Chamber Six Media

24/03/2025

Leaf Man is now on Letterboxd and IMDb! If the film moved you, and you’d like to support by logging, reviewing, liking, or- if you haven’t seen it yet- by adding it to your watchlist, it would be a tremendous help!

Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/REuK
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36157926/?ref_=mv_close

We just finished another excellent screening at the Minnesota Film Festival last week, and we continue to be blown away by the emotional responses audience members have shared with us. We’re currently working to organize our next screenings, so stay tuned!

21/03/2025

Thank you so much to Ely Film Festival and everyone who came out to attend Leaf Man and all the other great films featured this weekend. What a pleasure it was to screen to such an engaged full house, leading to fantastic conversations with filmmakers and audience members alike.

Encore screening of Leaf Man and the entire Creative Expressions block is this Wednesday at 4:00 pm so if you’re near Ely don’t miss it!

📸: Mitch McCallson

11/03/2025

A second screening of Leaf Man has been added to the Ely Film Festival!

Tickets: https://ticketing.elystatetheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=480276~49e1a34c-0302-4a79-be99-c8016e8c5f8f&

06/03/2025

Two weeks from today we will be bringing Leaf Man to Duluth for the Minnesota Film Festival! Our genre-bender will be playing as part of the Horror Shorts block on Thursday March 20th at 7:30 pm! Come hang out and enjoy some great films!

Tickets: https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=924358~3caba887-6339-4d39-ba50-c59f41657671&epguid=a62190a3-20bc-4f08-abdf-df2529960f6e

03/02/2025

TWIN CITIES: Your next chance to see Leaf Man is coming up in just a couple weeks as we were officially selected to be part of Grotesque Fest IV at Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater! We will playing on both nights along with another collection of great short films that they always put together.

Get your tickets here!
Night One: https://www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater/grotesque-fest-iv
Night Two: https://www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater/grotesque-fest-iv-2

07/12/2024

New video RED RIVER FLOOD for our pals in Shotgun Facelift!

Director: Kevin Ackley
Director of Photography: Oscar De Leon
Grip: Joe Medina

For this video we took the lenses off of a 1935 Bolex H-16 film camera and adapted them to one of our Blackmagic Cinema Cameras and got some cool results from experimenting with that. Check it out!

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03/12/2024

Leaf Man is heading to NYC for the Psychedelic Film and Music festival!

24/11/2024

New video from us and Shotgun Facelift coming soon!

20/09/2024

Tomorrow in the Twin Cities you can catch Leaf Man at the Restless Equinox Independent Film Fest! Check out the event link for tickets- we’d love to see you there!

05/09/2024

TWIN CITIES: Your next opportunity to see our existential adventure has finally arrived! On September 21st the fine folks at Cinema of the Macabre are putting on the inaugural Restless Equinox Independent Film Festival, screening a host of genre-bending horror-adjacent films at Emagine Willow Creek and we were selected to be part of it! You can buy passes for the whole day or just for the block you can attend, but don’t wait because tickets will be going fast! We hope to see you there!

17/07/2024

Thank you to everyone at SNAFF for a great screening and for our nomination for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film! It was such a great experience and we met so many wonderful people who love film. Also thank you to everyone who bought a shirt or other merch- it really means a lot!

11/04/2024

OFFICIAL LEAF MAN TRAILER

09/04/2024

Yesterday we announced Leaf Man, our next short film directed by Kevin Ackley! Check out the poster here and go like the page to stay in the loop. Trailer coming later this week!

Officially announcing LEAF MAN, the next short film from Kevin Ackley and Chamber Six Media Here is the poster designed by on instagram!

Leaf Man is a metaphysical monster movie following a man’s odyssey through a world of organic existential transformations. With momentum from a powerful shoegaze score, this wordless short film uses surreal and strange dual-roled characters to dance through the boundaries between ourselves, our surroundings, and each other in the search for a meaningful life.

Written and Directed by Kevin Ackley
Produced by Chamber Six Media
Starring Benny Barrett, Tyson Lietz, and Taressa Costello
Director of Photography Oscar De Leon
Edited by Andrew Leines
Prosthetic FX: Ryan Schaddelee, Beki Ingram, and Ben Gersch
Visual Effects by Gerry Kodo
Original Score by Antonio Johnson
Choreography by Jessika Akpaka
Foley by Steven Hammer
Additional Crew: Jose Medina, Billy Straub, Jack Beranek, Derek Bauer, Alex Bertsch, and Leo-Gabriel Matter
Guitar/Bass/Synth/Keys: Antonio Johnson
Drums: Kord Maurer
Mixing Engineer Antonio Johnson
Mastering Engineer: Neil McArthur