In the summer of 2006, my friends and I made a buddy cop film entitled Haymaker & Sally. I wrote it and co-directed it with my friend Jason “Reidster” Reid. It’s feature-length (around 75-80 minutes), but 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–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 will be showing at Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) on June 6th at 4:00 PM at the Rendezvous and on June 11th at 9:30 PM at the Central Cinema. Get more info and buy tickets here.
Watch the trailers below, then see and read more at our official site and be our myspace friend. Also, you can find all my posts about the movie here.