"The Reel Job" (screenplay) wins the Writers' Room Invitational at AOF

Last night, AOF International Film Festival held their Writers' Room Invitational and the script I worked on took home the grand prize!

The group consisted of writers from all over North America and the script was passed along from writer to writer, each providing a page of the story for the next writer to continue from. Alix Reeves, Neil Chase, myself and Michelle Muldoon wrote a funny script based on Neil's initial concept.

Tonight is the last night of the festival, with the awards dinner and a final after party. This has been a great festival and I'm already looking forward to next year.

Contingency at AOF Film Festival Tonight!

Contingency is screening tonight at the AOF International Film Festival in Pasadena, California. Actress Annie Boon, nominated for AOF's Breakout Action Star award, will be in attendance. I will be attending as well and on a Q&A panel after the block of films has commenced.

I'm terrified of public speaking, so this will be interesting...

You can pre-purchase your tickets to the screening here

"The Story of Frank" Screenplay is a Finalist at the 2011 Alaska Int. Film Festival

The 2011 Alaska International Film Festival announced their awards today and my feature length screenplay titled The Story of Frank has been listed as an Official Finalist! The Story of Frank follows a young boy named Jimmy who discovers an 8-foot giant living in the woods and takes him home to live in his tree house, unaware of his recent escape from a mental institution outside of town. As more and more escapees arrive into town and wreak havoc on the locals, Jimmy must choose whether to keep hiding his new best friend or send him home where he belongs.

I'm honored to have my screenplay as a finalist in Alaska International Film Festival and am looking forward to continuing the festival circuit for this screenplay (as well as a handful of edits to the story). Congratulations to all of the winners and Finalists at the festival.

AOF Film Festival Starts Tonight!

The Action on Film International Film Festival starts tonight and two films from Synthetic Human Pictures are set to screen. Tension of Skin, a dark drama about relationships, is set to screen Monday night (July 25) at the 6pm block and will be attended by actress Davina Joy. Contingency screens on Thursday (July 28) at the 7:45pm block. Actress Annie Boon has been nominated for Best Breakout Action Star for her role in Contingency. Check out the AOF 2011 video below for more details. It's going to be a great week of independent film!

Urban Asian at IIFA Awards

I recently had the pleasure of working with UrbanAsian.com on a series of videos, covering the IIFA Awards in Toronto. This was the first time working with this group and it was a great experience editing their footage. Check out the highlight video below:

All of the videos can be seen here

Something Different This Way Comes

Over the next couple of weeks, StephenKrystek.com will see a major facelift. Nothing lasts forever and we tend to grow out of things as quickly as we grow into them, and I don't feel the site represents what I love doing anymore, hence the changes. Simplicity is the key word to the new site. Now, I guess its time to start designing and coding it. And hopefully I'll figure out a way to embed this blog into the site so that I'm not the only human reading this text.

Happy Fourth of July weekend!!!