Drama Garage
staged a reading of
Steve's award-winning
script, "Killing Dennis
Nolan" on Wednesday,
June 29, at the Women's
Club of Hollywood.

Dances With Films
premiered Steve's
short, "Overqualified,"
at its 2005 festival on
May 7 in Santa Monica.

"...Overqualified has that
perfect true-life feel to
it...It's great."
—Filmthreat.com

View "Overqualified"
Press Kit Online.

 

About Us  
 
  Bootstrap Productions is the trio of Alex Dalton, Steve Fardys and Nathan Price. The company was formed to combine our creative talents and allow us the freedom to experiment with different projects and roles. Each member supports each project in a different capacity, allowing us to learn filmaking from the ground up, from script to final credits.  

 

What We've Done

Here's a quick list of what we've done as a team. To see clips from some of our shorts, go to the clips page. If you want to know more about us than what's on this Web site, please contact us.

  • Paradise Lost
    Full-length stage play, a cyberpunk rendition of
    Milton's poem written by Nathan and directed by Alex.
  • Oops There Goes My Halo
    An evening of music and free-verse sermons.
    Non-denominational.
  • Southern Rain
    A series of three plays about the South, written and
    directed by all of us and our friend Mary Beth McNulty.
  • Mama's Boy
    The first short film on which we worked as a team under the direction of our friend Keith Page.
  • Stradiv
    A short film by Alex.
  • Evolve
    A short film written by Steve, directed by Nathan and blessed by the ghost of Soren Kierkegaard.
  • Bout
    A short by Alex, currently being re-edited.
  • Personal Business
    A short by Steve, also the first act of a feature-length screenplay.
  • Everybody Loves My Baby
    A long-format short by Nathan.
  • PBR spec commercials
    Just what it says, by all of us.
  • Overqualified
    Another short by Steve, which, though a self-contained
    story, could also be the beginning of a feature.
  • Twinkie spec commercials
    More specs, which will feature animation by our friend Chris Ball.


And you can go here to see our future plans.

 

 

 

 

The Bootstrap Hypothesis

The Bootstrap Hypothesis, originated by nuclear
physicist Geoffrey Chew, denies the existence of fundamental constituents of matter. In fact, it accepts
no fundamental entities whatsoever — no fundamental
laws, equations or principles.

If there are no fundamental laws to which our existence
is tied, different ideas that contradict each other are
not necessarily mutually exclusive.

In other words, as long as a thought, idea, emotion or
story is complete in and of itself, it does not need to
agree with any other thoughts, ideas, emotions or
stories in order to be "right."

What the hell does that have to do with making movies?

If a storyteller is not tied to preconceived rules,
forumlas or loyalties, he is free to create anything.