STREET LEVEL (2014)
Production Company
Executive Producers
Director
Writer
Producers
Line Producer
Production Manager
1st AD
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Costume Designer
Editor
Sound Designer
Composer
Cast
Junkie Films
The Chavez Brothers
David Labrava
David Labrava
David Labrava
James Zahnd
Greg Baldi
Nick Erickson
Luis Estrada
David Ticotin
Greg Baldi
Ashley Swanson
Dawn Ritz
Ian Trueb
David Labrava
Kenneth L. Johnson
Greg Kuehn
Marilyn Manson
Kristen Renton
Elia Saldana
David Labrava
Mark Boone Jr.
Charisma Carpenter
Drea De Matteo
Jennifer B. Taylor
Rey Gallegos
Emilio Rivera
Barry Del Sherman
Sean Whalen
Michael Nouri
Luis Moncada
Bar Paly
Sully Erna
Ashley Gallegos
Angela Chiusano
Rebekah Kennedy
Theodus Crane
James Zahnd
Don Frye
Danny Trejo
Chuck Zito
Robert Patrick
OBJECTIVE
This was a unique project. I had met David Labrava (DL) through some mutual friends and he was incredibly driven to direct this film he had written, and was set to star in as well. As an independently financed film we had to work around a number of challenges. We had a huge cast of over 30 people so had to work with all of their schedules. We shot this in 10 days! That’s really all we could afford. So we had an ambitious project that required a lot of passion and support to get through it. Luckily, we had it.
APPROACH
DL had a lot of connections with the Sons Of Anarchy cast and crew, so we literally started filming the weekend after the last shot of SOA (ever) was filmed. The crew was a makeup of SOA family and young talent. On this inde project the rates had to be slightly lower than a traditional commercial rate, so we made sure everyone was well fed, and placed a strong emphasis on crew morale, energy, and culture. It was a hard shoot but everyone seemed to have a really good time making it. Complimenting DL’s energy and style, the production was always all about never slowing down and pushing full steam ahead. I found that the more we hesitated, the more our problems would seem to emerge and blossom into new problems. So in many ways we saved a lot of money by pulling triggers quickly, and finding any available of getting DL the arsenal he was calling for.
NOTES
Filmed 2014. Released 2016.
Independent feature film. Available for purchase on Amazon.
Filmed in Los Angeles, CA.
Featuring David Labrava (SOA), Charisma Carpenter (Buffy), Mark Boone Jr. (SOA), Danny Trejo (Machete), Robert Patrick (T2), Marilyn Manson, Sully Erna, Luis Moncada, Bar Paly, Chuck Zito, Don Frye, Emilio Rivera, Rey Gallegos, Kristen Renton, Theodus Crane, Rebekah Kennedy, and Robert Patrick.