No Budget Media Mogul Tells All In New Book

Online, June 17, 2010 (Newswire.com) - For Immediate Release:

Before YouTube, before FaceBook, it was DIY zines, vhs video and public access TV.

And from 1991 to 1993, Kelly Hughes did the impossible: he wrote, directed and edited Heart Attack Theatre, a weekly suspense anthology for local cable television in Seattle, WA. And all in his spare time while working a full-time job.

From there, he ventured out into features. The experimental film festival favorite TWIN CHEEKS: Who Killed The Homecoming King? And the camp-fastic blood feast La Cage Aux Zombies. And he shot it all on a home video camera, edited the old fashioned way without a computer in sight.

In his upcoming book I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE DRAG QUEEN, Hughes provides an analog account of a no budget media mogul in the DIY 90s.

"I can't believe how much has changed in twenty years," says Hughes. "Today's young filmmakers have YouTube, and broadcast quality camcorders, and point and click computer video editing. In 1991, we did everything the hard way. It was crude and clunky with lots of glitches. But we laughed our heads off and had the adventure of a lifetime."

Publication Date: 10/10/10
ISBN: 978-0-9767369-2-9
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