I’m a Canadian filmmaker married to a wonderful American elementary school teacher. She’s a Southern belle with a refined drawl that absolutely incapacitated me the moment I heard it. I’ve worked in Christian media for over 20 years and like so many of my colleagues feel the call to take the 'Good News' into main stream media in ways that are authentic; using language and images that allow truth to resonate inside the places where God is already at work in a person's life...even if he/she is not aware of it. My company, One Rubber Chicken Entertainment, is a very small company trying to do something BIG! And after YEARS - almost decades - spent playing the maverick, I am firmly at a place in my life where I know that I know that I know that collaboration and community are the keys to success. Thankfully, I have lots of friends who are in the industry (TV, film, music, etc...) who are in the exact same situation, so we often band together to develop projects when time and cash flow permit. Would you like to be one of our friends? Don't be shy! We always have room for enthusiastic creatives. We have a couple of TV series in the works both of which are in need of a broadcaster/distributor and MONEY! (hopefully the former will get us some of the latter) The project I'm in charge of is a blend of sketch comedy with an "Office" styled sitcom called "Leland Klassen: Pressin'ON!" Who is this Leland Klassen fellow you ask? Well that's part of the problem, isn't it? Distributors want famous (bankable) talent. In fact 4 out 5 Acquisition Executives - the folks in charge of buying shows - prefer 'Bankable' to 'Funny'. Thou suspectus I doth exaggerate? Think John Travolta, William H. Macy, Martin Lawrence & Tim Allen in "Wild Hogs". I rest my case. By the by...the 5th guy who prefers fresh, funny & clever programming…? FIRED!! So I guess the statistic should really read: "4 out 5 Acquisition Executives prefer Remaining Employed!" That's as ranty as I get. I hope you enjoy our sketches. Some of our sketches have laugh trax. I assure you this is not canned laughter. After I cut a bit, we screen it in front of a studio audience and added their laughter to the sound trac. Everybody I know HATES the laugh trac, but it's there for a reason. In selling shows, we seldom (make that NEVER) get to meet with the Aq.Execs. to show them our stuff. So I needed a way to let these people with the power to 'Green Light' programming know that this stuff was funny...even if they JUST got off the phone with their ex-wife's cut-throat lawyer THE SECOND before pressing play on our DVD screener. (if, however, they simultaneously took a sip of their venti latté only to discover that it WASN'T a half-caff double decaf with extra no foam...well then...we're chum!) Where possible, I'll upload the viewing version of the sketch...sans laughter. We live to serve. Enjoy...or not. No pressure.