June 13, 2011
 

Another “Rough Tender” Screening 6.22.11

Next week (June 20-24), St. Anthony Main Theater will be screening Minnesota Made Films for the Stone Arch Festival. Rough Tender will be screening on Wednesday, June 22nd at 7pm. Check the link here for more details. Other films screening, Fargo, Purple Rain, Sweet Land, and Grumpy Old Men…I swear if you go see Fargo instead of Rough Tender I will cut you.

 
May 20, 2011

Animal Humane Society Spot hits 1,000,000 and more…

Just a heads up…the Animal Humane Society “I Want…” spot hit 1,000,000 views the other day.

Not only that, but the spot was featured in an Adweek artcle. Click here to read the article.

It has also shown on just about every local news station. I was also interviewed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune where it was recently written up.

 
May 9, 2011

Rough Tender Wins “Best MN Made Film” at MSPIFF

We did it! Rough Tender took top prize for Minnesota Made Films at the Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival. A congratulatory shout out to all involved! The film screened a second time last night at the St. Anthony Main Theater in Minneapolis. If you haven’t already, check out the trailer here.

 
May 6, 2011

Our latest spot at MAKE in lieu of Mother’s Day! This is our first spot using a CamBlock Motion control dolly system. Shot on the RED with Zeiss Super Speeds.

Produced, Edited, and Directed by Mike P. Nelson

Creative Danny Robashkin (www.makevisual.com)

Executive Producer Oren Robashkin

VFX Supervisor Aaron Dabelow

Director of Photography Troy McCall

Art Direction Sheila Anderson

Gaffer Doug Gander

Key Grip Jonny Stuckmayer

Make up Aaron Pikala

Compositors Daniel Broadway, Mike Zugschwert, Josh Clos

 
May 5, 2011

Another bit of good news! The Animal Humane Society launched the “I Want…” kitten spot I edited and directed at MAKE and it has gone VIRAL! 3000 hits yesterday, 78000 today. Let’s keep it going and get more little kitties adopted.

Click here for the link to the Animal Humane Society page with the spot.

Produced, Edited, Written and Directed by Mike P Nelson

Creative Danny Robashkin (www.makevisual.com)

Executive Producer Oren Robaskin

Visual FX Supervisor Aaron Dabelow

Director of Photography Troy McCall

Assistant Camera Nick Junkersfeld

Gaffer Doug Gander

VFX artists Joe Kim and Kevin Wisdom

2d Animation Justin Weber and Niklas Norman

With the voices of Nancys Little Learners, Charles Hubbell, Lauren Anderson and Aaron Quist!

 

“Retirement of Joe Corduroy” on TwitchFilm

The Retirement of Joe Corduroy got it’s first bit of real press recently on twitchfilm.com

Read the article here!

Thanks to Freddie Avalos for spreading the word to twitchfilm and to Todd Brown for the article and the donation to my kickstarter fund!

 
April 19, 2011

Check out the new trailer for Rough Tender. The film will screen this Wednesday, April 20 at 9pm at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Fest! I was DP on the film.

 
April 13, 2011

I need your help! Recently I started a fundraiser at Kickstarter.com to raise money to finish my short film “The Retirement of Joe Corduroy!” Please check out the video and the project page at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1138618551/retirement-of-joe-corduroy-vigilante-throwback to see images from the film, production stills and to learn how to support this action packed new short!

Thanks

*mike

 
April 6, 2011
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A casino spot I cut and music supervised at MAKE. Graphics by Daniel Broadway.

 
March 30, 2011

A small winter vignette I shot at MAKE with the RED. All practical light. Cooke 18-100 lens, Mysterium X Sensor. 1000-1600 ISO. No color correction.

 
March 4, 2011

Teaser trailer for my film “The Retirement of Joe Corduroy.”

Bad Guys Die Summer 2011.

 
March 2, 2011

Social Security awareness campaign I shot and directed at MAKE with Nick Junkersfeld.

www.makevisual.com

 
February 28, 2011
 
First One Sheet

First One Sheet

 
February 24, 2011

Here is the Animal Humane Society spot I produced and directed with MAKE for the Minnesota based organization.

www.makevisual.com