PROJECTS
since 2008, Breakwall and its team have partnered with highly-respected production companies, including NAE Films, Spacebrain Entertainment, TinyCore Pictures, Fringeelement Entertainment, and award-winning director Alex Kahuam, to create films and PROJECTS that have been seen by audiences around the world.
FAILURE! (2023)
As his father’s business is in the throes of bankruptcy, a man with a dark past confronts an existential crisis. given one hour, he must choose between financial ruin or murder to protect his family.
Failure! is an 87-minute, single-take, crime thriller / comedy, Written and directed by Alex Kahuam, produced by Marco de Molina, starring Ted Raimi, and associate-produced by Daniel Kuhlman.
The film screened at numerous, prestigious film festivals, including: London Frightfest, Morbido, Talinn Black Nights, and Cannes – Fantastic Pavilion Galas.
“Mexican bad boy Alex Kahuam, director of Forgiveness, brings us Ted Raimi on top form if Failure!, shot in one single take.” – Bloody Disgusting
“Ted Raimi thriller ‘Failure!’ snapped up for American distribution at Cannes market by Red Water entertainment.” - Variety
Failure! will have North American theatrical release in Q1 of 2025.
RED LIGHT – PROOF OF CONCEPT (2020)
On Halloween night, an aspiring social-media influencer and his Gen Z friends face living hell when they are abducted by two serial-killer brothers on the hunt for any who betray their twisted, bloodthirsty version of justice.
Written by Alex Kahuam and Daniel Kuhlman, directed by Alex Kahuam, produced by Marco de Molina, and starring Ted Raimi, the Red Light – Proof of Concept screened at 70+ film festivals, including SITGES, BIFF, Morbido, Grimmfest, and Telluride Horror Show.
“A dark and twisted masterpiece... RED LIGHT touches on real horrors such as homelessness, selfishness, vanity, kidnap, and murder...” – Horror Buzz
“You watch it and you’re craving more and you’re wanting to see a whole feature out of this.” – Dread Central
ROSE WHITE (2012)
Fantasy meets crime thriller. In a desperate attempt to protect her mentally-ill sister, a struggling young woman teams up with a small-time drug dealer to take down a ruthless crime boss.
Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Snow-White and Rose-Red," Rose White pits dark reality against an even darker fantasy, in a world where there are no happy endings.
Written and directed by Daniel Kuhlman, shot by cinematographer Jeremy Kuhlman, and starring Deneen Melody and Erin Breen, Rose White screened at numerous festivals, including: Eerie Horror Fest, Chicago Underground (Audience Choice Award), and others.
"It is not the well-designed and at times noir-ish plotline that makes Rose White such an exceptional and memorable piece of film. What lingers is an overall sense of sadness and emotional involvement that ties the scenes together and makes each of them indispensable." - Screen / Read
"With the cinematography alone, Rose White is a work of art in motion - a poem animated, painting its metaphors vividly for all to see." - Space Jockey
THANKS MOM (2010)
When two aspiring filmmakers accept their mother's offer to finance an independent feature film, their artistic vision runs headlong into their mom's conservative, wholesome values.
Thanks Mom is an uproarious comedy about art, filmmaking and a couple of Momma’s Boys.
Written by Daniel and Jeremy Kuhlman, directed by Daniel Kuhlman and James Errico, and shot by cinematographer Jeremy Kuhlman.
Thanks Mom screened at numerous festivals, including: Moving Pictures festival, Chicago International Reel Shorts, Chicago Underground Film Festival (Best Short Nominee), and the Los Angeles Comedy Festival.
"Filled with subtle acting and well-timed comic delivery, the end result is one of the funniest bits on film production I have seen yet. If like me you love films, or you yourself make films, this is a must see… just leave Mom at home!" - Killing Box
"Art and life work together here… A tribute to light family-friendly films of the 1950 such as those Doris Day Rock Hudson comedies.” - ChicagoCritic.com
JACOB IN THE WILDERNESS (2009)
After the death of his father, a young man has a chance meeting with an unlikely mentor in a local laundromat. forced to stretch his emotional boundaries, He finally faces his grief, unresolved relationship with his dad, and what comes next.
This story about coming to grips with loss proves that answers can sometimes be found in the most unlikely places, and that anyone sitting in a laundromat at 2am with one shoe on has a story to tell.
Jacob in the Wilderness was produced by Breakwall Pictures and Fringeelement Entertainment, written by Daniel and Jeremy Kuhlman, produced by Daniel Kuhlman, shot by cinematographer Jeremy Kuhlman, starred Daniel Kuhlman and Chicago-theater-legend Richard Cotovsky, and was directed by Jake Perry.
The film screened at multiple domestic and international festivals, including Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival, and several others.
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