Movies You Made: “Innocence Blood”
From the recent Introduce Yourself post, there were several readers who included information about movies they had made. So this week, we’ll feature those. Here’s today’s selection:
Hello! I’m DJ Holloway, a writer and director in Orange County, California.
I started writing as an independent study project in 8th grade, writing my first “novel.” (50 pages, single spaced! :)
I transitioned to writing and making movies in high school, completing a 40 minute and a full length movie my junior and senior year. Post graduation, I made three more full-length movies and countless shorts as I also got my English degree from the University of Oregon. Go Ducks! (sorry, that’s a requirement of the program)
Then I moved down south to pursue the career. I teach at a high school in Fullerton, and was lucky enough to be next door to a fellow filmmaker named Sun Kim. He runs the Talent One Media Film Festival, and invited me to make my first professional short a few years ago.
I made the award-winning (!) Pie & Coffee and followed up with Sunset and Stormdragon in the subsequent years.
Last summer I got to check off a HUGE goal of mine, to direct a feature film, and made Innocence Blood with Sun. It’s a drama that follows a retired police officer into his past when his son is kidnapped. His only hint from the kidnapper is to “do it right, this time.”
Currently, I’m trying to work my way into TV writing — I’ve written a Castle spec and an original pilot, and I’m breaking my story for a Justified spec.
I’m also outlining a new novel and preparing to write a full-length script with Sun Kim this summer as a potential “next step” if (when) our film is successful.
Here is the trailer for Innocence Blood:
Credits:
Starring Jun Sung Kim (Late Autumn), Doug Jones (Hellboy, Pan’s Labrynth) C.S. Lee (Dexter), Alexandra Chun, Justin Chon
Synopsis: Sun W. Kim and D.J. Holloway, behind several award winning short films, makes their feature film debut with Innocence Blood. The suspense thriller tells the story of James Park, a retired detective turned college professor, who is forced to face his dark past in order to find his son Cody’s kidnapper. James Park, played by Jun-Seong Kim (Manchu, West 32nd), a well decorated, officer is exposed for who he really is by his son’s mysterious kidnapper. With a handful of past enemies, simultaneous murders, a wife who’s losing faith in him, and two detectives in hot pursuit, James must move fast to bring his son home safely.
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