Crazy Parkite Production’s short film THE WRITE STUFF has been accepted into the 2008 Park City Film Music Festival, which runs concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival, January 17th through the 27th.   

The WRITE STUFF, a children’s movie aimed at kids age 11 and up, is about a 12 year-old who wins a writing contest More…

During the Rhode Island International Film Festival last August radio host Toni Pennacchia of SpoilerAlert Radio (http://spoileralertradio.com) interviewed Crazy Parkite producers Billie Harsch and Stacy Dymalski about their short film THE WRITE STUFF.  You can catch Billie and Stacy’s interview online Thursday, October 11, at 8:30 a.m. EDT http://www.893wumd.org  More…

A first draft of the previously untitled screenplay of Mark Eaton’s journey into the NBA is finally done.  Now using the working title RIDING THE BENCH, the screenplay tells the story of how Mark went from being an auto mechanic to an NBA center and shot blocker in four years.  More…

The short film THE WRITE STUFF, produced locally by three Utah companies (Lectric TV, Crazy Parkite Productions and Saffire Productions), was very well received on August 12th by Providence audiences at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, where it premiered. More…

Lectric TV, Crazy Parkite Productions, and Saffire Productions are pleased to announce that their joint production, THE WRITE STUFF, a short film that premiered August 12th at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, has been accepted into the 2007 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.  More…

Crazy Parkite Productions is proud to announce the short film THE WRITE STUFF has been accepted into the 2007 Rhode Island International Film Festival, August 7th through 12th, in Providence, Rhode Island.  A co-production with Saffire Productions and Lectric Pictures, THE WRITE STUFF stars local actors Nate Sears, Kim Page, Billie Harsch, and Derrick Dymalski, and was produced by Salt Lake filmmakers Bryan Baird, Jo Richardson, and local Parkite Stacy Dymalski. More…

On Monday, April 9, 2007, the Los Angeles Times ran a great story about local former starting Jazz center, Mark Eaton, and the film Park City-based Crazy Parkite Productions is making chronicling his rise from basketball bench warmer to NBA record-holder.  You can read the article in its entirety at: http://www.7ft4.com/press/latimes-04092007.pdf.  Written by L.A. Times staff writer Jerry Crowe (in the Crowe’s Nest column of the sports section of the Times), Crowe focuses on the inspirational angle of Mark’s story and how everyone can learn to succeed if they just don’t give up on themselves.  Mark relays this same message in his popular keynote speaches.  For more information on Mark’s public speaking (and how you can book Mark as your next speaker), go to http://www.7ft4.com/.

We’ve made it into the big time!  In the Beat section of the February 8, 2007, issue of Sports Illustrated writer Adam Duerson notes that the currently untitled Mark Eaton film project is moving forward.  Calling the movie “an oversized underdog flick” (I like that label — thanks, Adam) Duerson asked me who I’d like to see play Mark.  More…

The National Basketball Retired Players Association’s website “Legends in Basketball” has picked up Steve Luhm’s Salt Lake Tribune article on the film project for the currently untitled Mark Eaton story.  Included in the piece are some great pictures of highlights from Mark’s career.  Check it out at https://www.nbrpa.com/news/featurearchive/eaton_movie.aspx. 

NBA sports staff writer Steve Luhm of the Salt Lake Tribune covered Crazy Parkite Productions’ currently untitled Mark Eaton film project story in the December 24, 2006, Sunday edition of the Salt Lake Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, go to http://www.sltrib.com/jazz/ci_4895297.  All though you can’t tell by reading it online, the article appeared on the front page of the NBA Sunday section (Section C) of the paper. 

As of Wednesday, December 27, 2006, Matt Watson of NBA Fanhouse on AOL Sports picked up the Tribune story and posted “The Mark Eaton Story: Coming to a Theatre Near You” on http://nba.aolsportsblog.com/2006/12/27/the-mark-eaton-story-coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you/.  Also Deadspin Sports News posted “Some Casting Director has Their Work Cut Out for Them” at http://www.deadspin.com/sports/mark-eaton/some-casting-director-has-their-work-cut-out-for-them-224586.php.  Check it out!

And finally, screenwriter/director/producer Stacy Dymalski spoke this morning (at 8:45 a.m.) about the Mark Eaton project with Blair Feulner on KPCW radio in Park City, Utah (KCPW radio in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Evanston, Wyoming).