Hi!
I'm Michael Bernstein. I am a Voice123.com voiceover, an actor, and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. A few years ago, I made ten short films in ten weeks. In the course of each week I wrote, cast, shot, and edited a film, posting each one at 3pm on Friday--every Friday--from November 10th, 2006 through January 12th 2007.
Originally the films were hosted by Revver, an upstart video hosting service that tried to compete with YouTube. Revver's still around, but they seem to have imploded, and I'm in the process of uploading the films to my amplecatnap channel on YouTube.
Why ten films in ten weeks? I love to sit around dreaming about films I will make "someday." This project forced me to stop dreaming, and make some of them. When I first wrote this summary, I'd just finished my fourth film, and I was surprised at how much I'd gotten done so far. I never anticipated how ambitious I'd get--or how badly I'd fail--with film number nine. And how I would have to radically simplify things for the tenth and final film, discarding one finished script and writing another, completely different one, overnight.
Why Ample Catnap? Making movies takes a lot of time and work, and sometimes you don't sleep so well. So you take little catnaps. I hate missing sleep, so actually my catnaps are pretty long. Thus, Ample Catnap.