November 26, 2006

Returning from location shoots in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Livermore and San Diego, California (San Antonio, Texas too), Brent is closing in on a wrap for the initial production phase of the documentary titled, Always/Never.    One more week-long trip is scheduled for Washington, D.C. in December to gather interviews and some limited b-roll.    Brent has been working as Director of Photography and shooting in Sony's HDCAM format for the 2-hour documentary.

Brent has also been busy working on a second draft of his spec script, "Twin Paradox".

September 13, 2006

You can now view the production, "Meeting of the Mind" which Brent produced for the Sandia Labs Diversity program.   You can see it from the Broadcast/Marketing page.

September 12, 2006

Brent's 1st draft of his debut feature film screenplay, Twin Paradox, has made the second round at the Austin Film Festival screenplay competition.  Over 4,000 screenplays were submitted this year and the second round is comprised of just below 15% of those entries.

In other news, the United Blood Services videos Brent directed for Nomad Productions are now completed and Brent is leaving for another documentary shoot this week in Nevada.

August 14, 2006

Brent has been extremely busy lately.   Several projects are in various stages of development and production.    Among these, Brent began work on a large scale documentary for Sandia National Labs and last month started shooting in various locations across the nation.  Next week he will be shooting in Washington D.C. and then back to Albuquerque to finish the United Blood Services production by the end of the month.   Stay tuned for updates.  New video postings are coming soon as well.

May 26, 2006

You can check out new production stills here from the recent United Blood Services shoot for Nomad Productions.

April 29, 2006

Congratulations to director/producer Aracely Chapa and her documentary, "Fresco" for winning the Tricentennial Award for Best New Mexico Filmmaker at the "Sin Fronteras" Film Festival.   It was a pleasure for Brent to work as a graphic artist and animator on the documentary.

March 30, 2006

Brent has just finished writing the first draft of a spec screenplay entitled, "Twin Paradox."

February 19, 2006

The second award winning video was also produced for Sandia.   It won the Finalist Award at the New York Festivals 2006 International Film and Video Competition.

December 3, 2005

Enjoy the holidays.    Brent has been writing among other miscellaneous projects..

October 21, 2005

Brent has been very busy the last couple of months producing videos for ARCA, Animal Protection of New Mexico and several videos for Sandia National Laboratories.

August 24, 2005

More awards:   Brent Peterson has won five new 2005 Aurora awards for his productions at Sandia.   Three of the awards were the Aurora Platinum Best of Show, and two were Aurora Gold Awards.   Just Peachy happened to be one of the Best of Show winners.

July 31, 2005

Vacation is good for the soul.

June 1, 2005

Production has just wrapped on the New York Film Academy student short film, "The Little Blue Egg," written and directed by Josh Beck.    Brent served as Director of Photography on the 4-day shoot.

You can see a couple of shots and some stills from the film here or on the Short Films page.

May 6, 2005

 

Just Peachy has just won a prestigious 2005 Videographer Award, "Award of Excellence" in the Video Productions/Movie category of the competition.   Additionally, an Off the Clock episode titled "Sandia Caveman" won the same award in the Video Productions/Documentary category.   In the Government/Training category, "Foreign Visits and Assignments, You're on the Air" also came away with an "Award of Excellence".   Only 14 percent of this year's 2,293 national and international entries were given the "Award of Excellence."

In addition, an "Award of Distinction" was given to the production "Amy's Bad Day" and an "Honorable Mention" was given to another "Off the Clock" episode ("Skier").

All the above programs were produced by Brent Peterson for Sandia National Laboratories.

May 1, 2005

Stills are now up from the New Mexico Addy Awards production.   Brent worked as the Director of Photography on the project.   The video was shot with the Panasonic DVX100A.   You may view the still frames from the Commercials page on this website.

April 13, 2005

"The Line" has been selected for screening at the 2005 Harry M. Warner Festival of Short Film and Video.  The festival will be taking place on the campus of Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, PA on April 21, 2005 and in New Castle, PA on April 22, 2005.

March 15, 2005

Production has just wrapped on the Awards Presentation video for the New Mexico Addy Awards (New Mexico Advertising Federation Awards).  Brent served as the director of photography, bringing a 1950's film noir look to the production.   The video was produced and directed by Coby Dax at Comcast Spotlight Productions.

Stay tuned to this site for stills from the production.   Some will be posted  in the coming weeks after the awards show on March 26th..

January 09, 2005

The short film "Death Awaits" will screen at the The 4th London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film toward the end of the month..   See the festival's site for times, locations and more information.

The entire award winning short film "Just Peachy" has now been posted on this site.  You can watch it in Quicktime from the Short Films page.

December 01, 2004

The motivational video, "Working Together" directed for Sandia National Laboratories by Brent Peterson has received Finalist status in the New York Festivals 2005 International Film and Video Competition.   The festival will take place in New York City on January 26-30th.   You can watch "Working Together" from the Broadcast/Marketing page on this website.

November 18, 2004

The short film "Death Awaits" has been accepted and will be screening at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival.  Sci-Fi-London is the UK’s only film festival dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres and takes place during the last week in January.

October 24, 2004

The MarCom Creative Awards 2004 competition has given it's prestigious Platinum Award to the corporate short film, "Just Peachy", written, produced and directed by Brent Peterson.   The production, "Working Together", also produced by Brent Peterson, has received a Gold Award from MarCom.    Both productions were made for Sandia National Laboratories.

The MarCom Creative Awards is an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communications practitioners.   This year there were 3,344 entries worldwide.  Out of those entries only 15% won the Platinum Award and 16% won the Gold Award.

October 6, 2004

The 10th Annual Alibi Short Film Fiesta has officially selected "The Line" as one of 10 films to be screened in the category of  narrative film.    The selection was made from more than 100 films and videos sent in.  "The Line" will be screening specifically on Saturday October 16th at 3, 6, and 9pm at the historic Lobo Theater in Albuquerque, NM.

July 24, 2004

"The Line" has been completed and is now in the process of being sent out to film festivals.

July 24, 2004

The short film, "The Line", is nearing completion.   But last week Brent Peterson and Coby Dax of You Oughta Be in Pixels took time out to produce a music video for the A Perfect Circle "Blue" competition.   For more information see the APC website.   It was a whirlwind of a production - the whole video was shot in 7 hours and then posted in only 3 late late nights work in order to meet the deadline for the contest.   Despite the lack of time and the extensive visual effects involved, the production came off well.  You can see a portion of the video on the commercials page of this site.

June 7, 2004

Brent Peterson has just won two new Aurora Awards.   A "Gold" and a "Platinum Best of  Show" Aurora Award for two Sandia National Labs productions.

The Awards Winners may be awarded a "Platinum Best of Show" or a "Gold Award". The Best of show is the highest honor given. Only about one in ten receive this honor, while about two out of ten receive the Gold Award.

Work also continues on the CG closing shot for "The Line" and "The Merchandise" gets closer to a picture lock.

"Death Awaits" still reigns at #1 in the Dark Tales section over at  Urbanchillers.com

April 25, 2004

The 1:36 minute CG extension shot for the opening of "The Line" is now finalized.  Work will commence on the CG closing shot immediately.

March 23, 2004

Brent Peterson has just won 5 new Telly Awards for 3 "Off the Clock" segments and 2 other Sandia National Labs productions.

Rendering of the CG extension shot that will open the short film, "The Line" has begun and is about half-way done.   Work on the CG ending shot will begin thereafter.    Composer, Richard McCann has also signed onto the project and is starting work on an original score.

February 29, 2004

January 14, 2004

A rough-cut of the short film, "The Merchandise" has just been completed.  Pick-ups will be scheduled soon and Foley work will begin.    We are currently looking for a composer to produce a score.  If interested and have previous experience and sample work, please e-mail Brent Peterson.

Post-production on "The Line" also continues.  Photo realistic CG work for the open of the film is nearly complete and will begin a "marathon" 30+ day render soon.   Too bad we don't have access to Pixar's render farm.  Work on the closing shot - also a CG extension will begin immediately afterwards.

December 23, 2003

The "Off the Clock" series that Brent Peterson is producing for Sandia National Labs has achieved Finalist status in the New York festivals, 46th Annual International Film/Video awards competition.

Happy Holidays!

November 29, 2003

"The Merchandise" finished principal photography just in time for Thanksgiving.  Post-production has already begun.   Effects work on "The Line" also continues and is progressing well.

November 13, 2003

"Death Awaits" continues to be one of the most watched short films in the Urbanchillers.com "Dark Tales" section after more than a year (for the last few weeks at #1 of 80 films).    Go check it out.

Work on CG extension shots for "The Line" continue and production of "The Merchandise" is only a week away.

October 22, 2003

Pre-production is officially underway now for a short film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Cask of Amontillado.    "The Merchandise" is scheduled to be shot in late November.  The film will be produced through 9-Point Productions.

October 21, 2003

A rough-cut of the short film, "The Line" has now been completed and the creation of two CG extension shots have commenced at You Oughta Be In Pixels.

October 4, 2003

Peterson Productions and You Oughta Be In Pixels just finished production of the short film, "The Line", directed by Brent Peterson.   Post-production will commence shortly.  From there the film will be submitted to film festivals.