Neal Hallford
Spring Valley, California, United States
Film Producer/Book Author/Game Designer
<p>I’ve been in the business of entertaining and educating people professionally for over twenty years. I was the a designer and writer on a number of critically acclaimed and bestselling computer games including “Betrayal at Krondor”, “Dungeon Siege”, “Champions of Norrath” and others. One of the stories I created became a Hollywood movie, and another was the basis for a New York Times Bestselling novel. In 2001, my wife Jana and I co-authored “Swords & Circuitry: A Designer’s Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games”, a how-to guide that is used as a textbook on college campuses across the U.S. In 2008 I was approached to develop a pair of cellphone games for the U.S. State department that are being distributed overseas as part of an official diplomatic mission. I’ve been blessed time and time again with fantastic opportunities to take people to worlds that never existed and give them memorable experiences. Now, once again with the partnership of my wife Jana, I’m now fulfilling a life long passion, to make a horror movie of my own.</p> <p>I first became a filmmaker as a kid after reading my first issue of Starlog’s Cinemagic. I nagged my parents into buying me a Super 8 camera and then proceeded to blow up every model kit I owned. I later attended the University of Oklahoma and pursued a degree in radio/television/film production. My first serious steps into filmmaking didn’t come until 2007, however, when Jana and I created an online documentary about the fans of the <span class="caps">CBS</span> television series “Beauty and the Beast”. The film not only helped raise a great deal of money for the American Cancer Society, but introduced us to a number of people who have now become our closest film making allies here in Southern California.</p> <p>After being laid off from my job in August of 2009, my wife and I vowed to begin work on a horror film idea that I’d been kicking around for a while. “Witch Creek” is the child of that idea, and we’re working very hard now to see the film to completion and distribution.</p>
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