PROJECTS
Jackman is a paranoid adventure that reveals the extraordinary imagination of a young man's fear just before he opens the door to his own surprise party.
Life is difficult for Ana. Desperate for resources, and struggling with nascent adulthood in machista Mexico, she...
David Allan Coe is something of a deity among the Harley-Davidson, Jack Daniels and Confederate flag set. With twenty-four years served behind bars-in and out of the corrections system from the age of nine, and on death row at nineteen.
A college Professor morphs into Teddy Rosevelt after accidentally killing his daughter’s lover.
Through the eye of Hurricane Odile, comes the story of 77 Oxxos destroyed by the storm and the humorous tales of the people’s experience in how they saw the storm through the eye of their local convenience store.
If you had 6 weeks to live, how would you spend that time? If you’ve lived 10,000 years what could you do to find that spark of living to make it worthwhile?. Old and bored, an immortal posts an internet ad offering a 100 million dollar prize to the team of “witch” hunters who can capture and or kill the monster living in his city.
A young Magdalena decides to create a safe haven for prostitutes to help give them direction 16 year old Magdalena envisions and single handedly implements a safer, better way for sex workers in Cabo San lucas, Mexico, putting her in direct conflict to the dark world of drugs, pimps, and the brokers of traditional prostitution.
In his zeal to create a weight loss drug, an over zealous scientist infects himself with a virus, turning himself into a contagious cannibalistic monster with a conscience. (Psychological thriller)
A struggling production company hits pay dirt with their new reality tv series when the staff realizes that their office SOFA is a portal through which the dead can speak to the living.
"It doesn’t hurt, anymore." Is the story about Cricket, a confused teenager, amateur scientist, budding romantic...a boy with a big problem: his mother's cancer. In his struggle to save his mother, he invents a serum that leads to his own addiction, failed romance, and ultimately having to face his mother's mortality.
How strangers learn to cope being locked in a water tight Bulkhead in a sinking ship.
J finds modern knight K for assistance in search of his stolen beloved dog.
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Jackman is a paranoid adventure that reveals the extraordinary imagination of a young man's fear just before he opens the door to his own surprise party.
Life is difficult for Ana. Desperate for resources, and struggling with nascent adulthood in machista Mexico, she doesn't know where to turn. When she finds a bag of money, Ana believes her dreams have been answered. But, as she'll find out, life is rarely so simple, with possible severe repercussions for her family. The owners of the money want it back, and have sent a merciless "fixer" named Mataoh to clean up the mess, including setting the incompetent toughs straight who lost the bag in the first place. Ana's only hope for survival is her is Tia Naomi. "NA," a tough woman raised in the desert, has a reputation for meting out justice to sexist men who abuse women. Who will find Ana first?
David Allan Coe is something of a deity among the Harley-Davidson, Jack Daniels and Confederate flag set. With twenty-four years served behind bars-in and out of the corrections system from the age of nine, and on death row at nineteen.
A college Professor morphs into Teddy Rosevelt after accidentally killing his daughter’s lover.
Through the eye of Hurricane Odile, comes the story of 77 Oxxos destroyed by the storm and the humorous tales of the people’s experience in how they saw the storm through the eye of their local convenience store.
If you had 6 weeks to live, how would you spend that time? If you’ve lived 10,000 years what could you do to find that spark of living to make it worthwhile?. Old and bored, an immortal posts an internet ad offering a 100 million dollar prize to the team of “witch” hunters who can capture and or kill the monster living in his city.
A young Magdalena decides to create a safe haven for prostitutes to help give them direction 16 year old Magdalena envisions and single handedly implements a safer, better way for sex workers in Cabo San lucas, Mexico, putting her in direct conflict to the dark world of drugs, pimps, and the brokers of traditional prostitution.
In his zeal to create a weight loss drug, an over zealous scientist infects himself with a virus, turning himself into a contagious cannibalistic monster with a conscience. (Psychological thriller)
A struggling production company hits pay dirt with their new reality tv series when the staff realizes that their office SOFA is a portal through which the dead can speak to the living.
"It doesn’t hurt, anymore." Is the story about Cricket, a confused teenager, amateur scientist, budding romantic...a boy with a big problem: his mother's cancer. In his struggle to save his mother, he invents a serum that leads to his own addiction, failed romance, and ultimately having to face his mother's mortality.
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HEAD CHEF
I was raised and lived in Chapel Hiill for 35 years and consider myself a proud southern boy. In 2009 I picked up my life and moved to Baja California in Mexico. The past 11 years I’ve been writing my next film projects, and catching large yellow fin tuna on mostly calm sunny days (a few hurricanes thrown in for good measure). 2020 brought the re-awakening of my filmmaking desires, consummated with the opening of the Mexican Banzai! production office here in San Jose, the hiring of a creative production team, all to satisfy that deep, deep creative thirst that became dry from living here in the Baja desert. In my younger years I was a world class Tae Kwon Do fighter; the methodical and at times painful preparation building up to “leaving it all on the mat” approach, regardless of outcome, continues to define my daily routine, so nicely put in the title of one my favorite movies “You Can’t take it with you!”. I am happiest when running at a frenetic pace. I believe that storms of activity are the mother of creative and unexpected solutions and that the greatest indignity to the human spirit is boredom.
PRODUCER
I am a 28 year old filmmaker born and raised in San José del Cabo. I went to film school in Guadalajara, a life changing decision. That decision made me fall in love with cinema, with art and again with life. I see movies as I see life, it's beautiful to get to know every filmmakers perspective (and actors) through each of the movies they make. Cinema has opened up my own perspective of life and its expanding everyday through every new movie I see and make.
CINEMATOGRAPHER
I enjoy my work because my creativity flows to the maximum when producing content for the delight of others.
PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
I am a resilient, committed and organized professional, with 5 years of experience in fictional short films, documentaries and broadcast television, specialize in production and cinematography. Telling stories that move our hearts and give us chills, that take us to unknown places and make us discover the parts of our being that we had forgotten, that is my goal, to be able to make those stories, and create those worlds.
PRODUCER
For me the most important thing in life is to find something that you are passionate about and that gives meaning to existence. Telling stories and creating new realities are the things I love the most about making movies, I hope to be dedicated to this endeavor for the rest of my life.
We are cinematic stories tellers. We brainstorm, edit, scream, pull our hair out, and create what we hope will be engaging movies/series and documentaries in a variety of genres. We are only limited by Juan’s exploding head when it gets too active from the heat of his cellular high bandwidth thinking.
We have mid to high end video audio equipment for in-house productions. At times the staff will be glad to take a day or two to assist misc productions from short films, to industrials, to weddings to make in a little extra income. All equipment rental comes with one or two people for support and will require an equipment deposit for possible damage. We are a BlackMagic production house with multiple camera options, along with an editing suite utilizing Davinci Resolve Studio.
As stated. We are here to produce, create, direct, finish projects that came from our tiny little brains here in the office (minus Juan’s big brain). We are open to increasing the production team (right now we are specifically looking for an experienced editor/story teller/writer to expand our knowledge base). We also encourage people to join us in the adventure, to learn along the way while becoming part of a production team. PAs (production assistants) are a part of moving up the ladder and we are open to anyone who has time and creative energy to come volunteer to learn how to be a filmmaker.