His unconventional anti-war documentary Grand Wheel (2008) premiered at SXSW and played more than fifty film festivals in twenty countries. His 2010 collection of experimental shorts about the fall of man titled "Devolution" premiered at the Florida Film Festival and won an Audience Award at the 2010 HollyShorts Film Festival. The sci-fi follow-up "Devolution: Reckoning" premiered at the 2011 Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal.
Variety announced in October 2011 that Heffernan was attached to co-write the screen adaptation of Ray Manzarek's The Poet in Exile, a novel exploring the notion that Jim Morrison of the Doors staged his death in 1971.[10]
In 2015, Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic co-founded SKYGLOW, a crowdfunded book and Blu Ray project to tackle the rising danger and damage of urban light pollution. The fundraising campaign generated significant publicity and ended on May 9, 2015, as the fourth most successful Kickstarter campaign ever in the Photobooks category. The SKYGLOW book released in April 2017 at SKYGLOWPROJECT.COM and was created in association with the International Dark Sky Association.
SKYGLOW event at the Annenberg Photo Space in Los Angeles
Darren Aronofsky is an American filmmaker. His films are noted for their surreal, melodramatic, and often disturbing elements, frequently in the form of psychological fiction.
Christopher McQuarrie is an American filmmaker. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects (1995).
Expiration is an independent feature film, directed by Gavin Heffernan and released in 2003. The film stars Heffernan as Sam, a man who unwittingly walks in on a convenience store robbery in Montreal and must team up with drug dealer Rachel in an attempt to recover their stolen goods.
Guerrilla filmmaking refers to a form of independent filmmaking characterized by ultra-low micro budgets, skeleton crews, and limited props using whatever resources, locations and equipment is available. The genre is named in reference to guerrilla warfare due to these techniques typically being used to shoot quickly in real locations without obtaining filming permits or providing any other sort of warning.
Sunchaser Pictures is a company formed by writer/director/producer Gavin Heffernan, based in Hollywood, California.
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Harun Mehmedinović is a Bosnian American director, screenwriter, photographer, cinematographer, and author. He is a graduate of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and American Film Institute. He is the co-creator of the viral timelapse series SKYGLOW, cinematographer and co-producer of the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced documentary Ice on Fire for HBO, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival May 22, 2019. and cinematographer of IMAX Grand Canyon: Rivers of Time (2022). His film In the Name of the Son, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and went on to win over thirty international awards including Shanghai Film Festival.
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Katie Silberman is an American screenwriter and film producer. She is most known for writing the screenplays to Set It Up (2018), Booksmart (2019), and Don't Worry Darling (2022).
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