Mean Time Productions was founded to produce the feature film, THE WIND, and is still going strong. During its run in the international film festival circuit, THE WIND (www.thewindmovie.com) won two Best Picture awards and was honored with five nominations, including Best Screenplay and Best Director. This critically acclaimed, horror-thriller morality tale is available everywhere as a Special Edition DVD, released by MTI Home Video.

Mean Time Productions’ next outing was the short film, A LOVE LETTER TO STEVE McQUEEN, which was produced in association with the American Film Institute. This anamorphic widescreen homage to the iconic screen legend and American muscle cars was the foundation for Ford Motor Company’s “McQueen” television ad campaign. Mean Time also helmed the short, SILENT HILL: THE UNAUTHORIZED TRAILER. This tongue-in-cheek short, based on the wildly popular, survival horror, video game franchise, was produced well before the feature film version. Conceived as a way to make the camera tests for our next feature more fun, this effort was – sadly yet not surprisingly – misunderstood by its intended ‘hardcore gamer’ audience.

Mean Time Productions’ second feature, the sci-fi dramedy, WELCOME TO EARTH (www.welcometoearthmovie.com), stars THE WIND alumni, Zeke Rippy (“Straight Right”), Davis Mikaels (“Joey”), and Joanna Bonaro (“Torture Me No More”). W2E also stars Jason Alan Smith (“The Golden Boys,” “Faith of My Fathers,” “Big Bad Wolf”), Kate Orsini (“Puppet Master: The Legacy,” “Gargoyle’s Revenge”), Thomas Edward Seymour (“The Land of College Prophets”), Kristina Doran (“Torture Me No More”), Jane O’Leary (“Secrets of New York”), and Dick Boland (“Broken”). This day-in-the-life, ensemble story of love and friendship amidst the backdrop of alien visitation snagged several honors and awards in its festival run, including a prestigious Remi Award from WorldFest Houston.

Next, BROKEN (www.myspace.com/brokenthemovie), a more than decade-long production pioneered by the founders of Mean Time Productions and Pedestrian Productions (www.pedxing.com), was completed at long last. This lo-fi, dark comedy feature about head trauma, heartbreak, and brotherly strife stars Paul Phipps and W2E’s Dick Boland. BROKEN the DVD is available at Amazon.com and features the complete cut of the film, trailers, a production design showcase, and an illuminating ‘Behind the Scenes’ short on the history and mystery of this expansive project, hosted by Paul Phipps and director Jay Hollinsworth.

Mean Time Productions recently completed the feature, BEING MICHAEL MADSEN (www.beingmichaelmadsen.com) a.k.a. TURNING THE TABLES, starring Michael Madsen, and featuring Virginia Madsen, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Harry Dean Stanton, Paige Davis, Lacey Chabert, and Debbie Rochon. Team Mean Time regulars, Jason Alan Smith, Davis Mikaels, Zeke Rippy, Thomas Edward Seymour, and Dick Boland return, and new team-members, Kathy Searle (“Baby Mama”), Doug Tompos (“October 22”), Fuschia Sumner (“Stardust”), and Tara Mercurio (“Rebound”) are also featured. This five-star ‘meta-documentary’ was honored with the Audience Award at the Faux Film Festival and won its director, Michael Mongillo, a Best Director Award at the Mockumentary Film Festival.

Currently, Mean Time Productions is developing the cult-favorite comic book series, THE PHILISTINE (www.thephilistine.com), as a live-action feature, as well as the original action-horror romance, THE LOST GIRL.

Mean Time Productions’ primary collaborators, the core of “Team Mean Time,” are writer/producer/director, Michael Mongillo (www.myspace.com/themong), producer/editor/sound designer, Taylor Warren (www.sunrisepictures.com), writer/producer, James Charbonneau (http://imdb.com/name/nm1237381/), and actor/producer, Jason Alan Smith (http://imdb.com/name/nm1544655/).