Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Cameron Duncan. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Cameron, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

The most meaningful film that I’ve worked on was a short called The Ant. The story goes like this – three men sign up to participate in a research experiment where the goal is simply to avoid an ant in a house for 24 hours. I directed it and made it along with my creative team, So Good Productions. We are all childhood friends and have been pursuing filmmaking together as we’ve grown up over the last decade-plus. The Ant was the final film we made in Colorado, where we grew up and where our love for film and creativity blossomed. We shot it about a month before moving out to Los Angeles, and it was bittersweet to cap off that chapter in our life with one of our biggest films yet. It is also an incredibly meaningful and personal project to the writer, Zachary Bakken. The story deals with exploitation and manipulation in a psychological experiment, set through the lens of a horror or psychological thriller tone. Zach is a horror fan through and through, and his day job is in the clinical psychology world, helping special needs students. This film has also become our most important business-wise. We spent almost a full year editing and refining it, and on October 11th, at the historic Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, we were fortunate enough to enjoy its world premiere at the ‘Sundance of Horror,’ the Screamfest Horror Film Festival

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I am a writer/director and Head of Production at So Good Productions. So Good Productions is a creative collective – we work symbiotically and release films under its banner. That’s the goal as we grow – to release big budget, theatrical films under the So Good Productions banner, films that we have conceived of and executed. For now though, it’s four of us, and we all fall into unofficially official roles – I have directed all of our projects, Zachary Bakken typically writes and produces them, Ethan Nelson produces and stars in them, and Jeff Steele acts as a casting director as well as an actor in our films. Zach, Ethan, and I grew up together in Colorado. We have been making videos and films since we were 10 years old, and I like to think that our three brains operate as one creative one. We have been fortunate enough to add Jeff Steele to the collective this year – we have collaborated with him for years and we all mutually agreed it was time to officially bring him on, and his addition has been a very welcome and important one.

We prefer genre films – horror, coming of age, neo-western, psychedelic, are just a few that we have made. I think that operating within a familiar genre allows our unique voice to come through. We have lots of scripts in many different genres – right now our goal is getting them in the right hands in order for us to bring them to life.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Truthfully, it has been being able to share a creative journey with my best friends – Zach, Ethan, and Jeff. We always talk about how fortunate we feel to have each other along for the ride and how we feel that makes us unique in a very saturated landscape. It’s not always smooth – we can argue like brothers – but it makes the process feel that much more rewarding.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

How long movies take to get made, and in turn how long it takes for careers in this business to truly take off. The Ant, for example, is a 16-minute horror short film. We filmed it in June of 2024 and weren’t finished with editing until March of 2025. After waiting around for festivals, we don’t end up premiering it until October of 2025, 16 months after we wrapped filming. And that’s just a short – we have a script written and are developing the feature-length version of The Ant, something that we’re prepare to consume years of our life. It’s all worth it, and I actually think it makes things more rewarding and forces you to pick projects that you really care about, but I don’t think that the average person understands quite how much work and time goes into making a film.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.sogoodproductions.org
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sogood_productions/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SoGoodProductions

Image Credits

Grayson Reed