Films

• SAW: Redux

  • October 2009 to June 2010
  • Double Diamond Cinema, Cellar Door Productions
  • Team Members: Max Wronkowski, Samantha Delacruz, Luis Mejico 
  • Director, Lead Cast "Caden Grey", Co-Writer, Director of Photography, Co-cinematographer, Editor, Special Effects Artist, Stunt Coordinator, Continuity, Acting Coach.
  Film created for high school “20-Hour Art Show”, in which artists (or groups of artists) are to create works that they spend at least twenty hours of work on. Personal estimate of time spent on film exceeds 200 hours. Most immersive film project ever worked on.

• Eat Your Heart Out

  • February 2011 to June 2011
  • Double Diamond Cinema
  • Team Members: Max Wronkowski, Martina Bright 
  • Director, Co-Writer, Director of Photography, Cinematographer, Main Cast, Editor, Continuity, Location and Talent Scout.
  Film created for high school “20-Hour Art Show”. Fictional short film “mockumentary” documenting the trials and tribulations that “Zombies” face in Chicago. A social commentary on discrimination against homosexuals in society, using the Zombie Virus as a metaphor for HIV and the AIDs virus, and how it affects people of all origins and genders.

• Hysteria

  • March 2011 to April 2011
  • Double Diamond Cinema
  • Team Members: Max Wronkowski, Samantha Delacruz 
  • Director, Co-Writer, Director of Photography, Cinematographer, Lead Cast, Editor
  Short film rewritten and adapted from original screenplay by Delacruz and submitted for a scholarship. About the power and fragility of the human mind, and how easily it can be made to create a nightmare in one’s reality out of something non-existent, simply an idea.  
  
  

• Mannequin (Working Title)

  • November 2011 to Present
  • Team Members: Max Wronkowski, Gerardo Romero
  • Co-director, Co-writer, Co-editor, Lead Role "Alex"
  [Pre-production]
  This short film is based on the case of Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old student who committed suicide by jumping from the George Washington Bridge on 09/22/2010 after a series of events, including his college roommate broadcasting a live stream of him kissing another man.
  "Mannequin" follows Alex, a Chicago college student, who deals with hiding a secretive homosexual fling with the closeted Arturo. He deals with bullying, both physical and emotional, self-mutilation, and heartbreak before making a decision that would impact his friends and family, as well as many others, years after.

• Something's Not Right Here (webseries)

  • November 2011 to Present 
  • Double Diamond Cinema, _____________
  • Team Members: Max Wronkowski, Candace Johnson 
  • Co-director, Co-writer, Co-editing, Main Cast "Ryan Anderson"
  [Pre-production]
  A comedy webseries depicting a middle-class white family, with a black son. The two siblings Ryan and Benjamin Anderson decide to "play detective" to find out who Ben's real father is, getting into all kinds of trouble and misunderstandings along the way. Their attempts are not helped by Scott, their father, who would rather turn a blind eye to his wife, Emma, and her obvious infidelity.

• The Last 14 Days

  • December 2011 to Present 
  • Double Diamond Cinema, _____________
  • Team Members: Max Wronkowski, Samantha Delacruz 
  • Co-directing, editor, creative director, DP, co-starring "Ryan Brenner"
  [Pre-production] After a bioterrorism attack on Chicago failed to deploy, instead affecting a small Illinois nowhere-town, Amy and Ryan, two teenagers who seem to be plucked from the mind of author Bret Easton Ellis decide to develop and execute a bucket list to go out with a bang, before the radiation kills them. In a quarantined town where the adults are either numb or dead, the two go on a journey to discover what is left to find in life when you have your life ahead of you, just to have it narrowed down to two weeks.
  

  14 Degrees

  • December 2010 to Present 
  • Double Diamond Cinema

  • Team Members: Max Wronkowski, Samantha Delacruz 
  • Director, Writer, Editor, DP, Main Cast "Zak Gallo"

  [Pre-production] Chronicles a 7-day involuntary stay in less-than-ideal circumstances. After a car crash on their way home to Danville from a concert in Plainfield, Indiana, a group of teens find themselves stranded in the harsh winter weather, taking shelter in a forest preserve park shelter. The next morning, they find that they have been snowed in. With cabin fever and apparent psychoses breaking out in several of the gang, it's only a matter of time before someone rescues them... right? That is, if they don't kill each other first.