Four new film festivals to announce for the music video, “Let Me In”. I was the Cinematographer for director Matt Schutt. You do so much work that just disappears out there. It feels good to see something that you and a lot of other talented people worked very hard on get an audience around the [...]

The wheels of fate are turning and there is much to speak of. Much to contemplate. Much to prepare for. But for now I leave you with only this commercial I shot recently for director Behnam Mokri. Hope you like it. – Staley Out

Been kicking this around for a while. In my head that is. Finally got around to spitting it all out. Putting it down. Making it real. I think its about 95% done. I’ll be tweaking it for the next week or so. Taking suggestions. Letting it grow on me and figuring out what does and [...]

So this one is for my Mom. She gets impressed by this stuff. I stopped into the Academy of Country music yesterday for some brief business and as soon as I walked in it was, “Show Ben, show Ben!” Someone pulled out their (The ACM’s) magazine, highlighting the show I helped em with a few [...]

Completed And coming soon…

The festival run for Let Me In continues. Below you will find a complete list of all the festivals so far. The cool thing is that it’s going to be in LA’s own Dances With Film Festival in June. This is cool because a feature I shot was in the festival last year. So this [...]

Almost done with two projects I directed. Long gestating projects. Painful at times projects. Should be done in the next week. And it’s gonna feel very good. And then on to the next one. I am also working on a new website and I was going through a bunch of production photos (there are many) [...]

A few weeks back I posted about Let Me In, the music video I shot for director Matthew Shutt. Well, Matt submitted the video to a slew of festivals and darnitt all if a couple don’t already wanna show it. First up is the Fearless Film Festival in Fortworth Texas on April 8th to the [...]

I shot a couple fashion commercials for director Benham Mokri last weekend. Ben is a visionary talent and great to work with. He’s also a good friend. This is a still taken from the Red One in between takes. Good times.