Jason Eisener

bWbhen Jason Eisener was growing up Dartmouth Nova Scotia was littered with pawnshops which served as a gold mine for a young horrorscifi obsessed fan emerging filmmaker Spending his time wetting his appetite on any genre movie he could find it wasnrsquot long until he decided to buy a video camera Eisener soon began creating his own films with high school becoming his testing grounds quickly he realized that he wanted to entertain people through film for a living He went on to enroll into the Screen Arts program at the Nova Scotia Community College where he learned every aspect of the film industry which helped prepare him the world for his 60minute zombie action thriller emFist of Deathem which played to a sold out audience at the the citys Oxford Theater in 2003 His next effort made on a budget of 300 was the 45minute emThe Teeth Beneathem It went on to surpass any of his expectations selling out its premiere at The Atlantic Film Festival The Coast Magazine recognized it as best local film and it put Eisener on the Chronicle Heraldrsquos 2005 honor roll for having such contribution to the art scene in Halifax In 2007 Jason Eisener collaborated with Rob Cotterill and John Davies to make the fake trailer emHobo With a Shotgunem which went on to win the SXSW Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse Trailer Competition With itrsquos huge following support Alliance Atlantis distributed the trailer theatrically and it screened in 186 theatres across Canada along with Robert Rodriquez and Quentin Tarantinorsquos film emGrindhouseem The trailer became the basis for the feature length version released 4 years laterbrbrbr