SLIDE Entertainment
Producer/Writer/Director/Photographer
I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things--I crawl under them--I climb on them--I am on the head of a galloping horse—I burst at full speed into a crowd--I run before running soldiers—I throw myself down with the aeroplanes--I fall and I fly at one with the bodies falling or rising through the air.
-Dziga Vertov
SLIDE ENTERTAINMENT is a multi-media company started by CEO Trey Howell . The South East has long awaited a revival in its local film industry. Such a movement will come not from waiting for major production companies to occasionally infiltrate the region but by developing an infrastructure that can not only support incoming media productions but also produce highly profitable media, regionally, that can legitimately compete with the Studios themselves. While this is a daunting task to be sure, and one that has been unsuccessful for others, the many talented people behind SLIDE have the ability to succeed in this venture and jump start the independent media revolution in the region.
The global market for films produced independent of major studios grew to over two billion dollars in 2005. Utilizing the growing interest in independent media art, advancing compositing technologies that are reducing production costs, financial incentives provided by state legislature and the lack of competing companies to service the regional market, SLIDE entertainment is positioned to become a dominant force in the regional industry with all the tools to carve our niche in the global market. With a surplus of currently under-utilized talent in the South East, we will be able to tap the local work force at peak levels of financial efficiency while adding jobs into the local community. We plan to apply these same concepts to expanding our studios physical facilities, locations, and production capabilities through acquired technologies. We approach the industry with the intent to produce smart multimedia that can be appreciated asthetically as well as intellectually while keeping the concepts utilized in our visual presentations sleek, and entertaining . We plan to run the company as a family of artists and business people with the common goal of bringing to the global market cutting edge media productions
SLIDE ENTERTAINMENT produces various forms of cutting edge media from concept to finish. The company aggressively implements the recent advancements in digital technology to set a new standard for the expectations of regional media.
SLIDE doesn't strive to be a rigid corporate entity. The company works fast and efficiently and produces commercially viable work, but knows that originates from creating a comfortable artist friendly enviroment where collaboration is key, producing a richer more complex product.
SLIDE's mission is to produce multi media that is intelligent and thought provoking while maintaining a creative, approach to the visual images produced there by constructing products that are both commercially viable and cutting edge art.
While the company's current focus is film production, it is developing several departments covering graphics, internet, television, commercial, music, and fashion.
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Slidefilms01@aol.commyspace.com/treyhowellmyspace.com/slideentertainmentmyspace.com/pcpthemoviehttp://imdb.com/title/tt0972868/PCP: A VanGuard Chronicle is a feature length independent horror film currently in production(
http://imdb.com/title/tt0972868/)
Slide Entertainment is an independent production company working in both Wilmington, NC and Charleston, SC. The company found early success with the short film PCP, and using it as a starting point, Slide Entertainment began to develop it as a feature film (and part of a larger story line) that would revolve around the VanGuard Organization (VGO).
Their newest film, also titled PCP (Port City Prostitute), began somewhat as a joke and has steadily turned into a world with its own mythology, demons and rules. Creator and CEO Trey Howell and his team are currently at work on their latest project, prepping for a final epic battle sequence. The movie is about the hunt for a vampire pimp.
Slide Entertainment is actually putting their money where their mouth is and creating the type of movie they want to see.
When asked by a reporter at Encore Magazine to discuss the history of SLIDE, Producer Trey Howell responded:
"I suppose Slide began in my head in 1999 when I saw the film Fight Club, which was probably the most influential film overall for me in my life. In the film during a meditation, the protaganist sees his "power animal," a penguin (which is featured in our logo), and tells him to "slide." Later he utters the phrase describing his philosophy "the ability to let that which does not matter truly slide."
... In June of 2002, I was cast by the Fincannons out of Wilmington for a role in the film Cold Mountain. I spent most of the summer that year in Romania working with an amazing crew. ... It was a huge learning experience. ... That gig prompted a move to LA, three years of more learning. ... It was time to begin building Slide."
Over the past two years SLIDE has been developing several scripts that revolve around the "VanGuard Organization," a group of freelance ex-military operatives that are hired by governments, large corporations, et cetera, to hunt down different "monsters" before public knowledge is gained of them, i.e. aliens, genetic experiments gone wrong, and thus using that pretense to explain zombies, werewolves, chupacabras, and in the case of PCP, vampires. The VanGuard became my vessel to re-explore the classic monster movie archetypes and their metaphors while attempting to bring some degree of realism to their existence and producing commercially viable cinematic products that could also exist as sugar-coated social commentaries.
When asked about the inspiration for PCP, Howell had this to say :
"I was heavy in the development/pre-production process for two of my early VGO scripts, producing story boards and concept art, filming test photography et cetera. Last October when one of my lead actors, Greg Frucci, suggested we enter the Final Cut Film Festival in Wilmington—I live in Charleston, South Carolina, but I knew Wilmington was referred to as the "Port City" so I jokingly responded, "Sure, we'll call it Port City Prostitute."
... We did sign up for the festival, and I decided we should continue on in the same vein of work we were doing with the VGO storyline, so I sat down, and in about 30 minutes wrote a six-page script for the original short film Port City Prostitute about the VGO sent to eliminate an infestation of vampire prostitutes plaguing the Port City.
... I pulled the Slide crew together, mostly from Charleston and Charlotte, and we bunked up at Greg's house in Wilmington while shooting and cutting the short in about 28 hours. The film went over well with the judges, and we took Best Film and Best Cinematography awards at the festival. I still had no intention of shooting a feature until a couple months of continued pre-production when I realized that the projects I was working on, which required either full-body creature suits for one, or thousands of zombies for the other, were just too far out of our price range at the moment, and vampires were a little cheaper to create. So in late December, I moved to Wilmington, started pre-production without a script and began writing the PCP feature. It took me about eight days to get the first 120-page draft done. I don't really write normal scripts, neither in the narrative or the format. I see the movies in my head pretty clearly, and most of my screenplays are shooting scripts that include a lot of editing and sound notes. ... I can't fully explain where all the ideas come from; when I sit down to write, it's either a furious flow of ideas and images or nothing at all. I'm a huge fan of film obviously; I simply write what I would like to see in a movie, and I guess that covers a lot of ground."
... Shooting began in 2007. In the feature film, the VGO would again be hunting vampire prostitutes, this time also looking for the host vampire pimp that was infecting them. The prostitutes would be targeting citizens of the Port City, luring them to a secluded place, robbing them to pay their pimp and feeding on their blood to satisfy their vampiric hunger.
SLIDE recently brought on Curtis White of ATMG and Dead Dog Films as our U.S. VFX Producer/Coordinator, ATMG also produced the SLIDE Entertainment logo.
SLIDE also recently completed an outsourcing deal for CGI FX with
Josué Hernández de la Cruz and Diseño y Animación Digital out of Mexico City...you may have seen some of their work on Myspace featured vids...they have released some excellent UFO "hoax" videos that have become viral on the web.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ledrackHorror FX MakeUp Artist Ben Hardie aka "The Master of Massacre", is heading up the production and application of FX Makeup and Prosthetic Appliances with his team of students from the Douglas Education Center for FX Makeup in Pittsburgh, PA.
PHASE II of production is going to be a challenge but given the grand scope of the project and its relatively small budget... but the filmmakers have attained footage that is of a high caliber and despite budgetary constraints plan to continue to raise the bar for this film in the next phase of production. Final filming locations include Charleston SC, Wilmington and Charlotte NC, and Pittsburgh PA.
Synopsis:
A centuries old bloodline known as the VanGuard have hunted monsters over the course of human history...the family employs an elite group of mercenaries operating under the mantle of the VanGuard Organization (VGO). In this film, the VGO is on the hunt for a vampire nest in Port City. The head of the VanGuard family, Hunter VanGuard sends his VGO "Rogue Squad" on a mission lead by ex US Marine, Slim Pickens...an unwavering solitary man haunted by the childhood slaughter of his family. The VGO knows the vampires are posing as prostitutes in Port City, feeding and robbing local upstanding citizens, they must find the host pimp and exterminate the nest before the vampirism becomes an epidemic...
PCP is based on a short film entitled Port City Prostitute, produced entirely in twenty-eight hours for Wilmington's Final Cut Film Festival the film took top honors for Best Film and Best Cinematography.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on... Chuck Palahnuik
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes. Charles Swindoll
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein
Where you send your thought - so goes your energy
Where you send your energy - your thought is manifested
