Music on Bandcamp Music on Spotify Glows in the Dark! by Darling Pet Munkee You Better Believe It! by Darling Pet Munkee Sea-Monkeys, X-Ray Specs, and a necklace full of soil from Dracula’s castle are among the many bizarre items … Read More
Our friend Kellen Pembleton has a new music project called Auden Court. When he was planning the release of his 4 song debut EP, he asked if we would shoot a music video for it. We said yes, but only … Read More
I (Chris) have long suspected The Prisoner is a show with a particular appeal to creative people, and I love to be proven right. Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling is a Prisoner-inspired punk duo comprised of filmmakers/musicians/writers/creators/etc. Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein. When … Read More
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling (Sophia’s main songwriting project) covered the INXS song “Don’t Change” for The April Fifth Project. The April Fifth Project was created as a day to remember musicians who we’ve lost to depression/substance abuse/mental … Read More
Music video produced by Launch Over / Directed by & Starring Sophia Cacciola / Shot & Edited by Michael J. Epstein Bring Us Your Women EP: Catherine Capozzi and Axemunkee present: Hypatia, Leizu & Medusa by Bring Us Your Women Bring … Read More
Sophia and Michael dance as silhouettes in The Record Summer’s White Dress music video directed by the fantastically talented Bill Moldt Check out this info on the making of… New Album ‘Lay It Bare’ Available March 5th on Bodan Kuma … Read More
Launch Over Podcast: Episode 8 with Catherine Capozzi – October 9, 2020 Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein of Launch Over share insights into the creative process, discussing and analyzing the movies they watch and the movies they make. [ … Read More
Why Don’t Women Like Me by Drab Sophia played bass in a band in Boston called Drab. They just released an EP, WHY DON’T WOMEN LIKE ME, of lost material that was recorded in 2016 before Sophia moved to Los … Read More
Michael had the pleasure of working with director Izzy Lee and artist Watch Clark as editor for the “Consider the Titanic” music video. Backscatter Effect by Watch Clark
The title track and second single from the Alice Bag’s forthcoming record SISTER DYNAMITE out May 8th 2020 on In The Red Records. Available for pre-order at: www.intheredrecords.com! Crew Directed by: Marise Samitier Director of Photograhy: Sophia Cacciola Steadicam Operator: … Read More
Sophia and Michael are featured on the new Bring Us Your Women album, a project led by Catherine Capozzi. The album release also coincides with a film anthology, with a short film by one of 13 filmmakers from around the … Read More
We had the great pleasure of working with directors Michael Gill and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins to bring to life Jim’s Overseer KLARRG and his minions (portrayed by Mr. Mark Jude Sullivan). We handled lights and camera. Make-up artist Renae … Read More
Michael J. Epstein We shot a Hollywood guerrilla music video for City Bros! Check it!
Hot AF – GreatDaeg (OFFICIAL MOVIE) ProdBy DNMRKBOOM Directed by KellenPembleton ShotNEdited by Michael J. Epstein Featuring Mickey Faerch as Poe &Alexa Carreno as GothGirl Car courtesy E. John Damasco
I directed and edited this video for Dirty D and Sophia was the cinematographer. The song is about jealous people trying to tear you down, so we figured why not give a little taste of the monstrosity of those … Read More
Stream and buy the Clickbait score! Night Kisses – “Broken Heart” https://fanlink.to/bp68 https://leftbankmag.com/2019/02/21/sounds-night-kisses-broken-heart/
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Ucr4w3CHRZBMyXjLAPiIG We had a wonderful time working with brilliant singer-songwriter and American Idol winner Lee DeWyze to shoot a series of live music videos. Sophia was the shoot cinematographer. Michael was AC/b-cam op. This was the last song of … Read More
I had the pleasure of performing in Veronika Mindal‘s parody (above) of Olya Polyakova’s song (below) “Not like you and ex”– “not like you and beggar”
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Ucr4w3CHRZBMyXjLAPiIG We had a wonderful time working with brilliant singer-songwriter and American Idol winner Lee DeWyze to shoot a series of live music videos. Sophia was the shoot cinematographer. Michael was AC/b-cam op. Directed by: JOHN KVIKLYS Produced by: ANDREW … Read More
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Ucr4w3CHRZBMyXjLAPiIG We had a wonderful time working with brilliant singer-songwriter and American Idol winner Lee DeWyze to shoot a series of live music videos. Sophia was the shoot cinematographer. Michael was AC/b-cam op. Directed by: JOHN KVIKLYS Produced by: ANDREW … Read More
2017 was our first full year living in Los Angeles! Certainly a weird year in the world and that weirdness certainly seeped into our lives, but that did not stop us from having a productive year! One of the most … Read More
MUSIC We filmed the event and have posted a song from each set below! The Women of Rock Oral History Project launch party was a grand, sold-out success! PANELS Excellent, thought-provoking panels given by:
Check out the ever-talented Whitney Avalon‘s latest music video for the 80s news outrage throwback, “You’re Not Fooling Anyone!” We had the pleasure of helping out on crew on this video! We’ve worked with Whitney a few times before … Read More
Check out the ever-talented Whitney Avalon‘s latest music video featuring Maleficent singing, “Uninvited.” We had the pleasure of helping out on crew on this video! We’ve worked with Whitney a few times before as well, including on Princess Rap Battle … Read More
In addition to serving as the primary focus puller on the El Pelon Avila music video for “Asi La Fui Armando,” Sophia shot all of the second-unit material for the flashback sequences to the singer as a young child, selling … Read More
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling started out in 2009 as a vehicle for my songwriting. We decided to name the band and the songs after Prisoner episodes because we loved the show, and personally a lot of the … Read More
Hipster Ghost is a short film made for the Women in Comedy Festival Rachel Bloom Challenge. “Filmmakers were challenged to use an opening line of dialogue provided by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s co-creator, writer, and star Rachel Bloom – “YOU CAN’T DO THAT” … Read More
September 7 – 10, 2017 Alamo Drafthouse Winchester, VA Film lineup reveal on July 7! GENREBLAST 2 INDIE FILMMAKERS UNLEASHED!A raw and uncensored look into the world of independent genre filmmaking from the mouths of those in the trenches!Moderated by … Read More
Blood of the Tribades Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival November 4-13, 2016 Eastern Hills Cinema in Williamsville, New York Sophia and Michael will be in attendance! Monday, Nov. 7th at 9 pm Ticket Information We’re a festival highlight on Buffalo News! Coverage on … Read More
Blood of the Tribades won Best Feature (overall) at Imaginarium Convention! 2016 Imaginarium Convention – Imaginarium Convention Below is a complete list of Film Festival and Imadjinn Award winners for Imaginarium 2016. We extend our gratitude to all who participated … Read More
I’ve been hard at work over on my filmmaking tips site, The Filmmaking Fool. Here’s what we’ve covered recently: An interview with Jim McDonough of Friday Night Films. How did Jim get started making films? As the filmmaking fool, I … Read More
Blood of the Tribades at GENREBLAST Film Festival, Culpeper VA Friday, August 19, 2016 @ 11:59PM Screening Information We are incredibly honored to have won the award for BEST SCORE! (listen at Blood of the Tribades Soundtrack ) We were also … Read More
Boston Hassle Telethon – GIVE HERE Boston Hassle’s 1st Annual 24 Hour Telethon AND Performance Marathon!!! …featuring: Ben Hersey, Id M Theft Able, Sun Rad, Luxardo, LSDV, Mike Simonelli, Casey Crawford, The Trofessor, Coorain Devin, the Firehouse, Neil Horsky, Lankville Daily … Read More
We’ve recently had the great chance to do a string of interviews about our film and music endeavors. If you want to know more about what makes us tick and what we’re ticking about, here you go! And check out: … Read More
poster created by kristilyn-zombie romance Blood of the Tribades 2015 was the year of vampires! We spent much of the second half of the year shooting and doing pre-and-post production on our third feature film, Blood of the Tribades. Shot … Read More
We’re excited that we played at the Imaginarium film festival with Magnetic! Magnetic also won Best Direction and runner up in Best Genre Feature, Plot Development, and Character Development!!! TEN played there last year and we had such a lovely … Read More
We’re very pleased to introduce you to all of our Blood of the Tribades cast (film web site) over the next few weeks. The film is currently raising money for production on Kickstarter. photo by Robbins Studios Photography and Fine Art … Read More
We’re very pleased to introduce you to all of our Blood of the Tribades cast (film web site) over the next few weeks. The film is currently raising money for production on Kickstarter. Seth Chatfield as Grando (production still) with Zach Pidgeon as Berwick, … Read More
https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ had a great time playing Harlow’s Pub in Peterborough, NH. Friday, June 26th with NH’s finest rock band, Hug the Dog! We also celebrated our good friend, Seth Chatfield’s birthday, you can see him in this awesome music video … Read More
Photo Credit: Jonathan Beckley Now that TEN is out in the world, we wanted to check in with our cast and crew to see what they’ve been doing since we finished shooting TEN. 1. Looking back, what was your favorite … Read More
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We had a grand world premiere of Magnetic at The Boston Underground Film Festival! 3/29/15 at 12 PM at The Brattle Theatre. Facebook Event We’re also excited that films we helped out on in some capacity are also showing … Read More
An LP and black coffee start the day off for these women. They could be roommates, they could be sisters, they could even be the same person — yet they could not be further apart. Aloud’s music video for the … Read More
not a movie set scar! 2014 had its ups and downs… We managed to make a whole movie, Magnetic. We traveled with TEN at festivals and got distribution for it (will be out in April), and record some songs. … Read More
We’re very excited to have been included in the latest Boston Does Boston Compilation (The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library participated in the first go around of it covering Gene Dante and the Future Starlets and were covered by I-Pistol!). … Read More
Out today via a Vanyaland premiere is a music video for The Impulse Powers song, Knutsford that was shot by Michael and directed/edited by Sophia. The video was shot in the wilds of Knutsford, England (…oh wait, that’s just Waltham, MA) … Read More
Sophia donned her aviators and played a tough government agent for Earth Heart! from the band:“In this video, (Earth Heart) are caught on security camera breaking the rules like a couple of badass you’d run too… rock stars. The NSA was … Read More
Out today, a music video that we shot and edited for Anda Volley! We shot this in a few hours in the wilds of Cambridge one August afternoon: Read Anda’s blog about the video, excerpt: “Porcelain Dalya dances, making wavelets … Read More
We are very pleased to announce that The Color of Air, a weekly interview podcast hosted by Greg Massi, (Baliset, ex-Kayo Dot, ex-maudlin of the Well), has released an interview with us (Sophia and Michael). The Color of Air Facebook The … Read More
Sophia is very excited to have been invited to share some insights with the Women in Film and Video New England’s monthly meetup tonight at Park Restaurant in Harvard Square at 59 JFK street. 6:30PM-8:30PM. Are you ready for another … Read More