Hi!
I'm Michael Bernstein. I am a Voice123.com voiceover, an actor, and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. 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.
The films are hosted by Revver, an upstart video hosting service that competes with YouTube. (It's funny to live in a world where YouTube's competition can be called an "upstart.")
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.