Welcome, traveler. You’ve reached Quigley Films, a mystical and wondrous place. A place where filmmakers dwell, lurking primarily in the general area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Clarence Center, New York. Exciting.
So have a look around, but don’t touch.
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Just kidding, click whatever you want.
Feel free to check out some of our work, or our reel below.
Well why don’t you just sit your little tush down and take a gander at our latest and greatest work, the music video for our favorite hard-rockers Pollock!
This video was an incredibly fun shoot that took place in record time up in Buffalo, NY: hometown of the band. With the original concept proposed by the leader of the band, Josh Klein, we were able to get to work quite comfortably with the set up the band gave us. Shot in Broadway Joe’s, a frequent venue for the band, we were able to bring to life a colorful cast of sad and desperate souls trapped in the clutches of the Devil himself in his very own establishment.
Absolutely check out the beautiful cinematography of Richard Hamilton and the most excellent performances of band and actors alike!
And if you like what you hear, give the video a “thumbs up” and hop on over to their pages here or here!
Logo design by Six Shot Studios
We are pleased to officially announce our next big project: Gun of the Outlaw!
This project is an original webseries; an action-packed, episodic adventure about a pair of modern-day outlaws trying to make it big. We are currently developing a 10-episode season and hope to produce a pilot episode to pitch to larger distributors such as Hulu, Netflix, and the like.
So what’s it all about?
Our hero, Jet, is a natural gunslinger and he knows it. In fact, he knows it so well that he was born in the wrong century. Clinging to an old-west mentality, he has chosen the same path as his great-great-great grandfather: to become an outlaw. And after a wicked turn of events with his own gang, the Dead Eyes, he has no choice but to hit the road with his old accomplice and friend: a big business-minded con man named Niko. Together the pair set out to start a new gang and live the outlaw dream, meeting a colorful cast of fellow outlaws, crooked cops, and deadly bounty hunters along the way.
So when can we expect it?
Right now we are in the very earliest part of pre-production. We are starting our campaign to get funding for the pilot episode. It may take some time; we really want to do this one right, and to do our best requires a fair chunk of change! So we will be meeting with investors and seeking out support and contributions from wherever we can find them. If you or anyone you know are interested in funding a project like this, please get in touch! We will be offering financial incentives and potential returns in exchange for significant investments.
So what can we do?
Just keep your eyes open for updates on our progress, and get in the mood for a fun gun-slinging adventure! Watch some classics. And of course if you or anyone you know is interested in investing or donating to our cause, watch out for upcoming kickstarters, promotions, etc!
This is going to be big for us, folks. A story on a much larger scale than anything we’ve done before! So please stay tuned and stay classy!
Hello there, folks, and happy first year of the post-apocalypse!
Writing you from our studios in not-so-sunny Philadelphia, it’s time for an update on what we are doing right now and what will be coming your way pretty soon! It’s about to get interesting, so hold on to your butts.
Currently we are working hand in hand with Traverse Pictures and Anonamerican Films to release a teaser trailer for their film Mass Effect: Serenity. It’s a really cool Mass Effect fan film that should display a lot of excellent effects and make ME fans very happy! I can’t really divulge much about the plot at this point, but you should definitely take a look at their page and watch out for our trailer very soon!
Additionally, we have just cut together a quick album release promo for our good friends Pollock of Western New York. They’ve put a lot of work into their first full-length album, and the work has shown! If you’re into mysticism, rocking out hard, and a little bit of magic, you will definitely want to check these guys out. At any rate, watch the trailer for their album and see if you like what you hear!
On top of that, we are currently talking with the band about doing another music video for them. You may recall the video we made for their song, Mr. Phoenix. Lots of fun, and the most creativity we’ve been able to inject into a music video so far! Well it looks like we’re going to have another go at it with their new song, Devil. Hopefully we’ll be entering production by the spring and will have something cool for you soon!
Beyond that, we are also about to enter editing for the short film Altered. If you didn’t catch our updates previously, Altered is a short about a scientist who is part of the first team to develop a zombie virus, and the toll it takes on both her psyche and her body. I had the pleasure of directing this film produced by Teaspoon and Pound Media, and the production went super well. Now with the editing ready to go you should be able to see this film pretty soon, and we will be sure to let you know when and where it’s coming out.
Lastly, we’ve been developing plans for our next big project: the modern western webseries. If you haven’t been to our facebook page to check out some of the early concept art we posted for it, you should definitely take a look. We will be making a more complete announcement with some details about the project in a few days, so stick around to learn more about the next big thing in Quigley Films history!
That’s about it for now. Thanks for stopping by, we’ll see you again real soon.
This quick-and-dirty film is a love letter to the film noir style. This moment in time encapsulates a meeting between two ill-fated souls and the hard decisions they face. Starring Frank Brückner and Nick Groch (both featured in Assassin’s Creed: Generations), this one is sure to tickle your taste buds for more. Though the film is cryptic, both actors knew the backstory of their characters and precisely what they were talking about. But that’s a mystery you may never get the answers to…
Originally filmed in early 2010, this is the first time the movie has been available on the web. A prequel to the previously successful “16mm Blood Opera”, this piece also filmed on 16mm tells the tragic tale of Leon, a hitman trying to keep an eye on the business of killing and ensure that those who die are truly deserving of it. But when he takes a last-minute job and things take a turn for the worse, his partner Ben is left with a taste for vengeance.
So… It’s been a while. We’ve come to accept that. And we hope you have to.
But now it is time for us to return to you and your computer monitors, TV screens, and mobile devices like a giant flaming bird that never dies!
What have we been doing? Cooking ideas in a pressure cooker and trying to make money, mostly. Over these past many months we’ve been gathering resources by working for other people, and all the while we’ve been formulating the concepts for our next projects. Time flies when you’re having fun, so this year has slipped by pretty quickly. But it should pay off in the next few months as our new projects take off the ground.
What’s coming? The ingredients we’ve thrown into the pressure cooker should yield the following dishes: One original web series, one feature film, and one short film. All unrelated courses in a delicious meal that should blow your palette away and make you rethink eating anything else ever again. But we’re always vague about these things, it seems. So let’s give you a few more details to get you excited.
The web series we have in development right now is a modern western. It should consist of ~10 minute episodes and ideally run for a ten episode season. We’re currently in the writing process and are looking forward to a lot of exciting adventures and hopefully wider distribution.
The feature film is, of course, Spectrum. This is a project that’s been in development for a long time now, and it’s just one of those slow-moving trains. Features are a huge investment of time and money and it will take a bit more of both before it really starts to pick up any speed. But right now we’re in revisions for the script and are hoping to have a finalized version in the next few months and then go into finding investors.
The short film is a new thing; a more serious film we’re interested in producing and taking to the festival circuit. The script, written by Jon Anderson, is a heavy dramatic piece that questions human nature, faces death, and pulls visceral twists that will get you thinking. Needless to say, we’re excited about it.
Hope you’ve enjoyed this glimpse into the future, and forgive us for our brief hiatus! Expect more frequent updates soon. It’s time to put the pedal to the metal and make some movies.
This is a (sort of) historic occasion!
As of early this morning (1? 2? WHO KNOWS!) Quigley Films has produced its first ever feature-length screenplay. For those of you who don’t know, feature-length means it’s real movie size. In this case, probably around an hour and a half. It’s a lot of writing (I got 99 pages but a bitch ain’t one…?) but man does it feel good to be done! Of course this is only a first draft, and many many revisions are on the horizon, but this is an important first step in where we plan to go in the near future. To a theater near you.
So what is it?
Spectrum. Some of you may be familiar with a short film we did about a year and a half ago by the same name (if not, hop on over to our SPECTRUM page!). This short film will actually serve as a great marketing and fundraising tool for us down the road when we’re looking to generate hype and investments. Think of it as a teaser trailer to the main event. Like that Bane origin story thing for the Dark Knight Rises! It’s there to get you excited for what can and will come from a full feature-length story.
So what’s different about it? A lot, actually. The short film uses some of the same characters and the same world, but the feature film goes much deeper into the interesting universe of Spectrum. It introduces many more characters, explores more places, and involves a lot more action. It’s a dark film, and it investigates some of the emotions and turmoil that we humans go through, painted on a sci-fi backdrop in a dystopian world. Shifty old black market dealers, arrogant drifters, malicious scientists, free spirits, and jaded cynics come together in an epic story that teaches how to stand up for what’s right and follow your heart.
We’re in the very early stages right now, but consider this the beginning of a very long campaign to one day make this script into a real feature film. We have a lot of work to do, and it will probably take years before this project really takes off. But keep your ear to the ground and your eyes on our webpage as we start to involve YOU, our lovely fans in the journey of a lifetime.
