Friends of TEN is our blog series briefly highlighting fundraisers and projects that are associated with independent film, particularly genre film. If you love exploitation films as much as we do, go check out the Kickstarter campaign for The Ungovernable Force, a … Read More
MAGNETIC Kickstarter-reward lipsync goes out to kickstarter backer, Joe Renken! Starring Allix Mortis it’s Danzig‘s “Mother” !!! Lip-sync was shot by Kelly Davidson on the set of MAGNETIC! Find out more about MAGNETIC at: http://magneticthemovie.com/ Amazing pods built by KTRON! Check out our other … Read More
We had a great time at TEN’s Maine debut at the very first Sanford International Film Festival (SIFF facebook)! JCStarzzPhotography The Sanford International Film Festival is dedicated to entertaining the members of its community by providing a platform for the works … Read More
We’ve been very busy at Magnetostatic Systems! We had three full evenings of just shooting monitors and dialogue. Luckily this was set up at Epiola-Caccistein headquarters where it stayed for two weeks where we could keep coming back to it! … Read More
Playlist of all of our 48 Hour Films: This was year three of https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ participating in the 48 Hour Film Project! The latest addition to our Los Locos trilogy is LA LOCA BOCA! You can read our recaps and watch … Read More
behind-the-scenes photo by Kelly Davidson MAGNETIC lipsync goes out to kickstarter backer, SARAH WAIT ZARANEK! Starring Allix Mortis it’s Hall and Oates’ “Private Eyes” Also, as trivia, “Private Eyes” was not the song Allix actually danced to, the original song … Read More
Even as a young boy, I remember being extremely bothered by the attention given on the news to murderers and other violent criminals. I watched my friends beam with excitement when they happened to be in the right place at … Read More
Michael and Sophia are very excited to take Charles Dickens down a notch or two; and will be presenting a video to that effect! handbills! Monday, May 12th! Oberon!Weird Love Productions presents: The Literary Roast Did school assignments about Edgar … Read More
Go “like” the On The Town with Mikey Dee facebook page! OTTwMD plays local Boston music and is on every Wednesday from 9pm-Midnight and almost always features a live band around 10:30 – it’s on 91.5 WMFO – https://www.wmfo.org/.Send your CDs to the … Read More
You might all remember the Somerville Ogler from Darling Pet Munkee‘s “X-Ray Specs” video! Our wonderful ogling performer needs your help! https://www.facebook.com/TheJennyPiFund Hey Everyone!As many of you know, I’ve been struggling with some pretty severe medical challenges for the last several … Read More
http://www.curvemag.com/Review/Film/No-One-Is-Who-They-Seem-Not-Even-You/ What makes this movie stand out? It’s a slasher flick, and so much more. There is the play on identity as there is more than meets the eye for each and every one of them. Appearances can be – … Read More
MAGNETIC’s latest lipsync goes out to kickstarter backer, CHRIS MARCH! Allix Mortis as Akon and Sophia Cacciola as Snoop Dogg in “I Wanna Love You” Lip-sync was shot by Michael J. Epstein and Kelly Davidson with tech help from … Read More
An Easter of fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll. EMERALD COMETS CREATUROS
Bubbles in the Think Tank is an awesome radio show that happens Saturday nights at 11pm on WMFO 91.5FM. This is year three of Bubbles in the Think Tank presenting a record about records for Record Store Day. The previous two … Read More
We’re super-excited to join Rob Potylo on his new radio show, The Rob Potylo Entertainment System on the brand-new radio station WEMFRadio today 4/18/14 at 5PM! It’s an internet station so power up your laptop! We’re going to play a … Read More
FAT is an independent, locally produced film with a rocking soundtrack that also boasts all Boston-local bands. FAT premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it makes its Boston premiere at Independent Film Festival Boston! “Powered by an utterly … Read More
Last weekend we shuffled into the Sound Museum in Allston for a full day of shooting. And, if you’re wondering, yes, drummers are playing paradiddles at 9AM on Sunday morning. ALL IS RIGHT IN MUSIC. Luckily, we weren’t trying to … Read More
this is serious business. here I am pre-gaming with a vegan donut! This past weekend was a total whirlwind and we had the most amazing time premiering TEN at both the Brooklyn Girl Film Fest and the Boston Underground Film … Read More
“Imagine Scream crossed with The Usual Suspects…The art comes with meticulously framed shots full of color, the enjoyment with puzzling out the crazy plot twists.” – Boston Herald “…a Clue-esque, genre-mixing murder-mystery at a haunted mansion…with enough themes and tropes … Read More
MAGNETIC‘s Allix Mortis lip-syncs to Mott the Hoople’s “All the Young Dudes” with a little help from Production Assistants: Maggie Maraschino, Zach Pigeon, Catherine Capozzi and co-Producer/Director, Sophia Cacciola. This song is dedicated to MAGNETIC Kickstarter supporter, James Groshon ParkerLip-sync … Read More
D-Tension’s Secret Project CD release party featuring The Secret Project Band. Aaron Perrino of The Sheila Divine: Ad Frank Jason Dunn of The Luxury Liz Enthusiasm of Freezepop Kerri Ann Richard of Apple Betty Vanyaland interview with D-Tension collaborators – Boston … Read More
TEN was very fortunate to have some help during shooting with feeding our 17 cast and crew on location for eight days! on the road to the set of TEN! Snack Factory sent us huge boxes of Pretzel Crisps – … Read More
Sophia & Michael hard at work 2013 was a weird and wonderful year of many projects of the film and music variety. Here is the past: 2012 Review – 2011 Review Before we get started, we made a few year-End Lists/Summaries: http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2013/12/30/bostonemissions-favoritesoftheyear2013/ http://trainwreckdsociety.com/2014/01/ … Read More
Michael and I are very excited to have been asked to be a participating artist in the next Liars and Believers’ show, INTERFERENCE. We’ll be creating a short film/music video for a The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library song about … Read More
This Summer, we had the pleasure of taking part in the filming of a film competition TV pilot called UNCUT. A little coverage from Wicked Local! Essentially, four teams went through three elimination rounds during which they were given groups of … Read More
Go “like” the On The Town with Mikey Dee facebook page! OTTwMD plays local Boston music and is on every Wednesday from 9pm-Midnight and almost always features a live band around 10:30 – it’s on 91.5 WMFO – https://www.wmfo.org/.Send your CDs to the … Read More
Debuting over at BoingBoing today is our brand-new music video for “Episode 15: The Girl Who Was Death.” It’s the second The Prisoner recreation we’ve done (“Episode 1: Arrival” was a nearly-identical recreation of the opening sequence) – this time … Read More
MAGNETIC (2015) Teaser psychological sci-fi film produced/directed by Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein, Starring Allix Mortiscinematography by Kelly Davidson “DARK2LIGHT” by Night KissesMAGNETIC Movie Soundtrack Preview by Night Kisses LIKE MAGNETIC ON IMDB:
The very end of December saw our first four days of shooting for MAGNETIC! The main goal of this shoot was to film most of the exterior and long driving scenes. On December 28th, in one normal car, we stuffed: … Read More
MAGNETIC‘s Allix Mortis lip-syncs to Van Halen’s “Panama” This song is dedicated to MAGNETIC Kickstarter supporter Sooz! Happy Birthday Sooz! Lip-sync was shot by Kelly Davidson on the set of MAGNETIC. Find out more about MAGNETIC,
One of our TEN Kickstarter rewards was for Michael and Sophia to write a short song about you. Fred Boak was the only one to take us up on this reward, but after hearing this ode to Fred the Valet, … Read More
Sophia’s Rock Beat! I’ve been doing this for 4 years now – going to shows, and videotaping them. Here’s 2010 (saw 139 local bands in 2010), here’s 2011 (saw 170 local bands in 2011), and 2012 (saw 158 bands in 2012) In 2013, for various … Read More
https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ (The Michael J. Epstein Miracles on Ice) is very excited to be the house band for The Encyclopedia Show SomervilleMonday, October 14, 2013Davis Square Theatre255 Elm St., Somerville, Massachusetts 02144|7:00pm until 10:00pmFacebook Event Our theme for the show will … Read More
We only have infrequent open casting/crew call opportunities for film and video projects, but we get a lot of inquiries about how to find out when they opportunities arise. We do often post them on our blog (and on Facebook), … Read More
I moved to Boston back in 1998 and despite my current rule about refusing to participate in any activity that involves moving the lower half of my body in sync with music, I used to actually like dancing. In 1998, … Read More
flyer by Daykamp Creative I missed most of this show, but showed up just in time for some Sidewalk Driver and Freezepop and some photos with GLAMTA!!! photo by Joe Renken! SIDEWALK DRIVER! FREEZEPOP!
The 9th or 10th Annual Boston Christmas Cavalcade for the Homeless at Johnny D’s on 12/12/13 at Johnny D’s https://www.facebook.com/events/1409026175999070/ Sophia and Michael will be performing 2 songs from their …Celebrate the Holidays work. Sophia and Michael Celebrate the Holidays! … Read More
Awesome artwork by Tyler Littwin Boston does Boston (Facebook) is a startup benefit series, wherein the city’s vast, diverse pool of musical talent comes together to re-imagine and re-record each other’s work for charity CDs and live events. (Read more about … Read More
cast photo by Rachel Leah Blumenthal Molly Devon, who played the real-estate investor in TEN, is on a new MTV reality series called GENERATION CRYO. The show premiered November 25 at 10/9c! Tonight, Episode 3, which features Molly, debuts! MTV has … Read More
We are so excited that USA Today’s POPCANDY blog premiered our brand-new Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling music video for the song “EPISODE 10: LIVING IN HARMONY” The entire video was shot at 5 Wits “Espionage” immersive adventure at … Read More
A trio of seasonally appropriate songs for this week that we wanted to share with you again! Shift Your Shopping (full story)As customers, we are about to collectively spend a large portion of our annual shopping budget between Nov. 1 … Read More
official Triptych poster designed by Ian Adams! We had a great time performing on 11/14 at Oberon as part of Catherine Capozzi‘s Bring Us Your Women project. Bring Us Your Women is: “An homage to women, divinity, and the pursuit of freedom will be … Read More
This will be the last live performance of Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling for ~9 months or so while we finish up the last four songs in our Prisoner epic, make as many more music videos as we … Read More
Episode 10: Living in Harmony I know you want to lay down and sleepuntil you don’t wake upI know you want to lay down your bodyfor an idea that’s made up it would be easier, it would it be clearif … Read More
Sophia and I have long dreamed of making a full album of holiday songs for the more neglected holidays – Flag Day, Arbor Day, etc. We’ve been gradually working on this project, including a Black Friday song, a song about … Read More
DOUBLE RELEASE PARTY RECAP! 11/15/13 at TT THE BEARS, Cambridge MA! We had the most amazing time releasing our new singles, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK and sneak-previewing our new music videos at TT the Bears last Friday! Do Not Forsake … Read More
I assume this happens to lots of us, but this honestly makes me a little sad. I’ve reached the point where I just can’t respond to all of the emails I get. I really like helping people out whenever I … Read More
Bring Us Your Women is now running a Kickstarter campaign to put together a film anthology and album!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/catherinecapozzi/bring-us-your-women-a-film-anthology-album-perform?ref=category_location EVE artwork by Kristilyn – Zombie Romance We had a great time performing last Thursday at Oberon as part of Catherine Capozzi‘s … Read More
Triptych presents three performances that uniquely integrate theater, video, dance, art, and rock! NOVEMBER 14TH AT OBERON. Michael and Sophia have been working for many months with John Langton of Porcelain on a 3-part short film/set of music videos exploring … Read More
Our new double single for the songs, “Episode 10: Living in Harmony” and “Episode 15: The Girl Who Was Death” made their debut over at the Boston Herald’s GUESTLISTED today! They said, “DNFMOMD returns with a pair of singles that add … Read More