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PAGE A8, KEIZERTIMES, NOVEMBER 2, 2018 PROSPECT, continued from Page A1 police scanner primary antagonists, Ezra. In the run up to wide release, Prospect was receiving glowing reviews, but it’s been a long road to get to this point. In 2012, Earl and Caldwell put together a crowd-funding campaign to fi lm Prospect as a short fi lm that could be used to pitch a feature-length movie. The pair started with a goal of $18,000 and closed it out with more than $21,000 in pledges. Prospect, the short fi lm, focused more on the father-daughter relationship that ended up as the jumping off point for the feature. “The short fi lm was written as its own independent thing. We probably should have written the feature fi lm fi rst and cut it down but we didn’t realize it at the time,” Earl said, laughing at the circumstances in retrospect. Crowd-funding the short fi lm also put Earl and Caldwell in touch with a number of volunteers who helped produce it. The short debuted at SXSW in 2014. “Then it took three years after that to fi nd the funding for the feature-length movie,” Earl said. “We wrote a feature script and rewrote that, then we had more concept art made. After getting the green light, we kind of had to fi gure out how to make the full-length movie on the fl y.” Earl never attended fi lm school, his only actual fi lm instructor is still Heimerdinger, but he stuck with his dream of making movies even when he wasn’t embracing it completely. After high school, he studied literature at Seattle Pacifi c University and graduated in the depths of The Great Recession. To pay his bills, he started entering contests to fi lm commercials and earned enough credibility to launch his own production company, Shep Films, and begin fi nancing projects of his own. It was likely that work ethic that inspired Jay Duplass to take part in the Prospect feature fi lm. “In college, I watched the Duplass (Jay and Mark) brothers really closely because they were the guys making movies and getting them into Sundance for almost nothing. They were the masters of indie fi lmmaking,” Earl said. Submitted McNary High School alum Zeek Earl crawls around the set of a spaceship on the set of his fi rst feature fi lm with co-director and co-writer Chris Caldwell (on the left). Earl said he and Caldwell got the chance to Skype with Jay and pitch him a role in the movie, but it ended up being more of a conversation about indie fi lmmaking than a job interview. “I think he’d already made up his mind because he was attracted to the vibe of what we were doing and connected with that,” Earl said. Landing Pedro Pascal for the role of Ezra also proved easier than expected. “We were huge fans of him from Game of Thrones and he combines charm and menace in a way that few people can pull off. Fortunately, he really responded to the script. His character has a lot of original vernacular and a fanciful way of talking that was challenging. He described it more like acting in a Shakespeare play than fi lming a movie once he was on set,” Earl said. Earl credited Caldwell with being the “master of dialogue” in the pair’s creative relationship, Earl said his main focus was in the worldbuilding and visual aspects. An uncredited character in the movie is the setting itself, Washington’s Hoh Rainforest, a place with lush greens, hanging mosses and heavy moisture that casts an otherworldly and ethereal spell on visitors. Given the natural beauty, Earl and Caldwell committed to using as much natural lighting as they could, which led to other lessons in time management. “When we pitched the fi lm, we fought for a greater number of days in pre-production and actual fi lming. We had seven months of production design and 40 shooting days, which is about twice what the average movie gets,” he said. “Every day is a numbers game of getting as much time as possible to shoot. I think we got better as we went along, but there were days when we only got half the time we had planned for. We made a lot of mistakes, but we had the time to fi gure stuff out.” With his fi rst feature in the can, Earl and Caldwell’s time in L.A. this week was spent promoting Prospect and working on the duo’s next projects. The strength of Prospect earned ASK MR. TRASH Q. I heard about China’s ban on recycling. What IS recyclable now? A. 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They are pitching it as rural cyberpunk. “We never set out to be sci- fi fi lmmakers, but we’re at a place where there is a demand for it and it’s a space where you can play around with big ideas,” Earl said. Looking back at how far he’s already traveled, Earl still fi nds it hard to fathom. “I took fi lm appreciation from Jason Heimerdinger because I thought it would be an easy class where I could sit around and watch movies. Instead, I learned to appreciate fi lm and got totally bitten by that bug,” Earl said. “Being able to bring this fi lm back home, and have Jason there to talk about it … it’s so cool.” MONDAY, OCT. 22 THURSDAY, OCT. 25 8:15 a.m. - Arrest for criminal trespass in the 5000 block of Riv- er Road N. 12:28 a.m. - Arrest on warrant at the intersection of River Road N and Promenade Way N. 6:30 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in the 5000 block of River Road N. 6:53 p.m. - Theft from vehicle in the 1000 block of Chemawa Road N. 8:37 p.m. - Theft in the 5000 block of River Road N. 10 p.m. - Unlawful entry into a vehicle and theft in the 500 block of Dennis Lane N. 10:35 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in the 400o block of River Road N. 6 a.m. - Arrest for criminal tres- passing in the 5000 block of Wit- tenberg Lane NE. 7:38 a.m. - Failure to preform duties of a driver when property is damaged in the 6000 block of 14th Avenue NE. 10:43 a.m. - Arrest on warrant for the unlawful possession of meth- amphetamine in the 4000 block of River Road N. 1:14 p.m. - Criminal mischief in the 1000 block of Rock Ledge Drive NE. 10:30 p.m. - Arrest for driving under the infl uence and illegal possession of methamphetamine and heroin at the intersection of Stadium Drive NE and Chemawa Road NE. 10:54 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in the 6000 block of Ulali Drive NE. TUESDAY, OCT. 23 1:02 a.m. - Motor vehicle theft in the 5000 block of River Road N. 1:20 a.m. - Criminal trespassing at the 700 block of Lockhaven Drive NE. 11:40 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in the 3000 block of Cherry Avenue NE. 11:54 p.m. - Theft at the inter- section of Bailey Road NE and Chemawa Road NE. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24 9:30 a.m. - Criminal trespass in the 1000 block of Moneda Ave- nue N. 2:50 p.m. - Failure to preform duties of a driver when proper- ty is damaged at the intersection on River Road N and Lockhaven Drive N. 3 p.m. - Theft under false pretens- es in the 200 block of McNary Heights Drive N. 10 p.m. - Arrest on warrant for disorderly conduct in the 3000 block of Partridge Lane NE. 10:47 p.m. - Shoplifting in the 4000 block of River Road N. FRIDAY, OCT. 26 12:25 a.m. - Minor in possession of marijuana in the 1000 block of Chemawa Road N. 12 p.m. - Theft from vehicle in the 5000 block of Island Shores Way N. 6:33 p.m. - Arrest for driving un- der the infl uence and traffi c acci- dent in the 3000 block of River Road N. 7:20 p.m. - Arrest for stalking and burglary in the 4000 block of Ver- da Lane NE. 7:45 p.m. - Criminal trespassing in the 5000 block of Patrick Lane NE. 10:38 p.m. - Arrest on warrant at the intersection of River Road N and Menlo Drive N. 11 p.m. - Arrest for the interfer- ing with a police offi cer at the in- tersection of River Road N and Menlo Drive N. SATURDAY, OCT. 27 1:10 a.m. - Arrest on warrant at the intersection of Cherry Ave- nue NE and Alder Drive NE. 2:05 a.m. - Arrest for assault in the 700 block of Plymouth Drive NE. 4:00 a.m. - Arrest for criminal mischief in the 1000 block of Clearview Avenue NE. 9:00 a.m. - Failure to preform driver duties when property is damaged in the 4000 block of River Road N. 12:37 p.m. - Arrest for the unlaw- ful possession of methamphet- amine in the 5000 block of River Road N.
