Cagesafe Productions
Cagesafe Productions is the moniker we attach to our films. Under Cagesafe Productions, we shoot low budget films, from feature films to short films to web series, and we also indulge in other forms of story telling, i.e. comic books and fiction, which we hope to feature on the site soon.
Evolution
After several years of writing scripts and not knowing what to do with them, I starting producing to get the scripts off the hard drives. We shot our first short film under the Cagesafe designation in New Orleans in July 2005, The Amazing Mr. Hammer. This was shortly before Hurricane Katrina cleared the city. After a few weeks of moving around, we ended up on a farm in Kansas with several of the key crew members. Here, we edited the short film, and decided that we would shoot a feature upon returning to New Orleans, optimistic about the city's return.
Since it has been a shooting extravaganza.
We are now based in Baltimore.
Team
Miceal Og O'Donnell - writer and director
Post Coast Guard, Miceal lived in New Orleans for ten years, where he made micro-budget features and short films, shot a short film in Berlin, and taught acting and screenwriting workshops. He moved to Baltimore, MD with Eileen in 2011.
His films have played at several festivals, including the Maryland Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Nights on the Fringe, L.A. Shorts International Film Festival, and the Baltimore International Black Film Festival.
In 2015 he won first place in the Baltimore Screenwriting competition in the feature length screenplay category, and in 2017 won second place, and in 2019 third place in the same competition. In 2018, he was awarded a grant from the Baltimore Filmmakers Collective to make a web series, and was a finalist for the 2018 Baker Artist Award. In 2019 he was awarded the MSAC Individual Artist Award.
Eileen O'Donnell - cinematographer
Eileen O'Donnell is a ceramic sculptor living in Baltimore, Maryland. She studied art and English literature at Saint Joseph's University (B.A. 1995) and received a B.F.A. in Three Dimensional Fine Art from Moore College of Art and Design in 2000. Between all-nighters at the clay studio, she also studied Film at University of New Orleans and took a week long intensive cinematography workshop at Kodak in Rochester NY. She takes her art background to the camera as she often works as cinematographer when she is not in front of the camera.
What is next
Up until Blue Light - the web series, we have been chasing the old model of distribution exclusively. Blue Light was our experiment in dropping content directly in front of an audience.
While we will continue to pursue the festival circuit, we enjoyed cutting out that middle leg of distribution, and have since begun to develop several web series.
Thank you for checking our our work. We look forward to bring you more content!