Omnes Filmshas a goal.
Our mission is to fill a void in modern cinema, says its website.
Lund, says Taormina, was always like the crazily prodigious cinematographer.
Tyler Taormina and Carson LundGetty/Alex Neher
Everyone was very intimidated by this man.
Lund signed on as DoP, and Omnes was born.
In college I made a short film calledOmnes.
Christmas Eve in Miller’s PointOmnes Filmes
And so, we started to tag our films as Omnes Productions.
And then we said, You know what?
We should make this a real thing.
So, we rebranded from Omnes Productions to Omnes Films.
We wanted to really make it a cinema collective.
Were not an official company, in the sense that we dont have an LLC or anything.
To us, just a symbol of our friendship, our collaboration.
This was some years ago now, and it deeply moved me.
Its too heavy for me to watch my family when we were all so much younger.
That was when the idea of making a Christmas movie came to him.
Once I had that, I knew it would be the way to go.
The option of using Christmas music was just an absolute no.
That wouldve been a real cringe-worthy move.
So, it was kind of a cheat.
We shotEephusfive months before Millers Point, he recalls.
I wroteEephuslargely during the pandemic, over Zoom, with my two co-writers, Mike Bassa and Nate Fisher.
Most of Lunds career has been as a cinematographer and an editor.
Id made short films, but Id never written many screenplays, he says.
I play baseball, and I play in a Sunday League, like the one depicted in the film.
The directors were taken aback when both films made it into Cannes.
I mean, we dont want to look like were trying to corner the market!
But it happened, and were thrilled and a little surprised, for sure.
Films that have a kind of different tone and vision.
