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Sep 8, 2020 · Interview with writer/director/producer Michael Caissie about his latest movie Hunter's Moon, as well as all aspects of indie filmmaking.
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Aug 27, 2020 · New horror Hunter’s Moon is here, and we spoke to writer, director and producer Michael Caissie about his directorial debut and what inspired him to make the film.
Michael Caissie (@michael.caissie) • Instagram photos and videos. 0 Followers, 598 Following, 189 Posts - Michael Caissie (@michael.caissie) on Instagram: "Filmmaker. Hangman, Sin Origen, Devil’s Trap, Hunter’s Moon, Purgatory, No Tears in Hell, The Island"
- How Did Hunter’s Moon Come to be?
- Where Did The Idea Come from?
- This Is Your Feature Directorial Debut. Was It Always The Plan to Direct It?
- How Did Filming Start, and What Was The Experience?
- What Was The Most Challenging Day Or Experience on The Film?
- We Have to Ask About This! You Co-Wrote Hangman Starring Al Pacino…
- What’s Next For You?
- What Do You Hope Audiences Take Away from Hunter’s Moon?
It’s an interesting story. At the time, I was running restaurants in Los Angeles and I opened up a restaurant in Orange County, working ridiculous hours, sometimes 80-90 hour weeks. I said to my wife I was barely seeing the family, or doing any writing anymore, which was a real shame. However, my script for Hangmanhad at least been optioned and it ...
Hunter’s Moonis a female empowerment movie. I was raised predominantly by my mother and grandmother and all the women I know are strong, interesting and three dimensional so it’s something I try to bring to my writing. I don’t like seeing weak or poorly developed women on screen, and I certainly don’t want to be responsible for films like that. I u...
I originally wrote it to try and sell it. My manager, Christopher Sherman, who is also a producer on the film, took it and ran with it. I’d been doing a bunch of ghost jobs for directors and one director I worked with said the script was so good, we should put both our names on it, and asked if I had any interest in producing? I said yes! Once Chri...
We went to Kentucky to begin filming. Originally, we started shooting in 2017 and wanted to shoot as much as we could with the money we had, with a plan to cut a pitch trailer and show the production value. I felt like I knew what I was doing and that the label ‘first time director’ is just a phrase. In that process we also ended up re-casting the ...
The most challenging time was the first night working with Thomas Jane because he had been away and was delayed flying back in stormy weather, so the poor guy was stuck at the airport. He was pretty late on the first night of shooting, so I had the stress of having this famous actor, who I really admire and who’s an integral part of the movie, arri...
Yeah, I wrote the script with Charles Huttinger who is a good friend and we’ve written a bunch of scripts together. Charles came up with the concept years ago and we originally wrote it as a found footage movie. It was optioned by producer Arnold Rifkin and, in the process of doing re-writes and getting a director attached, the found footage concep...
Right when the pandemic hit, I was in Armenia filming a TV show called Purgatory with Clayton Turnage who was also a producer on Hunter’s Moon. I wrote 16 episodes and was co-directing but we had to stop half-way, so we’ve turned it into two seasons of eight episodes and filmed enough to get our initial eight episodes out. We’ll go back later to fi...
I set out to make a fun movie and the cast really brought that to life. I think we live in a culture now where so many people have an expectation of what things should be like and are quick to tear everything down if they don’t like it. All we tried to do was create something fun, albeit with a limited budget and a great cast. I see it as being sim...
Director's week continues we meet Michael Caissie and discuss his career and how he made a werewolf film with a happy ending as well as his new film "No Tear...
Michael Caissie. Writer: Contingency. Michael Caissie is known for Contingency, Wrath and Hangman (2017).
Michael Caissie was born and raised in Massachusetts. The oldest of two boys raised primarily by their mother, he studied business at Boston College, before ...
