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The Society cast and crew celebrate at Chandler Cafe
April 25, 2012
Article by Mary Helen Darah
The cast for the movie, "The Society" has been selected. To celebrate, a cast party was held at Chandler Cafe on March 19th. According to Cap Averill II, of Mantis and Moon Moving Pictures and Sound principal, writer, director and producer, shooting for the movie will begin in May.
The Script calls for scenes at the Sylvania Police Station and Sylvania Municipal Court.
Mr. Averill, along with Kyle Wisniewski, will also help edit the film. Steve Cox and Chuy DeLosSantos are full-time members of the Mantis and Moon team.
Rehearsals to start in March in Sylvania for 'The Society' movie; filming to begin in May
March 19, 2012
Mantis and Moon Productions has finished casting and its filming in Bogata, Columbia for The Society, and rehearsals will begin this month in Sylvania.
Filming around Sylvania will start in May. The scenes will be used but the movie will not indicate the northwest Ohio city is part of the film's story. The filming is expected to use 1970s-era vehicles to drive and park on Sylvania streets to support the story’s time period. The movie is part romantic comedy and part legal drama.
The movie, the first to be shot in the city, is being produced Sylvania resident Cap Averill, owner of Mantis and Moon. He also manages Cap Averill II and Associates, Inc., an insurance company in Toledo.View the article here
Local director gets film cast and crew together
March 19, 2012
Article by Carl Ryan
Amid the clink of wine glasses Monday evening in Chandler Cafe in downtown Sylvania, the talk was of movies, and especially of one called The Society, which is scheduled to start shooting scenes on Main Street in late May.
Director and screenwriter Cap Averill II held a reception for his cast so they could meet and get to know each other. It also was an opportunity to recruit extras
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Movie shooting in Sylvania to begin in May
January 26th, 2012
Article by Ashley Streichert
"It’s been a couple of years in the making and nearly a year since it had a casting call in Sylvania, but in March a film called The Society by a Toledo movie production company will be shooting in Sylvania."
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WTOL Covers The Society
January 24th, 2012
Article By Erin Kelly
"The city of Sylvania has been chosen as the shooting location for an independent film.
The film The Society will begin rehearsals in Sylvania in early March. Filmmakers have already begun to shoot the movie in Bogota, Columbia, and will be heading to northwest Ohio after that."
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The final cast list for The Society has been posted
January 18th, 2012
The final cast list is now available. There are still a few roles that a final decision has not yet been made on so keep an eye out. Please review it to see if you have been selected for a major role. Please remember that if you were not selected for a major role in "The Society", you are still in consideration for our future projects.
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Mantis and Moon heads to Colombia
January 18th, 2012
Filming begins this week for Mantis and Moon’s newest feature “The Society”. The film is aimed for the festival circuits, and will be submitted to IFC.
The first part of the film is being shot in Bogota Colombia. Mantis and Moon has received special permission from the Colombian film Commission to film on Colombian territories.
The permission received by Mantis and Moon is for filming between the 20th and the 30th of January.
“The entire shoot will take place in the capital city of Bogota, a city of 12 million people at 9,000 feet of altitude, in the Andes. We are excited to be one of the first Independent film companies in the world, to shoot Bogota on “Red Cam”
Mantis and Moon will be filming a large part of the movie in Sylvania in May 2012. Casting for the North American Scenes is finished, and rehearsals are to begin in March. With the help of Pat Nowak we are finishing up the location scouting for the Sylvania/North West Ohio shoots.
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Thunder on the Lake moves to post production
July 1st, 2011
The third project in the Thunder Series “Thunder on the Lake” moves up the queue in post production. The footage shot from northern Michigan, Canada and Alaska, all in HDVCPro High Definition, is stunning. This will be another great addition to the Series.
Filming begins for Thunder on the Farm RED
May 12th, 2011
Mantis and Moon has begun remaking the award winning “Thunder on the Farm”. This project will be shot entirely on Red Cam and DVC-Pro HD. These digital formats are the state of the art technologies available today, for high definition projects these systems exceed even the maximum requirements for all HD television stations. The footage screened so far is absolutely beautiful. We are well into the first few days of spring and are very excited about the prospects for this new project. The first Thunder on the Farm was 34:00 minutes we are expecting this remake to come in at one hour.
Mantis and Moon to closes out the May Movies on Adams St
May 26th
Mantis and moon closed out the Adams Street May film series. We screened “Out of the Shadows”, at The Attic, in downtown Toledo.It seemed like everyone there had a good time. It was an intimate setting, and we’d like to thank the auditioners that made it out. We are amassing an incredible troop of dedicated and talented folks and we appreciate their support of our films. Thanks to Scott Recker at Toledo City Paper for coming out and helping put the May series together.
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Sylvania Advantage Article excitement builds around M&M
May 7th, 2011
Cap had a great interview with Sharon Lang of the Sylvania Advantage, who wrote an article on the company that has recently run in the Sylvania Advantage paper. After running through the list of all that's happening with M&M, it is hard not to feel the excitement and energy building.
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Fox Toledo At The Society Auditions
April 12th, 2011
Fox Toledo came out to our April 12th, 2011 audition.
The Society Auditions in the Toledo Blade
April 6th, 2011
Article by David Patch
A Toledo movie production company plans to shoot a feature film in Sylvania this summer and fall -- if it can find the right people to play the leading roles.
To that end, Mantis and Moon Moving Pictures and Sound will hold casting auditions next week in search of candidates for several dozen speaking roles in its legal drama/love story that is to include extended scenes at the Sylvania Police Department and Sylvania Municipal Court.
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Mantis and Moon in The Blade
March 13th, 2011
Article by Kirk Baird
"Dumb luck." That, saidCap Averill II, has as much as anything to do with his success as a Toledo filmmaker.
Averill, 48, is the owner and president of Mantis & Moon, one of the area’s more successful independent film companies.
After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a focus on still photography, Averill co-wrote a screenplay with a friend about their ongoing divorces, leading to an unexpected career making movies.
The two collaborated on the film Out of the Shadows, which was shot in northwest Ohio in 2003-04 with a local cast and crew and submitted to three film festivals, including one in Hollywood where it won Best Full-Length Motion Picture Narrative."
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Mantis and Moon in the Sylvania Herald
December 8th, 2010
Article by Pat Nowak
"The second film of the internationally award-winning Ohio based Film Company, Mantis and Moon High Definition Moving Pictures and Sound, is “Thunder Series – Thunder on the Mountain.” The film, which is in release to film festivals around the country, gained honorable recognition from The Montana Cine International Film Festival. The local film company’s film received two honorable mention awards for “Use of natural sound” and “Creative approach” for its first submission. Mantis and Moon has yet to release a project that has not won or been recognized by an international festival."
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Mantisand Moon has gone RED!
March 28th, 2011
In Mantis and Moons continuing effort to stay on the cutting edge of digital production we have moved to RED ONE, 14 MEGAPIXEL MYSTERIUM-X™ CAM. From our first award winning feature shot on one Sony GRHD1, strapped to the hood of my T-bird, to our progression through Panasonic's top line Digital systems we have always taken absolute advantage of our equipment pushing them to the limit. We are thrilled to be moving up to a camera that is primed and ready to push back. Please click on the link below to visit REDS site and see why they are taking over the film making world.
“RED ONE, the camera that started a revolution in digital cinema. The RED ONE has materialized as one of the most significant American inventions of the 21st Century. With over 5 times the resolution of an HD video camera, the RED ONE has earned its rightful place as the successor to 35mm film acquisition. The RED ONE has been responsible for creating thousands of films, from independent to Hollywood blockbuster, as well as a growing impact on the capture of episodic television”.
To learn more about Red Cam and what movies have been shot by their cameras click here.
Mantis and Moon on Fox Toledo
Segment about Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows in the Toledo City Paper
June 6th, 2007
Article by Jason Webber
Jeez, what’s a guy gotta do to get kidnapped in Colombia these days?
Try as he might — and he’s trying his damndest — Toledo native, financial planner and filmmaker Carleton “Cap” Averill II can’t find anyone to do the deed.Averill recently returned to the South American country to film footage for his new film “Kidnapped in Bogota.” The plot: He walks up to Bogota natives and asks them, in a polite way, to kidnap him. Should be easy enough; kidnappings in Colombia have been featured news for decades. But all Averill gets for his Borat-like antics are confused looks and hearty laughs from Bogota residents. Averill is disappointed. Is this the same kidnap-happy Colombia that provided the backdrop for “Romancing the Stone?”
Actually, Averill’s kidding. The whole film is a joke; he’s poking fun at the stereotype of Colombia as a kidnap and murder hotbed.
“It used to be bad, sure,” says Averill, a Jack Nicholson-like grin spreading across his face. “But it’s gotten a lot safer in the last decade. There was one kidnapping last year. Per capita, there’s a better chance of being kidnapped in the U.S. than in Colombia.”
So the kidnapping thing hasn’t worked out yet. Averill’s filmmaking career? Now that’s another story.
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