Circle B Productions, Sacramento, CA (2025)

05/05/2025

We had a great time with my Capital Film Arts Alliance (CFAA) colleagues at the "Cast and Crew Call" day for Access Sacramento's "A Place Call Sacramento." Many new folks signing up for our monthly newsletter. Dozens of meaningful conversations with attendees concerning our Screenwriting Lab, Actors Workshop and Film Forum.

04/19/2025

Last Saturday April 12th, Circle B Productions was thrilled to aid with the production of a short script written by our good friend Sherri Z. Heller who has contributed to both of our 3D Photorealistic Animated Feature films as voice over talent. Sherri created and directed her script called "Songs and Secrets" though the CFAA Screenwriting Lab's new program called Micro Filmmaking Initiative which helps writers get their short scripts made into micro short films. Two more CFAA microfilms will be enter production in the upcoming weeks and Circle B Productions will be there to lend a helping hand.

04/07/2025

When we wrote the award-winning script for our film Singlewide Pride, we thought it would be simple to produce as a 3D-animated feature film. The action takes place in a small town in Northern California, centered around the hijinks of a handful of characters who live in a trailer park.

What we overlooked, though, was the number of scenes that take place in cars as various characters snoop, argue, plot, or otherwise misbehave as they drive from Point A to Point B. This means we can either choose a lot of cheesy closeups with blurred out backgrounds, or we can build a more detailed world to serve as background scenery. We chose the latter.

Here are five more stills of the Commercial/Industrial Zone in Singlewide Pride that we promised to post a few months ago following the initial unveiling of this work. As previously reported, necessary Circle B Productions business issues robbed us of our precious social media time, but we're back on the sniff.

It's been a fun creative challenge to build this world for our quirky, lovable characters to live in. The Commercial/Industrial Zone is the last neighborhood we need to complete. There have been more than a dozen others, ranging from the Twilight Mobile Home Park, to a remote apple orchard, to a downtown marina.

02/27/2025

We realize it's been nearly a month since we posted any new social media images from our 3D Photorealistic Animated Feature Film "Singlewide Pride." Rest assured that doesn't mean the work has slowed down on this project. In fact, it's been just the opposite, with the work pace intensifying. We have a backlog of exciting images to share, which unfortunately were moved to the back burner as more pressing issues needed our immediate attention.

2024 was a real exhausting year for the legal side of our business. First, we had to solve our computer hardware issues that began in 2023 and ballooned into a major impediment to production in 2024. We had purchased a custom built animation computer for $8,000 in January 2023. The expensive PC never worked properly, sometimes crashing dozens of times a day. After months of some intense finger pointing and threatening legal communication the manufacture opted to provide us a substantial reimbursement, which we used to make other computer arrangements. We are now producing great results in a timely fashion.

We were feeling marvelous until April of 2024 when we started getting nasty grams from the Franchise Tax Board indicating we had thirty days to file revised Circle B Productions tax returns for 2020 or they would unilaterally determine our tax. Try to hire a CPA firm in April to make emergency corporate tax filings. We contacted 25 CPA firms who all said thanks, but no thanks. Finally, we were able to hire a firm in San Francisco. It wasn't cheap, but they refiled all our Circle B Tax Returns for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 for both the Franchise Tax Board and the IRS.

Once again we felt incredible, until we started getting the demands for immediate payment of penalties from the IRS and the Franchise Tax Board for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. This failure to properly file our tax returns cost us thousands of dollars and a great deal of embarrassment, but last week we turned in our information to our San Francisco CPA firm so we can get our 2024 taxes done correctly and on time. The experience wasn't all bad. Like they say "In every dark cloud there can be silver lining." Part of that process for our 2024 tax filings involved learning Quick Books so we could provide accurate Profit and Loss Statements. With some planned additional training we'll be prepared to accurately track our expenses and future income from our released films.

With these critical business and legal issues in the rearview mirror we can get back to creating. Here are 4 images of the cemetery in "Singlewide Pride." It's featured in 2 scenes: once when Leslie dies, and again when Art is trying to figure out what happened to the money she embezzled. You can expect exciting new social media posts with increasing frequency.

01/28/2025

When we wrote the award-winning script for our film Singlewide Pride, we thought it would be simple to produce as a 3D-animated feature film. The action takes place in a small town in Northern California, centered around the hijinks of a handful of characters who live in a trailer park.

What we overlooked, though, was the number of scenes that take place in cars as various characters snoop, argue, plot, or otherwise misbehave as they drive from Point A to Point B. This means we can either choose a lot of cheesy closeups with blurred out backgrounds, or we can build a more detailed world to serve as background scenery. We chose the latter.

Here are stills of the Commercial/Industrial Zone in Singlewide Pride. This is work in progress, nearing completion. Things like curb painting and road strips are subject to change, as well as essential like color grading and lighting. The signage for the many shops and businesses has been time-consuming to create, from an "Eat at Joe's" sign faded on a brick building, to a "Drink Stehl Ale" billboard on a factory wall.

Of course, Stehl Ale is our hero Art Perfect's drink of choice. His sidekick Tony would prefer the delicacies sold at the Gordo Green's dispensary - if only he weren't on parole.

It's been a fun creative challenge to build this world for our quirky, lovable characters to live in. The Commercial/Industrial Zone is the last neighborhood we need to complete. There have been more than a dozen others, ranging from the Twilight Mobile Home Park, to a remote apple orchard, to a downtown marina.

Now we're looking forward to wrapping up this phase of the project soon and moving on to the next one - continuity for these varied sets. Stay tuned.

01/04/2025

These are stills from the latest work on our 3D-animated feature film, Singlewide Pride. When our custom mega-computer died in the middle of last year, we lost some of our project files. One of them was the interior for attorney Patrick Stamper's double wide trailer, and the backup file was out of date.

It's taken several workdays (including New Year's Eve and New Year's Day) to re-furnish the place, but we feel it's homier than ever. We especially love the Buddhist touches - the Tibetan prayer flags and the Laughing Buddha above the stove. Talk about happy meals! (Hey, make me one with everything.)

These spiritual touches are appropriate for Patrick. He's the grounding force in our comedic drama, offering the hero Art a gentle shove in the right direction. In fact, Patrick supplies the theme of the movie when he asks Art, "How far would you go to do the wrong thing for the right reason?"

In the scene depicted, however, Patrick is anything but grounded. He tearfully confesses to Art over dinner the reason that he lives in these shabby digs instead of a palatial manor.

Patrick once defended a guilty drug king who later accidentally killed a little girl in an auto accident. Out of remorse, Patrick gave up his glitzy law practice. Instead he chose to live just above the poverty line in the run down trailer park that's home to all the quirky major characters in Singlewide Pride.

Make sure to review the captions as we have posted relevant lines from the actual script to increase your enjoyment.

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01/01/2025

Wishing Everyone a Happy and Healthy 2025.

12/19/2024

We had our Capital Film Arts Alliance (CFAA) Board Member holiday dinner last night at The Cheesecake Factory in Sacramento. It's a real honor to be involved with a Nonprofit organization dedicated for over 20 years to helping the Indie Film Community in our Sacramento Region. All the folks you see in these photos, and three not pictured due to schedule conflicts, volunteer our time to be a resource to all CFAA members as they progress through their filmmaking journey.

We all have different areas of expertise, but each of us lends our skills to all three of our program meetings each month. The second Tuesday of the month is our Actors Workshop. The third Tuesday is our Filmmakers Forum and the fourth Tuesday is the Screenwriting Lab, which I run with the help of Dawn Spinella and Steve Orcino. All our meetings begin at 7PM at the Imported Studios facility located at 1767 Tribute Road Suite J in Sacramento.

12/15/2024

This evening, I attended the Clout Winterfest Film Festival in Sacramento, where I had the opportunity to connect with indie filmmakers and listen to thought-provoking speakers, while also enjoying the innovative films showcased, which ranged from humorous to emotionally moving.

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