FANG | Feature Film
Chicago Sky View Productions | JACENKNET
Crew
Jason Kraynek – Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Gaffer, Storyboard Artist, Colorist
Chris Sato – AC, Grip
Chris Nawrocki – Sound
Nick Clemente – Sound
Robert Aguilar – Sound
Morgan Bass – Script Supervisor, Actor
Jarrett Wadley – Grip
Tresa Walker – AD
Robert Felker – Producer, Editor, Actor
Dymin Dasgupta – Art Dept
Dalton Devries – Grip
Caitlyn Young – Hair and Make-up, SFX
Pete Berwick – Composer, Actor
Zak Ferguson – Composer
Kyle Delso – Visual Effects
Brandon Grode – Visual Effects
Chad Halvorsen – Assembly Editor
Kellen Robinson – Stunt Coordinator
Awards | Fests
Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival
Buffalo Rising Film Festival
FANtastic Horror Film Festival
Midwest Monster Fest
Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival
Sawdust City Fright Fest
Shawna Shea Film Festival
Cast
Dylan Laray – Actor
Lynn Lowry – Actor
Jess Paul – Actor
Tom White – Actor
Pete Berwick – Actor
Glenn Mitchell – Actor
Nik Macik – Actor
Michael Angelo Gonzalez – Actor
Hilary Schwartz – Actor
Gabriel Fries – Actor
Louis DeRosa – Actor
Karen Donohue – Actor
Gabriel Solis – Actor
Sara R. Solis – Actor
Meghan Martinez – Actor
Gear | Production
CAMERAS – RED Dragon
LENSES – Canon CNE primes, Canon EF zooms
LIGHTS – Litepanels, Quasar Science, Kino Flo, Aputure, Hive
RIG – Easyrig, Shape, Wooden Camera, Ikan
It’s winter in Chicago and Billy Cochran (Dylan LaRay) can’t stop alienating the people around him. His mother Gina (Lynn Lowry) is in and out of the hospital and her mind is breaking down, caught between her glory days as a Southern belle and her current state of decay. One night, Billy gets an unexpected visitor: a rat that springs out of his bathroom and bites him.
At first, everything seems okay. Billy comes home, drowsy from the tetanus shot, and bonds with Gina’s lovely new caregiver Myra (Jess Paul). Then the rat fur appears. It grows out of Billy’s skin, then goes away like it was never there.
The more Billy looks in the mirror and scratches, the more he’s forced to face the unthinkable: he might be turning into a rat. Billy is plunged into a waking nightmare where he slowly discovers the truth about himself as he unleashes the ferocious depths of the human and rodent soul.
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FANG was a feature film shot on RED Dragon cinema cameras in early 2020 (right before the outbreak of the Coronavirus hit). I was contacted by the writer about being the Director of Photography for this project as well as putting together the production crew.
My first call was to longtime friend and filmmaker, Robert Felker, who came on as Producer (both of us ended up doing way more than our original roles).
We shot over the course of 1.5 months (21 shooting days) with a few pre-production months prior. Met some good people and am happy with my footage and grades from the project.
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