Running Wild Filmography

Regular readers at Apocalypse Later will know that my first review of every month is of a movie from Running Wild Films.

I just posted March's choice, which is Belly of the Whale, their entry into the IFP Phoenix Breakout Challenge. You can find my review here, and if you like what you read, you can watch it for free at YouTube.

This all started back in July 2012, when I was working through the Arizona Shorts selection from that year's Phoenix Film Festival. Purely by chance, my first review that month was Shine Like Gold, directed by Travis Mills, who had co-founded Running Wild Films with Gus Edwards. Even back in 2012, Mills had become a prolific filmmaker and it seemed like a laugh to review another of his films, The Ruffians, when August came around, and so on. After all, I'd catch up soon enough, right?

Well, a couple of years on and 21 monthly reviews later, plus reviews of a couple of features in between, I'm not remotely catching up. In fact, Mills is rocketing away from me, having set and achieved the insane target of making no less than 52 short films in the 52 weeks of 2013, all adapted from stories in the public domain. Those were screened en masse at a three day festival at Mariscos Vuelve a la Vida, a charming Mexican restaurant at 16th St & Roosevelt. It's hardly the first place you'd expect to attend a film festival but it was a memorable event.

Each of these 52 films can now be watched online through Vimeo on Demand. Cost is $26 to rent them all or $52 ($1 a film) to buy them all. They can be rented or bought individually too. I'll be reviewing all these films starting in July. If Mills can make 52 films in 52 weeks, I can review 52 films in 52 weeks, right?

One thing that Mills said during a Q&A session at this festival was that Running Wild Films had made around 80 movies. I knew he was understating the case immediately, given that the 52 films screening that weekend plus the 22 I'd already reviewed at that point come close on their own and there were many left for me to watch. The question was how many they actually have made and the answer wasn't apparent.

So I did some research and conjured up this list. It's entirely not official, but hopefully Mills or Edwards can give it a once over, then fix my mistakes and fill in the gaps. I've included links to my reviews and to the IMDb pages, where they exist, along with ratings from my better half and I, as per Apocalypse Later standards.

My current count is 103: 48 short films, plus the 52 from his self imposed 2013 challenge, and 3 features to boot. Others are in the works, of course, some of them completed but not yet available. Their next feature is Duel at the Mound, currently surpassing its target at Kickstarter.

For those interested, my favourite is still The Big Something, their quirky debut feature, while the best, in my humble opinion, is probably The Memory Ride, in the version that strips the original ending.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Features
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Big Something	2011	5	5	Travis Mills	IMDb
The Detective's Lover	2012	4	4	Travis Mills	IMDb
The Men Who Robbed the Bank	2013	4	4	Travis Mills	IMDb

Short Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Man/Woman/Motel Room	2010	5	5	Travis Mills	n/a
The Night Life	2010			Travis Mills	n/a
Hate	2010			Gus Edwards	n/a
Encounter	2010	4	3	Travis Mills	IMDb
Absolution	2010			Gus Edwards	n/a
The Young Wife	2011	4	4	Travis Mills	IMDb
The Gardener	2011			McKenzie Goodwin	n/a
The Guitar	2011			Gus Edwards	n/a
The Blind Man	2011	3	4	Travis Mills	IMDb
Detective's Calendar	2011				n/a
Last Kiss at Sunset	2011				n/a
Five Things a Detective Does in the Dead of Night	2011			Travis Mills	n/a
Two Voices	2011			Gus Edwards & Travis Mills	IMDb
Night Train to Phoenix	2011	5	5	Travis Mills	IMDb
Detective Shaves	2011	2	3	Travis Mills	n/a
Augusta: The Plainfield Ghoul	2011				n/a
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot	2011	4	5	Travis Mills	IMDb
Comanche	2011			Travis Mills	n/a
The Sunset Limited	2012	3	3	Travis Mills	n/a
Therapist	2012	4	3	Travis Mills	n/a
A Month in Mississippi	2012			Travis Mills	IMDb
Off Track	2012	5	5	Travis Mills	IMDb
Just Cause	2012	5	6	Gus Edwards	n/a
Dad	2012				n/a
The French Spy	2012	3	3	Travis Mills	IMDb
The Memory Ride	2012	6	6	Travis Mills	IMDb
Escort Driver	2012	3	4	Travis Mills	n/a
Friday Nights Alone	2012	5	4	Travis Mills	n/a
A Little Haven	2012			Travis Mills	n/a
Itty Bitty Bang Bang	2013	5	5	Travis Mills	IMDb
I Don't Even Know Your Name	2013	4	4	Michael Coleman	n/a
1	2013				n/a
2	2013				n/a
Food in the Alley	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
Boykin	2013	5	5	Travis Mills	n/a
Wander in the Dark	2013	4	4	Boban Gligoric	n/a
The MacGruffin	2013			Kyle Gerkin	n/a
Banana Justice	2013	3	3	Travis Mills	n/a
Star Babies	2013	6	5	Travis Mills	IMDb
The Lady of New Orleans	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
Ranch Hands	2013			Christopher Murray	n/a
Perorities	2013			Colleen Hartnett	IMDb
Spectacles	2013			William Long	IMDb
Mozart/Beethoven	2013			Nathan Foley	n/a
Catch the Frog	2013	5	5	Travis Mills	n/a
Foster, You're Dead	2013			Kyle Gerkin	n/a
Belly of the Whale	2014	5	5	Kyle Gerkin	n/a
Little Man in the Boat	2014				n/a

52 Films/52 Weeks
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Sisters	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Bartleby	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
Two Hearts That Beat as One	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
You Touched Me	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
An Encounter	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
Araby	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
A Little Hero	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
I Want to Know Why	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
Two Gallants	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Head and Shoulders	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Other Woman	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Kiss	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
The White Stocking	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
A Respectable Woman	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
A Desertion	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
A Painful Case	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
The Bookkeeper	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Liar	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
The Thief	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
Horseshoes	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
My Roomy	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Harmony	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Useless Beauty	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
Counterparts	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Return	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
A Mother	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Tennessee's Partner	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Catastrophe	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Three Strangers	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
A Lodging for the Night	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Cask	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Young Goodman Brown	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
Berenice	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
A Watcher by the Dead	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Man of the Crowd	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Country of the Blind	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Grace	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
The Captain's Story	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Test Case	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Devil and Tom Walker	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
A Little Cloud	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Clay	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
A Pair of Silk Stockings	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Bum	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
After the Race	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
A Day in the Committee Room	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Eveline	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Boarding House	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Locket	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
Out of Season	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb
The Dead	2013			Travis Mills	n/a
A Piece of Steak	2013			Travis Mills	IMDb