Happy Hour Studios

10/10/2025

It’s Freddy Friday 🔪

Did you know? To capture those iconic “blood geyser” scenes, the crew actually built a room on a giant rotating rig and poured hundreds of gallons of fake blood through it, literally turning the set upside down

📸 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

10/03/2025

🎬✨ Big shoutout to everyone who joined us for the very first Happy Hour Studios x Blackmagic Design Short Film Challenge! Over three jam-packed days, a new wave of storytellers came through to shoot, edit, and create magic on the spot.

👀 Creators got hands-on with the brand new Blackmagic Cinema PYXIS cameras and tested out a cutting-edge cloud-based workflow that let teams film and edit at the same time. Total game-changer!!

🍿 We wrapped it all up with a live premiere of the finished shorts, where some standout projects walked away with Blackmagic gear and DaVinci Resolve Pro to keep leveling up. Can’t wait for the next one!!

09/15/2025

✨ Breaking barriers, making history. Today’s is inspired by Kathryn Bigelow who became the first woman to ever win the Academy Award for Best Director with The Hurt Locker, and has continued to shape cinema with bold, uncompromising stories like Zero Dark Thirty and Point Break. 🎬🔥

09/09/2025

From Donnie Darko’s dreamlike frames to decades of shaping cinematic stories, Steven Poster, ASC has done it all. For today’s , Steve Gainer, ASC ASK sat down with him to talk craft, career, and creativity.

🎥 Full interview now live on YouTube, and you don’t want to miss it! Click below to watch now!

Join Everything Cinematography as we have a wonderful sit down interview with Steven Poster, ASC. Known for films like Donnie Darko and Stuart Little 2, his ...

09/09/2025

Our recent Weirdo FREAKFEST short film festival was one for the books!

Thank you to everyone who came by and thank you to our team of interns for hosting an unforgettable night! 🎥

08/26/2025

Steve Gainer is back with another episode of and takes us through the fascinating history of the the Bell & Howell 2709 camera, including a macabre fact 👀🎥

Watch below!

Episode 2 features the Bell & Howell 2709B camera, the most steady film camera ever made!

08/25/2025

The Italian maestro behind La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8½, and so many other dreamscapes, today’s  celebrates Federico Fellini whose films remind us that life is as strange, beautiful, and poetic as we dare to imagine. 🌙🎥

08/18/2025

The Weirdo FREAKFEST Short Film Festival is THIS Saturday, August 23!

Swing by for a night of quirky, bizarre, and out-of-this-world short films at Happy Hour Studios.

Whether you’re a fan of surrealism, dark comedy, or just plain weirdness, don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind event that celebrates the oddball, the offbeat, and the downright strange in the world of cinema.

Doors at 6pm. Tickets at the link in bio 🎥