Veteran/Co-Writer Producer

Video interview with Co-Writer/Producer Ely Kalilikane from OC 16's  Hawaii Reel Stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TPgA5LcpTA&feature=youtu.be

Memorial day 2012 Hawaii News Now: interview with Ely Kalilikane(Co-writer, Co-Producer).
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/18648248/empty-streets

Radio interview

It's a 120:00 min. show, there is one guest before us. Go ahead and scroll to 63:00 min. on the time-line for our segment. This interview is one month old, we thanks those in all 5 countries who tuned in.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/solutionsnowradio/2012/07/24/snr-welcomes-eric-eq-young-and-paul-booth 

Journalist Reviews Empty Streets

Review is the opinion of the writer...

"Just watched 'Empty Streets'. The film is superb in capturing the isolation, dissolution, fear, emptiness experienced by many combat veterans when they come home. This Marine, as many ex-troops do, finds himself with one foot in the bush and one foot in the USA, not a good place to be. 

The photography captures emotion in a simple and stark way; I don't know if this is a true story but picking up with the hooker and the cop's involvement is kind of unreal, but I think it could grow on me; I do see these characters as symbols, with the hooker being a mix of understanding and shallowness and the cop is the symbol of the ever watchful authorities and government.

Once I was riding my bike late one night, fell asleep on a park bench in sight of Cleveland City Hall and the Veterans Memorial in a public park and got hassled by a cop, a symbol of the very people I worked with in government and covered as a newspaper reporter. The film is raw and emotional and the ex-Marine is well portrayed.

Millions of combat veterans have this experience, sometimes severely so and usually get no help from anyone, including the government (VA and military). It's hard to watch but so was "Midnight Cowboy." Both sad stories. This one needs telling. 

"Empty Streets" is a film that takes courage to do, especially for the Marine veteran involved; bravo! - Mike Marcellino, journalist/veteran, U.S. Army, II Field Force, Vietnam 

To read more of Mike Marcellino's work visit the blog he is the author of  www.notebookwriter.blogspot.com 

Tabora Gallery Hawaii (DVD release)

EMPTY STREETS is now available at all three Tabora Gallery locations (Outrigger Hotel Waikiki, Hyatt Regency Waikiki and Haleiwa on the North Shore). It's an honor to be collaborating with an artist of Tabora's caliber. I'm very grateful to Mr. Roy Tabora and his team for helping us help Veterans.  Check out Mr. Tabora's beautiful work http://www.taboragallery.com/

about Kendyce

Kendyce Manguchei, writer, producer. Kendyce is a professional editor and recreational designer who contributed her skills to the film world with script supervision, locations mangement and marketing inventiveness, beginning with the initial concept of "Empty Streets" -- when the working title was "Johnny on the Outskirts of Town."

About Josh

Josh provided the print media and graphic design for our DVD and CD covers, our movie posters, and our blog banner (photo by Angelina Gervasi).

Josh is a previsualization artist for feature films and was a graduate of the Vancouver Film School. He has been a professional character animator for more than a decade in the video game and film industries, and his recent credits include Marvel's blockbuster The Avengers, and the 2010 "Video Game of the Year" Red Dead Redemption. Josh also creates digital paintings and illustrations in his spare time, and lives with his wife Tina and their daughter in Los Angeles, CA.

His portfolio website can be found at www.joshlange.com.