Year of the Phoenix Productions

04/17/2025

Audience Choice voting has started for The Kickoff 48 competition! We're in Group D and would love if you all checked out the film and voted!

I believe you have to vote for your Top 3, so feel free to check out some others in our group too! If we make it through this round, we'll go up against other group winners. They're all under 7 min, so it shouldn't take too long to watch!

The link to vote is on this page full of films to watch: https://vimeo.com/showcase/2025TK48SGD

04/11/2025

Happy Friday! We have more Behind the Scenes photos coming soon, but in the meantime, enjoy the official poster for the 48 Hour short from last weekend!

Per usual, our posters are a combined effort from Kyle Bice and Lydia Koranda and will be up for its own award through the competition as well!

04/10/2025

We spent this past weekend working on a new 48 Hour Film! The Kickoff 48 is a global contest, kicking off this year's season of the 48 Hour Film Project. We can't share the film yet, but we're excited to do it soon! Stay tuned for the movie poster coming later this week!

📸: Kyle Bice

04/02/2025

It's that time again! We'll be spending this weekend working on a new 48 Hour Film. This one will be for the global event The Kickoff 48 to kick off this year's season of 48s.

The last couple we've worked on are still waiting to hear back from a few festivals and we can't share them yet, but enjoy this favorite of ours that won a couple years ago and stay tuned for some updates coming this weekend!

https://youtu.be/csuDAYO7GF0?si=V5O_RaufbK5EmDhz

03/28/2025

ICYMI: Last week, we released a short film we helped produce! If you haven't watched it yet, check it out! Here are some photos from behind the scenes:

Watch "Don't Go Outside": https://youtu.be/1j_TQ6zi8aI?si=yJoDNrIry8Af-Aa1

03/22/2025

First official rough cut screening of the documentary is in progress!!

03/19/2025

It's time! We're proud to release the short horror/sci-fi film we produced for Alex Reeve. His directing debut got him accepted and nominated in last year's Chicago Horror Film Festival and we're ready to show the rest of you now!

May we present: Don't Go Outside

In a post-apocalyptic world, a couple trapped in a garage is threatened by an unknown danger that lurks outside indefinitely. As claustrophobia and wanderlus...

03/12/2025

In late 2023, we produced a short horror/sci-fi film for our friend Alex Reeve. He was a first time director and got the film accepted into last year's Chicago Horror Film Festival as well as being a nominee for Best Horror Sci-fi film.

We're excited to finally be releasing it on our YouTube account next week, so be on the lookout for that!

03/10/2025

Happy MAR10 Day from the crew on Ghostlord and the Quest for Dark Presence!

We all know that Super Mario Brothers 3 was the best, right? 😉

03/07/2025

To celebrate International Women’s Day we wanted to highlight a few of the wonderful women we had the pleasure to interview for the Ghostlord documentary! 💪🏽👩

02/28/2025

New update about the documentary!

02/13/2025

02/13/2025

This episode features our director Craig Bass discussing our short Love, Love, Oh Awful Love!

From childhood dreams to creating horror cinema, Craig Bass with Year of the Phoenix Productions, has stories to share! Tune in as we explore his filmmaking journey and the chilling allure of his horror short, “Love, Love, Oh, Awful Love.” Catch our Conversation wherever you find your podcasts.

https://loom.ly/W5eutks

01/07/2025

The Dennies' music video is finally live and on YouTube for everyone to check out! This was super fun to work on, so go check these kids out and enjoy!

https://youtu.be/GmlCLBvPVS8?si=RVuCTQn5SIw_iTe2

12/17/2024

We recently got to film a new music video for badcandy over at our studio (Motion Source) and it was so much fun!
Check it out and give some love to the band!!

Directed by Craig Basshttps://www.instagram.com/craigbass/Filmed at Motion Sourcehttps://www.motionsource.com/Puppets created & performed by Rabbit Foot Pupp...

11/22/2024

A few of us had the fun opportunity to go out to Harper College and speak to the Film & Theatre Club about our work and how we got started in this industry. Our crew is comprised of mostly non-traditional paths and the students seemed to be encouraged by hearing those stories.

Thanks to one of our own, Chloe for inviting us to talk to her friends!

11/20/2024

Another timed competition in the books! We did for the Four Points Film Project, giving us 77 hours to write, shoot, edit, and score a short film. As always, these weekends are hectic, but super fun! Stay tuned for some BTS photos and eventually a link to the film itself!

Poster photo: Kyle Bice
Poster design: Lydia Koranda

11/03/2024

Launched this weekend with shooting something new and creepy! It's always nice to add new people to the fam!