DAMIEN WASYLKIW (va-silk’e)*

I’ve made it onto IMDB at last!
Admittedly, my page is probably the smallest in IMDB history, but it’s actually a great feeling to be listed among the chosen few who get to make movies in whatever capacity.

Some more Internet virals for Fox’s adaptation of the computer game, Hitman.
This time I was working with my brother Luke who is a budding editor and musical genius.
Together we came up with a new concept in film remixing.
I’ll post it here when I get a moment.

Phil’s first commercial directing job sees us both off to Prague.
Phil’s directing a parkour corporate video for DHL with me running second camera and you guessed it…editing.

More online virals from the master himself…yes, that’s me.

Ken Branagh is directing the remake of this camp 1970s thriller.
Jude Law will play the Michael Caine role and Michael Caine will step into Lawrence Oliviers shoes.
The silliness of the original gives way to a very surreal, sadistic tale at the hands of a Harold Pinter script.
Phil will be shooting behind the scenes material…I’ll be sat in the edit suite creating webisodes.
PINTER: BRANAGH: LAW: CAINE: WASYLKIW: STOOLE. It doesn’t get much better than that.

BAFTA are now screening short films and experimental art films in their cafe/restaurant area.
Anyone lucky enough to be a member will also be able to watch my pompous, floaty, art film set high above the Chiltern hills

Throughout August and September Prince will be performing his sell-out tour of the o2 Arena.
Phil and I will be there every night, filming behind the scenes material for his royal highness the Prince of Funk.
I’m sworn to secrecy and I’m probably breaching my contract by even writing this, so if you want to find out anything more, you’ll have to kill me first….er….that’s not right is it?

The last of the short films set in the world of 28 Days/Weeks Later.

Staring the delightful Carmel o’Sullivan, William Meredith and Dan Sung as the infected.
Our producer Laurence Glover was kind enough to let us invade his house for a couple of days to film this.
Shot by myself and Andrew Johnson. Music by Dave Dipre. Edited by me.
Written and directed for your viewing pleasure by Phil Stoole and myself.

Another short film inspired by 28 Days/Weeks Later.
This film was made using our technique of surfing the main unit.

All the infected in this film are indeed being filmed for the actual feature, 28 Weeks Later, while Phil was sneakily hiding out of shot, filming with our actor, Joe Lloyd.

Helicopters added by the nice people at Big Buoy.
Wonderful production design courtesy of Iain White. Shot by Andrew Johnson. Editor on this one was myself and Geraint Hew Reynolds.
Written and directed by Phil and myself.

A friend of mine, Kaethe Fine, was going to New York and wanted to film something while she was there.
I quickly wrote another 28 Weeks Later short and didn’t think anything more of it.
A week later she returned with the rushes for this film:

She had never seen 28 Days or Weeks Later before and the kid had never acted before.
I think he actually got a film gig on the basis of this short. I’ll find out some more and post it here. I think he may well have a bit of a career ahead of him.

A grindhouse trailer staring Dan Sung, Jo Herbert, Luke Wasylkiw and Emily Yeoh. Shot By Jake Martin and Directed by Phil and myself.

Phil and I have been trying to invent a new way of making films. It’s called ‘Surfing the Main Unit’ and it’s a way of piggybacking a feature film shoot to add production value. Our first foray into this way of production was on 28 Weeks Later for our film called Welcome to London. Here it is.

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In this instance we took an actor friend of our to the shoot and got him signed up as an extra so he could run about with the crowd. We singled him out with our own cameras, then took him to one side and played out our own little story. At the end we kindly asked a load of infected - who were diligently sitting around doing nothing, as is normally the case on a film set - if they would run towards our star in a scary fashion. Filming took about 2 hours and cost virtually nothing.

Our frightened civilian is played by Dan Sung and the unfortunate brick bashee is played by our very own Phil Stoole.

There is an article about it on the Film London website this month.

Phil and I have been making some short films inspired by and based in the world of 28 WEEKS LATER.
Here is the first:

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The talented actors are Danny Worters and my brother, Luke Wasylkiw.
The effects were done by the very talented Emily at Big Buoy.

There is also an interview with Phil and I over at The Londonist.