writeumcowboy-1

Joined Jan 2006

Award winning local filmmaker Randy Roberts is a bit of a Renaissance man. Having spent 27 years in California as both an architect and then a beginning filmmaker, he returned in 2003 to his native Texas. Randy is a licensed architect who has practiced in Texas, Colorado and California. He graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor’s of Architecture in Design.

During the recession, when architecture work was scarce, Randy took advantage of the hard times, working as a car rental rep for “Rent a Wreck”, a background actor, and as a security officer for Warner Brothers. He spent 11 years honing his acting skills, which led to studies in screenwriting and directing. He spent 11 years in Southern California as a motivational speaker for sales corporations and management firms.

Randy practiced Architecture in Orange County for 16 years designing Passive Solar homes and residential architecture throughout California and Arizona.

Randy went to Los Angeles in 1991 and began work as a background actor on such films as “Face Off”, “Spawn”, “Jerry McGuire” and sitcoms from Friends, Seinfeld, Ink, and dramas such as “ER”, “Chicago Hope”, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”.

Randy is the President and CEO of Positive Impact films, started in 1998. His first film, “Respect” was a 1860’s Western, which won the “Best Short Subject” at the Festival Of The West in Phoenix, AZ. It was also screened at the Deep Ellum Film Festival and the Native American Film Festival. With that under his belt, he came home to Texas for family reasons.

He has written and directed “The Visit”, which will premier at the Palace Arts Center Theatre in Grapevine, TX on Sunday, November 21. He has partnered with the Alzheimer’s Association – North Central Chapter and all proceeds from the screening will go to this organization.

With his love of Westerns, Randy has recently written “The Legend of the 6666 Ranch” which is currently being reviewed for production. He will continue his career in filmmaking while practicing architecture to support his “avocation” of filmmaking. His goal is producing films in Texas, supporting local filmmakers and actors.

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Soldier of God

4.5

Nov 3, 2006

A Knight Templar joins forces with a Muslim in order to survive

I watched this incredible HD feature at the Dallas Deep Ellum Film Festival (where it walked away with a big award) and was amazed that the filmmaker had pulled off such a huge film for a small budget. Filmed in California, Mir Bahmanyar somehow managed to transform a California desert to the middle east, but that transformation was second to the incredible transformation by Bill Mendieta into a Muslim fighter who harbors a deadly secret. At the completion of the movie, at first I was surprised by the ending, but realized the subtext of the story must be met (congrats to Bahmanyar and Kuhlen). Tim Abel's Knight Templar and Mendieta's characters dominate the story with an ease of slipping into the skin of such three dimensional characters. Mapi Galan, whom they discovered in Spain, helped develop the story into a rich depth with her beautiful and exotic Sohelia who mesmerizes the men who visit her tent and seem to alter their attitudes towards war. Neil Lisk's cinematography was exceptional and if you look at the crew you'll note that Mir Bahmanyar's name is all over the place, and this was due to his dedication of getting the story made and offered to the viewing public.

Il mio West

4.5

May 13, 2006

Two bad guys, one lousy good guy and one irritating kid.

Lousy excuse for a western. The protagonist is hard to like at all, and his Grandfather, Harvey Keitel as Johhny Lowden, is misused and colorless. The worst part of the whole script is how a tribe of Native Americans sit at their village and wait for the village news carrier come and tell everyone of the arrival of Johnny Lowden and then David Bowie's character (one of the worst characters I've ever seen). The village never does anything but be a sounding board and then parties after the bad guy is dead, and one must wonder why the hell do they care? When the town elder foretells the future of the two meeting, it's laughable. Guess why they call it a comedy. The town loon is a poorly developed character who looses a chance to be of much value except at the end. Even Harvey Keitel finds it hard to fake laughter at the conclusion.

The western genre is not dead, but this poor excuse for a story should have been a "pass" and never green-lighted.