Studio News
Stephen King's The Ten O'clock People in the horizon!
Posted on Aug 6, 2011
We are thrilled to announce that the owner of Edge Infinity Studios and local Rhode Island filmmaker, Rajah Samaroo, will be highly involved in the upcoming Stephen King adaptation of The Ten O'clock People. After reading the beautifully written script by E.J. Meyers, it was a no-brainer.
"I HAD to be involved with the project," said Rajah.
Having produced over a dozen narrative projects, Rajah explained that "This is the natural next step for Edge Infinity Studios. We will be able to take all the experience gained from helping out local Directors on the independent film circuit in New England and pouring it into an excellent project that will automatically have a built in audience, thanks to Stephen King."
Rajah will be coming on as the Co-producer and Assistant Director. Pre-production begins in September when Rajah will be wrapping up his current short film project Worm Free Society.
More about Worm Free Society a short film in Production
Posted on July 30, 2011
Dear Friends,
We've just launched an indiegogo page to help raise funds for Worm Free Society. This is my next short film and I need your help. Please help support our independent film agenda and donate a few bux today. With your help we an get a great film made and don't forget to claim your Perk! We've go DVDs of the film, Pre-screening tix, and a whole lot more!
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Edge Infinity Studios' Wraps 25th Narrative Project!
Posted on June 2, 2011
We are pleased to have helped Weymouth native, and struggling Artist/Actor/Writer Thomas Connors to produce a dream project of his over two weekends last month. Edge Infinity Studios LLC organized a crew of local professionals and enthusiasts to piece together a low budget film project with Connors script at the helm. This makes the 25 narrative film project that has been associated with Rajah Samaroo and Edge Infinity Studios LLC.
Here are some great behind the scenes photography of the production.
More pics here!
Get Ready for Worms!
Posted on March 6, 2011
Edge Infinity Studios LLC is thrilled to announce a new film project directed by Rajah Samaroo. We are shooting August and then submit to a few big name festivals. This will be our first project to be shot on the new Sony FS-100 camera which shoots an incredible image on a film size 35 mm sensor.
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Edge Infinity Studios Teams up with Atomcat to Produce a Pilot Episode for OU2: Shitake Hits the Fan
Posted on March 6, 2011
The Edge Infinity Team is excited to be jumping in the hunt with a new direction for OU2. OU2 is an off beat comedy sitcom pilot that Writer Tom Connors has had up his sleeves for the last two decades. We are excited to be bringing his script to life again. We had varied levels of success having already shot episode one. We believe episode number two give the show a stronger identity that connect with its audience. We begin shooting on May 14th in Pawtucket, RI.
Our Providence Debut was a Smashing Success!
Posted on March 24, 2011
A special thank you goes out to those who came by the big screening to show their support for local filmmakers in Rhode Island. We had a successful debut screening for Director, Rajah Samaroo and all the great performances displayed on the big screen by Daniel Lee White, John Michael Dubis, and Anthony Goes. We screened six locally produced films to a packed audience at the Cable Car Cinema in Providence and received a splendid ovation.
In a show entitled "This is the End" Edge Infinity Studios presented six short films in the official public debut of Award Winning filmmaker, Rajah Samaroo who has been making films for over eight years in RI. More details on the filmmakers can be found in the presskit. |
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"His Take on Her" is in the Can!
Posted by Rajah Samaroo on Oct 09, 2010
Edge Infinity Studios was proud team up with Director John Devault for the six day production of an ultra ultra low budget short film. It was three months ago when John approached DP and Filmmaker Rajah Samaroo with his script for "His Take on Her". After reviewing the logistics of five locations, four main actors, and a fifteen person crew, it seemed like a great production, Edge Infinity Studios. Rajah came on as the Associate Producer to get things off the ground with the crew, many of whom had volunteered on previous EIS productions.
While John Devault worked on his own casting, Rajah went to work locating crew and creating a preliminary budget. It became clear someone with a bit more professional experience was needed as a Production Manager if Rajah was going to be working as the Director of Photography on this project at well. Luckily, after only interviewing three candidates, we found the perfect candidate in Ivone Rego. She had previously produced work for MTV networks and on another low budget SAG Feature. Ivone was brought on as the Line Producer and we went to work finding the remaining crew and locations.
Shooting began on September 4th with an amazing crew throughout all departments. Bryan Felty from the Art Department worked with just one assistant to create our incredible set design that was a pleasure to light. This was the first narrative film that Rajah worked on exclusively on the Canon 7D. It was clear after watching the first day of dailies that it was the right camera for the job. Even though, DSLRs are promising technology to shoot film, all the old rules still apply when it comes to professional lighting and audio work. With an extremely organized crew, the film was shot in six days, ended on schedule every day, and the crew happily enjoyed a wrap party with the some of contingency money left over. Stay tuned to your favorite local film festival and edgeinfinity.com for more info on the screening for "His Take on Her", due out in early 2011.
Edge Infinity Studios is hired to co-produce His Take on Her
Posted by Rajah Samaroo on June 03, 2010
We are excited to be part of M.E.S Production's new project scheduled to be shot in early September.
Wrapping "Cold Brother" in Seven
Posted by Rajah Samaroo on Jan. 24, 2010
When we started shooting this project on back on December 17, Director Andrew Marnik and Producer Rajah Samaroo, did not believe it would take this long to finish a twenty minute no-budget film that was initially expected to be shot a four days. As we began shooting, it was clear that we'd need more time to really tell the story of Cold Brother. Although we started out on an ambitious schedule and making "our day", something happened. That is Winter in New England.
Before one of our major schedule day of shooting, we had a monumental blizzard that completely changed the look of the film. We had initally expected to shoot this film in a dreary winter, late fall setting but once we saw the footage of Johnston and Scituate in all it's snow covered beauty – a decision had to be made. Albeit, we didn't know at the time. We thought that the script could be rewritten to accomadate a cold day. That was the easy solution. What the producer did instead, to get a cold New England aesthetic was go all out and shoot in the snow. It meant reshooting one day completely but we were ready to do it again, and do it better.
Usually, these decisions are thrown at you like hail in a hailstorm, or for less dramatic effect - the night before when a decision has to be made whether to shoot due to the snow outside. Once that decision was made to shoot in the snow... it could mean rethinking the story or locations. Writer and Director, Andrew Marnik, was constantly thinking of lines that could be tweaked to compensate for the typical New England weather. On Day 2, he made the decision to combine a gym scene which was followed up by a park scene. It was a genius decision to remain indoors not only because it made the scene more intimate between the two actors but it also made great use of a gym room that had blood red walls which played into the theme of the film.
Seven shooting days later, Rajah was more than happy to reshoot driving sequences where instead of standing in the back of a pickup truck going 40-50 in the backroads of Johnston, he was placed in the safety of a Jeep courtesy of Andrew's Father. It was not only warmer but catering was provided on the spot, courtesy of Richelle and her chocolate covered pretzels.
After being the sole Director, Producer, Writer, and Cinematographer the last three personal film projects, it nice to take a step back and just focus on Cinematography and Producing. Andrew and I make a good team when it comes down to the nuts and bolts of film production. This is going to be a film that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
Written by Rajah Samaroo
Cinematographer and Producer of Cold Brother
New Gear For a New Year
Posted by Rajah Samaroo on Jan 4th, 2010
We are pleased to announce a few key upgrades in the equipment department. A Canon 7D which takes remarkable film quality video in high definition along with 3 Canon prime lenses. In addition to that, We have a new SteadyCam vest, Camera Shoulder brace, and upgraded sound gear from Azden. The steady cam will be used in upcoming music video shoots while the shoulderbrace provides a step up from handheld shooting for run-and-gun shoots.
Director's Statement For West Run
Posted by Rajah Samaroo on Jan 15th, 2010
I've always been interested in stories set in the underworld of hackers and the mythology behind it. The story of West Run gave me the perfect opportunity to follow the lives of freelance hackers who live on the fringe of society. They take what they need from the system and lurk in the shadows. Roland West, the protagonist in West Run is that character. Until he crosses path with Sebastian Fuller a business mogul bent on exploiting the hacker secret the information age. The two characters provided an interesting contrast of personalities, a corporate schemer with low morality and with low life hacker.
Written in 2006 as student thesis film, West Run was a dark prelude to the coming of the economic collapse. West Run hinted at a group of individuals who knowingly exploit the market, very much a Ponzie Scheme. In the world of West Run there's a group of cold calculating market leaders who make decisions that have significant rippling effect on the world economy. For this reason, I believe West Run is more relevant today than it was in 2006.
Stylistically, I wanted to capture the essense of ordinary hackers making do with little to no resources. The idea of a character who had to be mobile, living as a digital nomad, interested me. I was also deeply inspired by The Matrix greenish, stark colors when going into West Run. This we achieved, in post production with simple green tinting.
Another unique element of West Run was combining this hacker fiction with an action movie that goes out into the woods. Taking a hacker out of his element, appealed to me. We were able to do so while maintaining the greenish visual style.
Working on a student film budget, this whole experience was a learning and satisfying experience. It's a starting point in figuring out what really interests me as filmmaker giving me an opportunity to find out what works and what doesn't work. With future episodes and a budget, we can really begin exploring the dark underworld of the internet and the ripple effects of some of this new technology.
By Rajah Samaroo
Writer and Director
www.edgeinfinity.com
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