full cast script read through […]
Shawn Setaro is the host of the acclaimed hip hop podcast The Cipher as well as a prolific music journalist for Forbes and Complex, an award-winning composer, and seasoned professional bass and guitar player. In Part One of a two part interview, Nicole and Sean talk with “other Shawn” about making the shift from […]
Not really in any order. Run The Jewels 3 – Run The Jewels It’s a Christmas Fucking Miracle and all I’ve been listening to for the past few days. Seems destined to be played heavily throughout 2017. Energizing as fuck. Martyr Loser King – Saul Williams Oh, NBD, just another fascinating, genre-hopping epic from […]
2016 was a year. Nicole and Sean take the final episode of it to review what has happened generally and what we ourselves have done. We discuss the impact of social media on the election, as well as shooting Mare, The Shondes music videos, starting this podcast, hosting the Social Media & Crowdfunding […]
Shooting on little to no budget can be daunting. While you may be able to call in favors for people in front of and behind the camera and wrangle equipment with the promise of more favors, one of the hardest elements required for filmmaking to arrange for on little to no budget are locations. Whether it’s […]
I was going to write a fun and simple #TipTuesday post about maximizing production value with free locations, focusing on one of my favorite places, the Brighton Beach/Coney Island beach and boardwalk. But as I began to write, I could not help but reflect on recent events and how they have colored my view of the projects […]
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In our eighth episode, 4MileCircus partners Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon bring you part two of our talk with Louisa Solomon and Elijah Oberman of independent rock band The Shondes.