Rex Sikes' Movie Beat chats with filmmakers David Spies & Phil Seneker on Kickstarter

David Spies & Phil Seneker are working together to produce a short film “A Musing”. They are using Kickstarter to fund their project. We explore how that is going, & what they have learned.

David Spies has completed several screenplays that are each quite different in genre. He wrote the first draft of “A Musing” recently & registered with the WGA nine days later. David felt he had a screenplay definitely worthy of being produced so began to seek out a cinematographer to partner with.

After a local search for cinematographers in the Seattle area, David connected with Phil Seneker & from that day on there was no turning back. This will be David's first professional short film production as a writer & director.

Phil Seneker is a filmmaker, producer, screenwriter & director of photography.  Phil began his career in the film & video industry after studying acting. Phil started his production company in 1993 to create videos for corporate clients

Phil spent most of the ‘90’s & ‘00’s creating corporate videos, building his company, working on features, shorts, commercials & starting a family. 

He shot his first short film in 1998 entitled RATS! which went on to screen at 7 festivals around the world & won 3 awards including Best Dark Comedy. 

In 2003, Phil was accepted to the UCLA Online Professional Screenwriting Program & he completed two feature length screenplays while attending. His recent short screenplay was selected as a finalist in the Seattle Film School's Great American Short Screenplay Competition.
 
Phil is currently producing a feature length documentary, “Sisters Choice”, which is about two sisters & their choices when it comes to battling cancer.  Phil says production will be complete in October and the film completed in early 2011.  

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