Last month, I worked in a SAG National TV commercial with Terri Timely Studio. The commercial was for IBM and it is now available online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWoFMSf73g

I believe it was also shown on TV during the recent Masters of golf tournament but I didn’t watch it to check. Let me know if you saw it!

Even though I worked for two days as a principal actor on this shoot, I hardly appear in the final edit (I am hidden under the green umbrella, and the dad that you can catch a glimpse of in the last shot). Still, it was a very fun shoot, and a great experience, with an incredible set design and production quality.

On other news, I just moved to West Hollywood! My agent, Stars Agency, will continue representing me with its LA division. I joined an exciting company called Maker Studios, that produces videos and empowers artists to create videos for Youtube and other internet venues. With 70 million subscribers, 650 million monthly views, and over 400 youtube channels, it is definitely one of the major players in the entertainment revolution that is currently happening.

Thanks to all of you who attended the premiere of “The Life of Eric Richards’ at the Castro Theater on March 3rd, for the 16th Scary Cow Festival. It was awesome witnessing the audience’s laughter and reactions to the film. The results of the award competition were just announced and our film won:

 General Audience Award for Best Film
 Scary Cow Member’s Award for Best Film
 Best Directing
 Outstanding Writing
 Outstanding Cinematography
 Outstanding Editing
 Outstanding Lighting

The total winnings from this festival is a budget of $1750 that we can use towards our next film production. Thanks and congratulations to everyone who participated in this project (full cast and crew available here) and made it all possible.

Last weekend, I was very grateful to play an interesting and challenging leading role in ‘The Final Shutter’, a short drama written and directed by Hyunsook Oh, a former TV producer/director at KBS. It was her thesis film for the Academy of Art and I was impressed by the talent of everyone on set and the high quality of the production. The film was shot on a Red Camera, expertly operated by a camera/lighting crew composed for the most part of experienced Academy of Art alumni, lead by award winning Director of Photography Natalie Weiss.

The cast was a joy to work with! Brittany Williams gave a wonderful performance in the leading female role of Jess, the dedicated assistant of a renowned artist (played by me). As my character becomes more and more obsessed with creating a true masterpiece, hers grows equally obsessed and desperate for his love. Their respective obsessions lead them on a spiral of destruction.

I also enjoyed performing with veteran theater actor/director Stephen Maddox, fellow Beverly Hill Playhouse acting student, Yuliya Kutsopey, and actor/singer Patrick Joseph Maloney.

The film should be complete in April and hit the festival circuit later this year.

 

My first film production, ‘The Life of Eric Richards’, that I also wrote and acted in, is now complete! It will be premiered at the Scary Cow film festival, at the majestic Castro Theater in San Francisco on March 3rd, 2012, at 3pm.  In addition, it will be released online shortly.

Tickets for the screening event are available for purchase now at http://screening.scarycow.com/.

More information about the event is available at http://www.facebook.com/events/325929210778046/

Hope to see you there!

I recently booked the lead role in two short film productions that I look forward to perform in. The two characters I will be playing have one thing in common: they are both “bad guys”!

In the first film, “The Final Shutter”, written and directed by Hyunsook Oh and produced by Jason Mildwurm of Midgard Productions, I will portray a talented and renowned photographer, who becomes obsessed with capturing true emotions on film. His quest for perfection is unfortunately not always compatible with the well being of people around him…

In the second film, “Dinner Guest”, written and directed by Hassan Moore, I will play a French man at a dinner party who is seemingly charming and pleasant but has a secret and dark agenda.

 

Check out my new acting demo reel, which I compiled using films made in 2011 and before. Any feedback is more than welcome, as I am constantly adding new material and re-editing this reel.

More details about the reel here: http://www.philippedebaty.com/videos/demo-reel/.

Merry Christmas to all of you and best wishes for 2012! For the new year, I decided to start sharing my experiences and learnings from making my own film (The Life Of Eric Richards) on my production company’s blog: www.dreammethodproductions.com.

I just published the first post of the series, and it is about writing your script. I invite you to check it out and contribute your own experience and tips so that we can all learn from each other and make better films. I look forward to watching the great films you will hopefully make in 2012!

I was cast in the lead role in an intense short drama written and directed by Navjyot Bandiwadekar. Navjyot is a film student at the SFSDF, which is where I took my very first acting class years ago. I am looking forward to work again with Heather Ryan, the leading lady in the film, who was my co-star in Un-disguise and was a key contributor and actress in my recent production “The Life of Eric Richards“. The film tells the story of a breakup that is not as it seems.