u/mdifilm

I've been reading this sub for a while and comment whenever I can, so I thought I would do an intro about me. it will be a bit long, skip to the bottom if you want to just check out the features I've had distributed) lol

I'm a filmmaker in Cleveland, Ohio, making low to no budget films (shorts and features) for over 30 years, been fortunate enough to have all my films receiving some awards and shown all over, while features getting distribution, I've worked with some distributors that are shady and some good ones. Learned a bit how to talk to them to get any ROI, so most of my films distributed has broke even. I also executive produced a few friends' features and they were distributed as well by same distributor as mine and sadly they didn't do well as mine. probably because the CEO of this particular distributor likes me more lol

I've also been working full time since 2007, starting my video and event producing company here and have gotten some good clients, not to mention, also was a troubleshooters for many camera gears companies in China. I also own 3 editing suits, working mostly with Adobe product because of the different things we do here.

After 2020 things got a bit slower, and my video production company suffered, while the event production increased. So slowly gearing more into event producing than anything.

My genre that I do most are action and sci-fi films sometimes doing some horrors, and also ventured into a marital arts comedy musical :) You can watch all my shorts and some of the feature films on my YouTube channel or on amazon, Roku, Tubi, and some earlier ones can still be able to purchase them DVD for it.

Throughout the years I've collected a bit of lights (mostly received free for exchange of testing and posting reviews on my channel), and also now with 2 bmpcc4k, 1 gh7 and use them exclusively for filmmaking. My fav lenses are the Sirui MFT Anamorphic lenses,providing me some cool look.

If you are interested in checking my films, here are the titles

The Rapture (2007), this is a martial arts, sci-fi that it got my name out there, it's bad... lol but it did really well back then. Also my 2nd wire-stunt work we did here in Cleveland. (I now own all the wire-harnesses).

Innerself (2018) a marital arts comedy musical, fun and it got very depressed during editing but finally pulled myself together and got it done.

Immortal Combat the Code (2019) this name originally was called Wu Xia 2 the Code and the distributor changed it to be Immortal to try to 'capitalize' the Mortal Combat audience... It did well, broke even, however bad imdb reviews due to people think it was a Mortal Combat film.

Wu Lin The Society (2022), shot in in Fall 2020, same 'era' of the Wu Xia 2 The Code universes. It is more sci-fi and action together, did well, broke even, now the distributor when sending me the report keen showing negative or $0 so don't think it will go anywhere.

Bullets, Brothers and Blood (2024), this was filmed during spring time, 4 weeks before these, I had a health emergency and was in the hospital for 3 days. It was due to high blood pressure and heart issue. They released me and gave me meds to help, I was very weak and not being able to function well, so this was shot with help of the cast/crew rallying together and made it happened. Editing took about 6 months. It's an action/drama, new distributor and new poster design that the distributor felt it would do well, this distributor is mostly digital platform unlike the one before that also do dvd sales around the world. Sadly the ROI is bad, while having some good reviews, it wasn't watched as we hope so, for example, Tubi report showed only under $1000 each quarter. Note, you don't get the report until 30 days or 60 days after the quarter is over. some quarter was just a few hundreds.

So, now I'm venturing onto my final feature length film as my health has not improved but at least steady but it's just tired for me to do anything... This time, planning to do a crowdfunding and we will be filming this fall/winter. This time will be Supernatural/Action film inspired by many films I've seen from Asia.

For me, I can do it low to no budget (cash expenses) because we own all the equipment, we own all the post production, and locations are all donated as I've been around enough that people know who I am and willing to help. We do spend well for catering (Chinese, etc.)

Anyway, this is getting long, thanks for reading, be happy to answer some of the questions if I can.

Hi all. Quick introduction. Been making indie low to no budget films in Cleveland for over 30 years now. Been fortunate to have all my features distributors and most has broken even. Due to health, I’m going to do one more feature film and this time venturing into crowdfunding. It’s a new territory so if anyone got any pointer, please suggest.

I’m using seed and spark for this final feature film.

Update. Turns out in messager you also need to turn preview on to see it.

So. I noticed recently about a month ago. The glasses no longer reading out the messages from Facebook. All it said was

Xxxxxx send you a message

Or

Xxxxxxx send you a message something went wrong

It would not read it out as it used to be.

Anyone got any solution?

I do have my messages ser to not to be active.

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Hey everyone — I’m excited to share that the 15th Annual International Horror Hotel Film Festival is coming up June 18–21, 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Cleveland Airport.

We’ve got four packed days of horror, suspense, sci-fi, queer cinema, Ohio films, screenings, panels, special FX, screenwriting, acting, film scoring competitions, awards, and late-night networking events. We’re also bringing back crowd favorites like Filmmaker Bingo with WIFTOH, the Scream Queen/Scream King competitions, costume contest, FX makeup competition, and our networking karaoke party.

If you’re into indie film, horror culture, or just love being around creative people who really get it, this is one of those weekends you don’t want to miss. It’s always a great mix of films, conversation, and community, and I’m looking forward to another amazing year.

More info: HorrorHotelFilmFest.com