Paul used his long experience as a photographer to set up each shot. ‘I was keen to frame it perfectly.’ He used post production techniques to reinforce the mood of the film; fresh spring like colors for the opening scenes, bleached for the hot bitter years and the ending? ‘You’ll have to see the film to find out,’ said Paul.
Thursday 3 October 2013
In an effort to promote the Southampton International Film Festival and his own film, Strong Arm of the Law, at the Festival, Paul Vernon was invited into the BBC South Studios to have a chat with South Today host Sally Taylor.
The short film picked up an award at the Festival and was to pick up more awards at local festivals and competitions with the crown being ‘Best Western’ at the Jerome Film Festival in June 2014.
While in Arizona he made another short with Adam Gold—Send Me Your Smile: A Desert Monologue. This picked up the coveted ‘Rising Spirit Award’ for the most inspirational film of the Festival at the Jerome Indie Film and Music Festival in September 2015.
Paul was now bitten and simply had to return to the ‘wild west’ to make a short feature.
Vermijo was born.
Photo Gallery
Ace (Hayden Wilson) ponders his unhappy marriage to wife Eve (Sarah Berg)
Mrs. Tucker (Heather Woods) watches Ace patrolling Vermijo.
The oldest and deadliest of the Lockhart brothers,
and the one who calls all the shots – Jim (Adam Gold)
Ace Lockhart (Hayden Wilson)
The youngest Lockhart, Carl (Tyler Burke)
Eve Lockhart (Sarah Berg).
Life with Ace was anything but easy.
Luke Tyler (Noah Woods) rides into Vermijo.
Luke stops off for a nice, quiet beer. Big mistake.
Ace is spoiling for a fight.
A fist fight that ends in death.
But he gets more than he bargained for.
Owner of the local saloon, Bob Miller (Jay Gammons) saw the whole thing.
Frank Tyler (Raymond Scott) isn’t about to let anyone hurt his grandson.
Jim goes gunning for the man who killed his kin.
Jim explains the facts of life to his prisoner.
‘Why fetch me all this way just to hang me?’
‘Well, Tyler, it’s like this…’
‘I’m the man your brother there left for dead.
I’m the man whose grandson you’re fixing to hang.
But most of all, Lockhart, I’m the man who’s gonna burn you down.’
There’s nothing Carl likes better than shooting people
Comes the final showdown, Frank Tyler’s all out of mercy.
VERMIJO
By Nelson Hunter
Copyright © 2017 by Nelson Hunter
Images from Vermijo © 2017 by Nonrev Studios
First Smashwords Edition: September 2017
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