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Charles Shouse, Director Charles Shouse(Writer/Director of Forever in Black Hills) is a native of Breathitt Co. Ky. Charles always had a interest in movies and it wasn't until his sophomore year at Morehead State University that he decided he wanted to be a film director. He chose to major in Television Production and minor in Theater, which he thought would give him a good background for acting and working with actors, and also develop a knowledge for film and TV production. After graduating MSU in 1995 Charles was enrolled in Columbia Film School located in Hollywood California. He moved out west with dreams of becoming a film director. Soon, reality set in and money became tight and he couldn't afford to stay in California so, disappointed, he moved back home to Kentucky . After several years of working around Georgetown KY, Charles decided to go back to Morehead and get some more classes in Graphic Design and Computer Graphics. That year he met his future bride, Ginger Honeycutt. The two married in the fall of 1996. Charles had all but given up his dream to direct and took a job working for Toyota Motor Co. in Georgetown Ky. After six years of disappointing labor, Charles decided that it was time to make a change in his life. He saved up some money, and with some financial help from a friend at work and from his family, he bought some digital film making equipment. He and his wife had just written their first screenplay "Purple Hearts", so he decided to write a script that would require a small budget and locations that he had access to. Within a few months he finished the script "Forever in Black Hills", and began his search for the actors. Charles turned to his brother, Mike Shouse, to help him with the production. Mike introduced Charles to some wonderful actors in Lexington Ky. who had been working on a local Zombie movie. Charles had but one role left to fill, the lead role of Joseph Herald, who Charles had originally had intended to play himself. After a frustrating search , he finally found a local actor, Phil Neace to play the part. Now that the cast was together Charles had to assemble a crew, and he recruited help from family and friends. Now, with a five man crew and a cast of ten or more actors, Charles set out to film his movie and to pursue his dream. Shooting started in July of 2002 and required most of the crew and cast to give up their weekends to filming. The days and nights were long and hard, especially on the crew, but there was a lot of fun on the sets. The movie is almost finished with filming and is in the post
production phase which includes editing and the development of
the musical score (which will be done by Mike Shouse). Charles
hopes that the film will be ready by no later than July 2003.
He hopes to enter it into as many Independent film competitions
as he can. He also plans to show the movie in local theaters
and hopes that the movie will be bought by a distributor so that
all who worked with the movie will be compensated for their hard
work.
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