20/08/2018
An announcement from Cinemagine Studios (formerly Charlatan Studios):
In fall of 2007, myself, Brian Harrison Mack, and Douglas Lamore, made our first short film "Homemaker." It was a fun ride, and several films later we had our first festival entry at the 2009 Palm Spring Int'l Shortfest and won the "Hard C High Five to Low-Fi Award" for "Best Low Budget Short Film"–an award co-sponsored by Jason Reitman.
About twenty-plus films and eleven years later, we've come to a crossroads–Douglas Lamore is now retired from the short film game (he and I are still writing together and pitched a series pilot to a top entertainment company here in Los Angeles earlier this summer) but I am taking the now discontinued film collaboration Charlatan Studios, and creating something new and different:
Cinemagine Studios will be a short-form, online, "micro-studio" (think "micro-brewery with online video"). We will create webshorts and webseries with the sole method of exhibition being ONLINE viewing.
Our webshorts and webseries will be free to view–we'd rather our audience see our work and become fans rather than have to pay–we instead encourage our viewers to buy any merchandise or SWAG they find suits their fancy and more importantly to spread the word about Cinemagine Studios!
Like a micro-brewery we will have a specific flavor for our films/series–we will focus on narrative fiction similar to the Charlatan Studios brand of quirky, offbeat, dark comedies.
We will carry on the tradition started by myself and Douglas and keep it short, odd, funny, and strictly online (with few exceptions).
We thank you our fans, supporters, friends, and family and look forward to new adventures in short filmmaking!
Stay tuned for more webshorts and webseries!
Best,
Brian Harrison Mack
Cinemagine Studios