Pulp Productions Studios

03/13/2025

Over the years, we have put several projects on hold or have had delays on other projects. The first is "Tread This Fantasy." We shot this film some time ago. Shooting went really well for this. We had a pretty good team, we moved pretty fast, we did everything we needed to do. If I recall correctly, we did have an actress drop out after a shoot due to an accident, but we were able to replace her quickly and finished on schedule. The Kenosha News did an article about us. We released our trailer, we started promoting it, things were looking very good for this project. An event beyond our control happened involving one of the members of the production. I was torn how to move forward. There was work that still needed to be completed that couldn't be and we explored some other solutions to complete it. I brought on an editor who I had a lot of problems communicating with, but we pushed forward and what we ended up with was a giant compromise to simply complete it. We had a premiere scheduled and a deadline to hit, and I was not happy with what I had. We had a premiere, but the theater had projector issues and we had to cancel. It was all a nightmare to be honest, though part of me was happy only a handful of people saw that version. I knew there was a great movie there, but what I had wasn't it. It needed to be shelved for a while until I could complete it the way I meant for it to be.

As time passed, new tech became available. One of the problems we had was sound, we shot in a creepy but really great barn in the middle of nowhere, Illinois and there was a lot of sound that creeped in and what we were using wasn't the best thing. We needed to do some ADR work to fix it, but couldn't so I tried dubbing one of the voices out and while it was a solution, I never liked that and felt that alone hurt the film. In our world, years later, I can fix that. Another issue we had was while a lot of the footage is just beautiful, there were some really noisy shots that I couldn't use that I have now been able to fix. We had one really great effect in this film that I don't want to spoil, and it looked good, but we are able to adjust it a bit and make it even more horrifying. AI is helping fix some of the other problems in the movie that forced the compromises.

In the end, when you make a film, as a producer, as a director, I want the best product I can give my audience. A film is a baby I am bringing into the world and its my job to protect it and finish it no matter what. “Tread This Fantasy” has a rocky history, but the movie I wrote is the movie I want to give you, not a compromise, but the best thing possible. It took a long time, but this summer, it is my intention to finally premiere “Tread This Fantasy” in the theater, the way it was meant to be seen.

03/11/2025

Hello everyone, its been a while. We are getting back on track. While we have been quiet, we have been busy with a lot of new things. We also had to fight a bad egg and so far, have been completely victorious. We have a lot of news to share about what happened and what is happening from releasing everything that has been delayed to stories about the events of the last year, to what is coming and maybe a bit about our upcoming trip to LA. Stay tuned...

“Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” –Rocky Balboa

09/15/2024

From our final webseries, "Roomies" before we focused on features. That was fun. Still very amateur, it was done some time ago, but it was a good time making it. This is Aaron Starnes, he was in a lot of our early stuff, last seen in "Darkness Has Covered My Light." Many who met us at early conventions we appeared at met him. I do miss the good old days.

09/14/2024

Its been a crazy few months and crazy things will continue to happen in the near future, but we are getting things back on track. Sadly, we unfortunately worked with someone awful in our film "Crying To The Stars" and dealing with that has taken a toll and made me think quite a bit about the future and my conclusion is that the best revenge toward toxic people is leave them behind and succeed so they can see what they lost and that is exactly what we are going to do.

The projects coming are far bigger than anything previously done and our only goal is creating the most entertaining shows or films possible and the next three projects are big. We have worked with the devil and we have changed our entire casting process going forward because of it. People have to want to succeed, they have to want to not just help themselves, but help everyone who is part of a project, greed, anger, hatred, egos, laziness, those characteristics are poison. We will only work with people who want their dream, want to succeed, and who think about everyone, not just themselves. Success is not about one person, it is about everyone. A successful leader brings success to all.

That being said, looking at this photo, sometimes I go through all the old stuff and need to remind myself of the fun, the joy, the feeling of successfully making a film. I came across this old still, from way back in the day, the 90s, and our second film, "Tales From The Disco II: Nixon Returns." For this scene, it was the first time we went all out, an intergalactic disco and when we put everything together, it looked so good. We were still kids at this point, very young, but we had so much fun making this. This is Jeremy Lindholm (Z Nation, Twin Peaks: The Return) as the Reagan Replicator.

07/16/2024

I want to thank everyone who came out and talked to us in Knoxville. It was great to meet and see everyone and I hope those who bought our stuff love it. I want to thank my two actors, Egzon Sulejmani, lead actor in "Pizzodyssey", the new karaoke king of Knoxville, and the most random person I know and Kevin Baker, the most inspirational man I know, a great travel companion, and future star of many projects I am doing for all the hard work. We had a lot of fun in 10 states, well until the storms came and my car was destroy, but that's a story for another day.

Making movies are hard. People don't understand how hard they are to make. So many things can go wrong from sets falling apart to rogue actors to equipment being broken. They can break a person. But when it all comes together and you see what you made, all that just melts away and it will give you the greatest high you ever felt by seeing people watch the thing that I created. That's why I always fight for my films and always push to get them done.

07/12/2024

Come meet us at Fanboy Expo in Knoxville! We are at booth 307. We have a lot to say about the highs and challenges of independent film.

06/23/2024

I'd like to take a moment to announce a fun project we are doing next month called 'Inspiration Odyssey.' This is going to be a documentary feature film following three of us filmmakers during our trip to Tennessee for our appearance at the Knoxville Fanboy Expo. We are going to talk about our journeys, our goals, our struggles, show you what we do first hand to try to succeed in the film industry. Each of us has different experiences but we all have the same goal, success. This film will follow myself as the creator and producer of everything we do, Egzon Sulejmani, an actor I have known and worked with for six years now, the lead actor in our coming film 'Pizzodyssey,' and Kevin Baker, another actor who I have worked with a few times now and one of the lead actors in our coming horror film 'Blessed Are The Dead '. Together we will show you the work we put in to try to get where we want to go and hopefully inspire ourselves and others who dream the dream of film making.

Inspiration Odyssey: Directed by Brian Naydol. With Kevin Baker, Brian Naydol, Egzon Sulejmani. Three independent filmmakers travel to Tennessee to appear at a convention to promote independent films, but along the way, take a journey to escalate creativity, show the work they do and the fight they....

05/25/2024

Some older stills from "Until the End of Time." Its funny working on movies I suspended, you forget a lot of things, like how good the footage is.

05/23/2024

We intend to release a lot of films in the next few months. A few of them have been sitting around for a while including "Until the End of Time." This is a film that takes place in two different eras. We did a shoot that took place 50 years in the future and it looked terrible. My lead actor wanted to take what we had and edit it as something else and I refused, so its sat for quite a long time, incomplete. However, in the here and now, I have been learning Unreal Engine and with technology changing, with AI, I am finally able to finish this film the way I intended. As a story that takes place in two eras and two times lines, with all the past footage shot, I intend to shoot all the future footage soon using a technique that was used in Mary Poppins and will look amazing if I can pull it off. What we filmed looks amazing and this film must be completed and I intend to before the end of the year. This is our lost Gatlinburg film.

05/13/2024

Its amazing to me how much film tech has changed in just a few years. "Tread This Fantasy" provided a unique situation, its a film that I really liked, that is very well made, but had a few flaws that, at the time when we filmed it, could not be properly fixed, however, in the here and now, it can be. This shot was far too dark originally, you could not see most things in the foreground, our actress' face was far too dark to really see her face, but with things like AI and other advances, we can see every detail now. "Tread This Fantasy" was an unfortunate victim to circumstances a few years back and I had almost given up on it, but what is coming out of the ashes will be one of our best films. Don't quote me, but we are hoping to have the new version complete by July 8.

04/28/2024

Our next feature project, one of four coming, will be "Blessed Are The Dead." It is our goal to shoot this in September 2024 in the Wisconsin Dells area. We have brought a few cast and crew members on already and will begin the casting and crewing for the rest of the team in June! More information coming soon!

04/27/2024

I love trying to get great shots with bright colors into my movies naturally or through lighting. I always loved how bright colors can be used to enhance things. Working on "Tread This Fantasy" which uses a lot of red lighting, I was reminded of this and I I work on the four new features, its something I plan to continue. I always want our shots to look amazing.