Joseph D. Wulczynski

Filmmaker, Actor, Assistant Director, Playwright, Producer, Screenwriter and Stage Director

Chewelah, Washington

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About Joseph

Joseph D. Wulczynski was born and raised in Southern California and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1980 and served in various positions and duty stations. He retired to Chewelah, Washington in 2002 and has tried to stay artistically busy ever since. He has been a prolific writer, enjoying knocking out scripts, short stories, novels, board games, video apps, and numerous misunderstood Facebook posts. He has been accused of using more letters of the alphabet than any one person should be allowed to use. He has written and directed over a dozen short films and worked on three feature films for InTo Deep Productions in Valley, Washington. All three films are currently being shown on Amazon Prime. He had great fun working as an extra on SYFY’s Z Nation. He wrote and directed the stage play An Adventure in a Small Town and directed numerous plays to include Harvey which won a local award. He is an original board member of Chewelah PACA which turned a local armory into the Chewelah Center for the Arts in 2016. His award-winning film festival, Chataqua Film Festival, was the first event held at the Center. He is currently a board member of the Chewelah Creative District, the second such district in Washington State. He is appreciative of the support he receives from the Spokane Film Project, the 50—Hour Slam staff, and enjoyed having nine of his scripts read by the Connection in Chaos actors. Two projects that had been placed on semi-hold are Chasing the Last Picture Show and Between Heaven and Hell: PAO (Purgatory Administrative Office) both projects he plans to drag into 2021 even if there is a Zombie Apocalypse. Due to the cancellation of Chewelah’s Chataqua, the Chataqua Film Festival was revised into the Chewelah Film Festival with the judging of films held on 17 April 2021 at the Chewelah Center of the Arts and short films from 9 local filmmakers shown to an audience of over one hundred at the Auto Vue Drive-in in Colville, WA. He is a teacher at Wellpinit High School on the Spokane Indian Reservation and has been married to Heidi Wulczynski (Stratmann) for 41 years. They have three children and four grandchildren. We shall not discuss the cats or the skunks.
PROJECTS:
Documentary
FACEBOOK: Chasing the Last Picture Show
Twenty years ago there were drive-in theaters scattered all over Washington State. In 2020 there are only five remaining drive-in theaters in our state. During the summer of 2020(21), we will travel by car and post a live feed of our trips to each drive-in theater. As we visit each theater, we’ll conduct interviews of patrons, owners, and distributors and through digital media record these last remaining icons of America. We will then encourage filmmakers to digitally capture their states’ last remaining drive-in theaters before they no longer exist so we may provide an online historical record for further generations.
Web-Series
FACEBOOK: Between Heaven and Hell: (PAO)
Purgatory Administration Office

Logline:

Between Heaven and Hell: Somebody has to make sure it runs straight.

Purgatory is the administration section between Heaven and Hell that assists the Incarnations; Nature, Fate, War, Time, Death, Love, Hate, and others as they conduct their day-to-day business. Seth is the overworked civil servant IT guy who has to keep things running smoothly due to cutbacks and Shannon is the receptionist who, well sits around and, waits. Occasionally Satan shows up to throw a monkey wrench into the works; however, God remains neutral and is never seen (He does correspond through e-mails). The first episode finds Seth trying to figure out the ‘system’ and War dealing with the theft of his egg salad sandwich from the communal refrigerator.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 10"

Weight:
220

Body type:
Heavyset

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Blonde

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Connecting in Chaos Table read of one of my numerous scripts

"The Ledge" My first produced stage play

Loglines

Road Tales Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror The road trip game that will give you nightmares
Between Heaven and Hell: Purgatory Admin Office Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy Somebody has to make sure Heaven and Hell runs efficiently or at least, try
Drop Zone Zulu Budget: $30M+ | Horror ⋄ War “Two years after the zombie apocalypse began; they dropped us into the middle. We didn’t care. We were bringing the fight to the enemy.”
Mr. Jesus Saves Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Drama In a town lost to hope, a mysterious stranger arrives. Is he the hope the town needed, is he the second coming? Or is he just someone as lost as the rest? The Second Coming: No one expected green eyes and blue jeans
Lawyers, Guns, and Money Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy They were working on a dream but needed to stop space aliens from harvesting cow anuses before they could allow those dreams to blossom.
LOVEDEATHANDZOMBIES Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy If Shannon Maple can just make it through the week of her younger sister’s wedding, a lawsuit, the assisted suicide of a mentor, a faltering grandmother, wild nights with her best friend, and the turmoil of a potential relationship, she just might find happiness.
Stoners vs. Zombies Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Comedy The meek may inherit, but stoners shall save the Earth
Stoners vs. Aliens Budget: $10M - $30M | Horror ⋄ Comedy Yep, the stoners are back and they are about to save your a** again
Stoners vs. Vampires Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Comedy The third time sucks!
Breakfast Across America Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy Two losers. A truck of breakfast items. A cross-dressed mob informant. Two hitmen. A little person, tall person tossing, drug dealer. A large bag of Mary Jane. A frozen dog. A silent ventriloquist doll. A cucumber. WTF?
Drop the Cannoli, Kill the Vampire Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Adventure Even for hitmen: sometimes the hardest target is the dreams you carry
Cash’s Place Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Comedy Living their American Dream: Even if they can’t quite get it right
A Day in the Life Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy We all have those days. For Alex West and his co-workers, their days consist of space aliens, Death doing a ride-along, integration of clowns, dealing with matter, and just trying to get along and enjoy life.
Phoenix River Rising Budget: $100K - $1M | Mystery ⋄ Horror The members of this community have more than zombies to worry about. A delightful mix between The Walking Dead and Desperate Housewives.
M*S*I*P (Messy Situation Intervention Program) Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy ⋄ Comedy What happens when ‘ghost whisperers’ become overwhelmed due to everybody dying with too many unresolved issues? Simple: Purgatory forms a new program designed to help people resolve their issues before they die, hopefully.
Bigfoot’s Bigger Bader Brother Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Comedy Just when you thought it was safe to be a hippy
Dead Nation Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Mystery “We f**ked up our predictions of the future!” Statement from the Secretary of State 2031 before committing suicide
Moments of Randomness Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy ⋄ Comedy The story of a writer struggling through the process of life and authorship. Is he going crazy or did his imagination just get away from him?

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Credits

Z Nation (2014 - 2018)
Television by Asylum Extra Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the United States of America a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Snapped
Film by INTO Deep Productions William Nelson Chris Miller An abusive pig farmer meets his match in a young boy who survives beatings and starvation to strike back and escape. But the farmer isn't the only one who pays, a small North Western town is about to learn the powerful consequences of the negligence and terror all around them.
Fire Worms
Film by INTO Deep Productions William Nelson City Councilman Just recovering from the horrifying events this small town has recently experienced and barely getting over the loved ones they have lost. The locals are once again terrorized by the nightmare that they once thought was over. Only this time it is out for blood, revenge and no longer human, mutated into a horrifying gruesome creature like none that has been seen before. What once was the sweet boy named 'Johnny Campbell' is now something to fear as the worms burrow through his body he becomes what is surely a walking nightmare from Hell.
Rum Runners
Film by INTO Deep Productions William Nelson Marshan Rum Runners is the epic story of two best friends, Vic Hanson and Don Calyer. They get caught running illegal booze across the Canadian border. This outstanding screenplay is inspired by actual events. This story promises to have you entertained, and the topic of many conversations for years to come. Vic and Don escape through a hail of bullets and car crashes that will leave its viewers breathless. After their heart stopping escape, they resort to flying a biplane over the US/Canadian border full of illegal rum, thus the name "RUM RUNNERS". They anger a local moon shiner named Tiny, who has known ties to Al Capone and the Chicago mob. Tiny proves to be trouble for them. After Vic and Don's plane is shot down by Tiny, Tiny then foils a second attempt that leaves Vic's girlfriend dead, now the hunter becomes the hunted and Vic will stop at nothing to get Tiny and his goons and paid off corrupt Government agents. The stage is set for the climactic ending that will leave our viewers pleasantly exhausted, wanting the adventure to continue.