It looks as if things are back in full swing with Nicholas Ortiz and his independent production company Deviant Children for forthcoming webseries, Black Betty. The company took to Instagram on Thursday to share the following update:
Independent filmmaker Nicholas Ortiz has begun pre-production this week on Black Betty, a female-fronted action thriller webseries now in production via his NYC-based Deviant Children Productions banner. The project will be spun from his original Spring 2018 proof pilot which snagged three awards in two categories at the sixth Urban Action Showcase Film Festival.
“But this is indie action cinema, Nick, no one has any money. You need money for those things, right?” Wrong. You don’t need money to make a good action short film nor a good looking one. It’s really a matter of being particular on what you want to present visually. Two weeks ago I released my newest short film, Black Betty. The film required a very specific location as it was written to be a “NightClub” run by Sergei, a Russian gangster. For the final film we managed to get a restaurant location as a special favor for the planned two day shoot, we then adjusted our plan to fit the space since we didn’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Apart from dance and choreography, Pizarro is now further residing her prospects with a casting agency to work her way up in entertainment. With any luck that will hopefully lead to more prominent roles with other directors and showrunners as time passes. At the end of the day however, she’s ardent about her continued support and exclusivity with Ortiz as long as he’s got his ship running at Deviant Children Productions or wherever he’s behind the lens. Being inspired to create and express herself through art is especially a plus.
In the world of action cinema, quality certainly reigns over quantity; A single well choreographed, well shot action sequence can excite more than two and a half hours of “lights and noise”. However even in action films both large and small, not much is mentioned of the things that had to come before that DVD started spinning in your player. Action filmmaking is highly technical, more so than most other genres that tend to offer more creative interpretations of on screen physicality. Being an indie filmmaker is already tough, but indie action filmmaking takes those challenges and complicates them even further.
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