Zar Production Studios

07/10/2025

Its been a crazy busy summer, and sadly haven't been able to make this a priority to get this done sooner. But all good things! Don't worry!

As a director, you try to put your faith and trust into people who can make your vision come to life. And I have to say, I'm proud of the people who were on this team, back in January!, and who were able to stick with this and get it done.

Since my Christmas short in 2016 (I Belong Home for Christmas), another project (Meaningful Tones) unfortunately forever stuck in post due to the way I directed the shots and not knowing enough about cgi, and 6+yrs of doing countless other projects for other friends and colleagues and going on my learning journey of a lot of other departments...I'm very happy to say, we will finally have a third project that will be seen and enjoyed by others (Face Your Demons)!

After weeks of having amazing music conversations, anxiously waiting for the audio mix, and a few weeks of foley, all of us in post balancing life and other projects, the final sound file came in and I'm doing the final levels mixing.

This project is just 100M away from crossing the finishing line. When you see, the people listed below, say congratulations to them, they were the beating heart of this.

Keep a look out in your local Pittsburgh theaters near you this year. This will also be sent to a couple festivals, we'll see if we can get a couple laurels for the team!

Thank you team ❤️

Laura Young
Kaleigh Fitzgerald
Tom Frey
Jesse Hutchins
Lucas Zarzeczny
Noah Aronson
Brian Ceponis
Mary Ruffalo
Faith Pongracz
Roger Gelik
Carmen Monroe
Kirk Botula
Holden Brandenstein
Jason Fitterer
Craig Wes Fisher
Jesse Kaufer

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05/27/2025

We are happy to announce music, composed by , and Sound Design, by Carmen Monroe, will be nearing an end.

We are expected to have this complete near the beginning of June and it will be released later this year. Stay tuned to where and when you can see it at your local Pittsburgh theaters! You might even see it at your local city's filmmaking festivals later this year

Who's excited to see it? Type "Aye!"

02/26/2025

Facebook is clearly mistaken 🙄 wow. Here we go.

01/22/2025

As we continue to showcase our crew for Face Your Demons, we’d like to introduce our Unit Production Manager and Executive Producer, Kaleigh Fitzgerald.

Kaleigh has had 16+ years of experience in the film industry. Some of her credit highlights include writing, directing, and producing her two part pilot Swipe - A Kaleigh Fitzgerald Series that is currently in the festival circuit along with distributing her feature film, The Way That I Am, on platforms such as APPLE TV and Amazon Prime.

If you’d like to learn more about Kaleigh and her company Bokeh Pictures LLC where she provides production consulting and story consulting services, please visit www.bokehpictures.com for more info.

Our team is excited to have her on board for this short.

01/21/2025

Looking forward to shooting this weekend. Help out our team by supporting the IndieGoGo page and spreading the word!

01/16/2025

We have another social media shout out to a Daisy Mewchanan. Thank you for your donation 🙏

Have you seen what's available for our perks? Click on the link and see what we offer!

When a woman attempts to get home from a party, her inner demons follow her. | Check out 'Face Your Demons' on Indiegogo.

01/14/2025

Here's an interview we had with Brian Ceponis, a great local Pittsburgh Actor making his mark in the world! Hear what Brian had to say about his career and the upcoming project he's going to be a part of!
We're very excited to have Brian on board as Brian is literally making a statue come to life in .

If you'd like to contribute to the film, please click the IndieGoGo and support our film, which will in turn support Brian and many other artists like Brian on this film.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/face-your-demons/x/38310745 #/

01/14/2025

Hey everyone!
Over the next couple days before production weekend, wanted to highlight some folks who are on the project.

Starting with Tom Frey, Tom is our Line Producer and Assistant Director for Face Your Demons short film

Tom Frey is an Assistant Director, Producer and Gaffer that has worked with multiple groups in the Pittsburgh film scene. Tom’s hope for his filmmaking career is to make films that dramatize the human condition in order to give the world a new perspective.

We're very happy to have him on the production and can't wait to see what future projects he's a apart of!

If you want to support Tom, or artists like Tom on this project, click on the IndieGoGo and contribute:

https://igg.me/at/6-EfIL2o9Rs/x/38310745 #/

01/10/2025

Laura Young has supported the film with a social media shout out. Thank you!

We are still looking for contributions to the film to help the people involved in this film. Get your perk today from our campaign for our latest project, Face Your Demons

01/03/2025

Hey everyone! Friendly reminder to like and follow our page! We have some exciting projects in our future and want to make sure you're in the loop!