Way to Go, Jon!

Review of Fine, written/directed by Jonathan Buiel, from seacoastonline.com

Matt is such a girl. In a good way. Kind of. He is sensitive and insecure and a bit needy. He just wants to please Cameron, his beautiful wife of one year. He’s afraid of her, he says, because she could have anyone. And she chose him. And he doesn’t get why. On their anniversary night he musters up the courage to ask how his lovemaking performance was (he can’t work up the nerve to say “sex”). She says “fine,” which launches his extreme attempt to get her to feel he’s awesome, great – anything but fine. Simple but clever 14-minute film written and directed by Jonathan Buiel, whose name will return. So will the producer of this film, Daniel Vang. Good team.

Review of "Put Him in the Ground", produced by Jonathan Buiel, from seacoastonline.com

Jonathan Buiel and Daniel Vang are back, this time as producer and writer/director, respectively, of this serious drama on the morality of violent lyrics in rap music. Aspiring rapper Marcus wants to be a positive role model for his younger brother. But he also wants to make enough money to care for both of them and get out of his job as a cleaner. He’s a neighborhood star, but in order to get to the next level, he needs to stop rapping about positive things and start rapping about guns and violence and all the edgy stuff that sells. The 15-minute film explores that Catch-22 in an impressive, mature and sensitive way.