We recently connected with Scott Hale and have shared our conversation below.

Scott, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Do you wish you had waited to pursue your creative career or do you wish you had started sooner?

Honestly, I think it depends on who you ask in our little production company!

This year, Kristen, our sister, officially joined Halehouse Productions as a partner,. While Kristen has worked with us in some form or fashion across all of our features, her heart always been in Special Effects. You don’t have to watch out films for very long to notice the high quality of her work, but for her, that doesn’t change the fact she wished she could’ve gotten started with creative career sooner to hone her craft and learn from her mistakes, as well as her impressive accomplishments.

Kameron feels differently: Having been so immersed in film and filmmaking (Yes, we’re county our crappy shorts shot on crappy cameras) for so long, he doesn’t see not starting his creative career sooner as time wasted, but as a natural development in the path he’s taken towards realizing his voice and vision.

As for myself, I could go either way, but the fact of the matter is this: It doesn’t matter. I am where I am, and I got here how I did. it’s easy to get caught up in what might’ve happened and what could’ve been if I only had just done this or that, but at the end of the day, that doesn’t get me any closer to where I want to go. Our foray in filmmaking is a culmination of all our wants, interests, and personal experiences, and it all came together organically; and because of all those things, I think our projects are better for it.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

Halehouse Productions is a Cincinnati-based, sibling-founded film production company that was established in 2021. Since then, we’ve produced two feature-length films, Entropy and Free to a Bad Home. Both films have found Domestic and International Distribution, with Entropy being represented by Gravitas Ventures and Free to a Bad Home by Terror Films, and have experienced success in their markets. While we specialize in Horror, our interest is truly in Cinema itself.

Currently, we are in filming our next project, Leave This House – a haunted house story with a unique, classic horror aesthetic and a disarming twist you will not see coming. And writing those last few sentences, how could we not be proud? To have launched and completed several productions anyone in the world can watch? It was incredibly challenging, but not impossible, and that leads me into our pitch:

Though we have primarily focused on our own projects, we have reached a point where we are beginning to branch out to provide services for others. Halehouse Productions is a three-person crew, meaning among all of us, we all have had to become experts in every facet of filmmaking, from pre-to-post production (screenwriting, directing, editing, special effects, original music, color correction, mixing) to distribution itself.

Be it for consultation on a screenplay, editing work in your chosen platform, or you’re down a Director of Photography on your last day of shooting, Halehouse Productions is ready to help you bring your next project, big or small, to life.

Have you ever had to pivot?

As filmmakers, you have to be ready to pivot at any seconds. Regardless of how carefully you plan out your days, you can never account for everything.. Every scene takes an incredible amount of thought and set-up, and you have to know your production and its crew inside and out, because at any moment, any one of those scenes go wrong. Be it from freak weather, or an actor falls sick, or the gag you’ve set-up just refuses to pump blood the same way it did a hundred times before, something can always go wrong. But that doesn’t mean the final product is going to be compromised, less than what was intended. Often times, the unexpected, or a surprise restriction, breed creativity. But you have to be open to it, to see it for what it is, and trust in your artistic vision and sense to be able to pivot productively and positively. Because if you don’t, not only will your project suffer, but so will others perceptions of you. As a director or head of your department, you’re a leader, someone who others look up to and trust their time, career, and passion into it. And if you can’t handle a simple fact of life – that not everything goes our way – your production will suffer for it.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I think Kristen speaks for all of us when she says her mission in life is to create and learn as much as she can about the dark arts.

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