Hello all,

Not sure if you saw this, but a movie I co-wrote, co-directed, starred in, etc, has been finished and is on its way to the internet in just 13 short days. That’s right! You can view Cat cat Productions’s new short film, The Brat Snack, this month, on Saturday, August 20! Don’t miss the newest trailer, able to view below:

If you’re looking for some clarification, look no further! What exactly is “The Brat Snack”? And did the voiceover guy pronounce “brat” it like “braaht”, as in short for “bratwurst”? He did indeed! But going back, what is The Brat Snack? The Brat Snack is the sixth food-pun-titled movie by Cat cat Productions (Cat cat Productions is the creative collaboration between myself and filmmaker Ralph Blanchard, and the food-pun successors are Honted Dog, Apple Die, U.PH.O., Salmonrai, and Yeehawbanero). As with the past three films, a particular genre or director’s style is tackeld. U.PH.O. was our riff on the 1960’s science-fiction film, while Salmonrai was a Kurosawa-inspired action fantasy. Yeehawbanero dealt with habanero bullets and also took some time for Leone-style drawn-out epicness. The Brat Snack jumps through time to the 80’s, and clashes together John Hughes’s Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club, with a fair bit of sausage thrown into the mix. Instead of taking place in a normal high school, we’re at the The Sausage Arts Academy of America. And, really, why shouldn’t we be? You ever seen a film taking place at a Sausage Academy? I sure haven’t. Such is the originality you can only find at Cat cat Productions, the home of pho-powered spacecraft and talking salmon masters!

This is impossible to tell from the trailer, but I can tell you from being there through the entire process that this is our most impressive filmic feat to date. Up until now, our longest movie was 17 minutes. This runs for 15 minutes longer. This film had the longest script and was also the most complicated, edit-wise. It’s also the most expensive. A song was written exclusively for the opening of the film. Lyrics were written to online-sourced tracks, real performers on Fiverr were objected to my vocal demos. Careful consideration for the colors and look of the film was taken. Visual effects were executed and sent back and forth via WeTransfer to make shots perfect. An older computer huffed and puffed with the live rendering of the multitudinous filters. The Brat Snack had it all.

And the good news is you’ll get to see it all in under two weeks! I’ll post again when the film releases.

Thanks for reading, hang tight, and don’t forget the caraway seeds!

-C.P.