{"id":67,"date":"2010-02-22T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"elijah-drenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/02\/22\/elijah-drenner\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Drenner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in the Midwest, END Films founder Elijah Drenner discovered in cinema an escapism that has since gone unmatched.&nbsp; Raised on a steady diet of movies that\u00e2\u20ac\u201dperhaps\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhis parents should not have let him watch, Drenner has defied High School Guidance Counselor predictions to go on and actually establish a career.&nbsp; During his college days in Minneapolis, Drenner took work\u00e2\u20ac\u201dunpaid\u00e2\u20ac\u201don an ambitious, no-budget, sci-fi spaghetti western called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endfilms.com\/planetfall_dvd.html\" target=\"iframe\">PLANETFALL<\/a>. The every-other-weekend job would last the next four years, beginning in 2001 with Drenner working his way up from sound recordist to supporting actor.&nbsp; The film was released on DVD by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hereticfilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heretic Films<\/a> in February of 2007.&nbsp; Some viewers got it, some didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, but the tight-knit crew and DIY approach to storytelling stuck with the young filmmaker after he moved to Los Angeles in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrival, Drenner convinced friend and mentor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thefilmsofjackhill\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Hill<\/a> (director, COFFY, SWITCHBLADE SISTERS) to allow him the chance to make a documentary on Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endfilms.com\/spider_baby_dvd.html\" target=\"iframe\">SPIDER BABY<\/a>.&nbsp; Hill knocked around the idea for a while and discovered that he could re-license the film with a new and improved High-Def transfer, and include the proposed documentary on the DVD.&nbsp; Drenner explains:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153THE HATCHING OF SPIDER BABY documentary emerged from my proposed project on Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entire life and career, but I faced that daunting fact that all young filmmakers face when trying to convince investors:&nbsp; I was a filmmaker they did not know, trying to make a movie about a filmmaker they did not know. My efforts bordered on futile.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the &#8220;HATCHING&#8221; gig worked out, and Drenner has since continued his work on DVD supplemental projects\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith a penchant for offbeat and otherwise non-categorical films.<\/p>\n<p>With Jeremy Kasten, Elijah hosts the Tinseltown Tarnish series of favorite cult films that capture vintage Los Angeles locations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-67\" data-postid=\"67\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-67 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in the Midwest, END Films founder Elijah Drenner discovered in cinema an escapism that has since gone unmatched.&nbsp; Raised on a steady diet of movies that\u00e2\u20ac\u201dperhaps\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhis parents should not have let him watch, Drenner has defied High School Guidance Counselor predictions to go on and actually establish a career.&nbsp; During his college days in Minneapolis, Drenner took work\u00e2\u20ac\u201dunpaid\u00e2\u20ac\u201don an ambitious, no-budget, sci-fi spaghetti western called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endfilms.com\/planetfall_dvd.html\" target=\"iframe\">PLANETFALL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}