In the summer of 2006, my friends and I made a 77-minute buddy cop film entitled Haymaker & Sally. I wrote it and co-directed it with my friend Jason “Reidster” Reid. We shot most of it in seven days (going 14-18 hours a day), a practice I don’t recommend. The real police showed up while we were filming our shootout; a neighboring armored car company (occupying what we thought was an empty warehouse) notified them of a bunch of people waving around what appeared to be semi-automatic weapons (mostly spraypainted pellet guns). Six cars sped into the lot–while a helicopter hovered overhead–and the blues emerged, guns drawn, shouting orders for everyone to get on the ground. Despite this and other setbacks (actor no-shows, stolen $2000 monitor, etc.), we managed to get it finished and premiere it to a select few in New York and Seattle. It also showed at the 2008 Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival (STIFF).

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Haymaker & Sally from Jason Reid on Vimeo.