The Brave and the Kind: A film by John W. Yost

So I’m going to try and start something here that will hopefully take off a bit and be a cool experiment in keeping a conversation going. In the last few years I have had the pleasure of not only making films, but talking to others outside of my upstate new york bubble about indie filmmaking and the state of DIY art making. One of these souls is Donnacha Coffey, an Irish filmmaker and lover of all things indie. Donnacha saw my first film and tried to get in touch with me…but I never got the email. (which is the total truth…scouts honor.) He tried again…and thank goodness…we have now been in constant contact about film and life. Read more >>

The one film that started it all, is now posted up everywhere and on this site. “Fog” was a short film I shot in 2004 right out of college. We shot it in one weekend with all my friends from the Maine Workshops. (I worked there for 8 months right out of school.) It was shot with the Panasonic SDX-900 and was my first real experience with video as a possible substitute for film. Read more >>