The film marks actress Sharon Savene’s first outing as a writer; she will also star. Her past films include The Soloist and Dead Air. She also can be seen on the Web series Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles and Star Trek: Odyssey.

Missed Conception, directed by David Betances, is scheduled for a March 2010 release on the Internet.

WHAT IF the Right One turned out to be very, very wrong?

Love Minus Zero is a short film about a peculiar couple on the verge of breaking up and the hapless restaurant patrons who suffer the fallout as internalized tensions break free.

Writer-Director P.K. Eiselt, a graduate of UC Santa Barbara’s film program, describes the motivation behind his project:

P.K. Eiselt

THERE IS A RUSH, almost a panic, to find the “right one,” or face a destiny of being unlovable. … The threat seems more acute in the gay community, where options are limited … a sort of desperation that sets in, especially in the over-30 crowd.

Blue Seraph is now in pre-production for Love Minus Zero. P.K. has received script consultation from Carlos Pedraza (Judas Kiss, Blood and Fire). We have also been assigning crew, including Director of Photography David Berry (Blood and Fire, The Child). J.T. Tepnapa (Begging for Change, Drag Queen Heist) will be line-producing the project. Blue Seraph will also handle production meetings and casting at its Los Angeles production office. If you have any interest in contributing to Love Minus Zero, or any of our projects, please contact us.

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New production space always needs fancy accessories! New desks, a new Macbook, fridge, interns, and of course a new Blue Seraph Web site.

Our new Web site gives both Carlos and me opportunities to be infinitely more creative. For myself, I’m not only helping budding filmmakers, I am also opening our doors to coaching actors. There is nothing more enjoyable that helping actors find new discoveries in the subtext of a script. You can see more about coaching under services.

Currently, we are consulting on three projects in development, a gay vampire story set in Amsterdam, Love Minus Zero, a short film about a peculiar couple on the verge of breaking up publicly, and a play revival of Steel Magnolias. If you have any interest in producing any of these stories please contact me.

And with that, welcome! Stick around and enjoy the view or join us in helping talented filmmakers produce great stories at Blue Seraph Productions.

A homeless teen (Brandon Larcom) struggles with dangerous choices from the fateful flip of a coin.

In Begging for Change, two universes diverge from a single random coin toss in this dramatic short about desperation and redemption. Living out the aftermath in parallel but intertwined stories, a homeless teen rejects the aid of a handsome jogger, only to continue to live hungry and abused on the streets; in an alternate timeline, the coin flip leads the same boy into the arms of that same jogger, but with significantly different consequences. Will either path lead him home?

Back again at Q-Cinema, Begging For Change won the award for Best Dramatic Short Film. Making a departure from J.T.’s usual comedies, Begging for Change tackles deadly serious subjects.

Festival Director Barb Lee, says “J.T. refuses to let us shut our eyes when the going gets rough. Nor does he allow us our comfortable queer ending. With Begging for Change, J.T. has proved he is more then just the director of gay lifestyle comedy films. He has become an artist of film, able to reflect to us reality whether it is absurd and laughable or serious and important.”

Watch the Begging for Change trailer

This 12-minute film was released in 2006 and is available for purchase on the Begging for Shorts DVD.

DESPERATE TIMES call for desperate measurements. Bobby (J.T. Tepnapa) and Jared (Dennis Garcia) work out their relationship troubles while committing robbery.

Another festival winner, Drag Queen Heist picked up Best Gay Short Film at Q-Cinema, Fort Worth’s Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, and was a semifinalist at the NowCasting Film Festival.

Drag Queen Heist is an action-comedy about the desperate attempts by two hopeless romantics, Bobby and Jared, to make some quick cash by robbing a local bank. Jared comes up with an “infallible” plan for the pair to rob the Second Fidelity Bank … in drag.

Regrettably, Jared’s boyfriend and co-conspirator, Bobby, is anything but infallible. Each step Bobby takes is a step in the wrong direction. Watch these two as their plan unravels like a cheap weave!

Watch the Drag Queen Heist trailer

This 19-minute film, released in 2004, is available for purchase on the Begging for Shorts DVD.

JEEPERS! Billy (Adam Browne) gets sound advice on self-loving from the eminent Dr. Sigmund Winston (Travis Michael Holder).

One of the funniest shorts of 2002, Masturbation: Putting the Fun into Self-Loving became an instant classic in the world of independent short films, winning multiple festival awards including PlanetOut’s Best Comedy Short.  Featured in documentaries, sex education classrooms, and part of TLA’s Men’s Mix One, Masturbation has taken on a life of its own.

This 1950s-style mockumentary chronicles the teachings of Dr. Sigmund Winston, who with the help of his trusty young sidekick, Billy, teaches the students of America’s Innocent Age how to put more excitement into self-loving.

Boys from the local YMCA, along with hilarious retro visual aids, give the audience a simple and wacky, step-by-step approach to the joys of masturbation.

This 8-minute film is featured on the Begging for Shorts DVD, available for purchase.

Love is not easy for Devon (Greg Nabours) and his boyfriend, Alex (J.T. Tepnapa).

Sunflowers is the story of a gay teenager, Devon, trying to find the right boyfriend.

Devon and his new beau must learn about communication, intimacy, quarrels, and forgiveness.

Although Devon gets loving support from his best friend, Sara, and his mother and father, his parents still have the same fears that every parent has about first dates. Sunflowers is an enchanting, tender film about growing up gay in contemporary American society.

Originally a 25-minute short film for independent film festival screenings, Sunflowers is now available for purchase in its never-before-seen original director’s cut on the Begging for Shorts DVD.